In my country we commemorate the victims of the Nazi regime which I fully support. I think this is very important our country has made horrible crimes in the past. However it reminded me of something. If we discuss whether assisted suicide shall be implemented the religious-conservatives often bring this argument: Assisted suicide is comparable with the Nazi crimes because they have seen some people as unworthy of living.
I think this is an extremely cynical, immoral and horrible comparison. It is quite evil and rotten to make this comparison. It is a huge difference if someone wants to die or not. And if the same people suffer horrible pain they are the fastest one on a trip to Switzerland. I have religious relatives. They vote christian-conservative but I think one person of them once admitted in case someone bad happens she would go to Switzerland. Yeah and for me who has no money this is no possibility. This is extremely cynical. For me this is insulting the people who were killed by the Nazis. Still they feel morally superior. Yes especially the people who make this comparison feel very much morally superior.
It is a pretentiousness to compare the pain of people who were brutally killed with people who beg for a dignified death. It disgusts me always when I hear that argument. People in extreme pain beg for decades to die. These cases exist. And then comes a person who has not any clue what they are talking about and tell the person such a bullshit. How shall the person feel when he/she begs for assisted suicide? Like someone who wanted to cooperate with the Nazis? Are you kidding me?
And to add one thing these really people exist. I have argumented with pro-lifers who made exactly this comparison. But there is a spectrum of this comparison. Some use a different wordings or want to imply that if we give someone assisted suicide we convey the other person to be unwanted or not worth of living. But even these interpretations are pretty much bullshit. That is why the term euthanasia (Euthanasie) is very seldom used in my country because this was the term which the Nazis used as a euphemism to kill innocent (often disabled) human beings.
I think this is an extremely cynical, immoral and horrible comparison. It is quite evil and rotten to make this comparison. It is a huge difference if someone wants to die or not. And if the same people suffer horrible pain they are the fastest one on a trip to Switzerland. I have religious relatives. They vote christian-conservative but I think one person of them once admitted in case someone bad happens she would go to Switzerland. Yeah and for me who has no money this is no possibility. This is extremely cynical. For me this is insulting the people who were killed by the Nazis. Still they feel morally superior. Yes especially the people who make this comparison feel very much morally superior.
It is a pretentiousness to compare the pain of people who were brutally killed with people who beg for a dignified death. It disgusts me always when I hear that argument. People in extreme pain beg for decades to die. These cases exist. And then comes a person who has not any clue what they are talking about and tell the person such a bullshit. How shall the person feel when he/she begs for assisted suicide? Like someone who wanted to cooperate with the Nazis? Are you kidding me?
And to add one thing these really people exist. I have argumented with pro-lifers who made exactly this comparison. But there is a spectrum of this comparison. Some use a different wordings or want to imply that if we give someone assisted suicide we convey the other person to be unwanted or not worth of living. But even these interpretations are pretty much bullshit. That is why the term euthanasia (Euthanasie) is very seldom used in my country because this was the term which the Nazis used as a euphemism to kill innocent (often disabled) human beings.
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