April 5, 2005

Various creepy people on the Left have been torturing the English language lately to make their Death Culture more palatable to the general public, most of whom prefer to life. First with the Schiavo case, now with the Pope: they market death as if it were another lifestyle option.

Selfish twerps, the public. Don't they know it's very expensive for them to go on living? Don't they know that seasides, wetlands, and highlands are much more scenic if you take away the people? Social Security would be just fine, if only the public would stop living.

The Left's worst abuse of the language is their pap about a "right to die." A tyrant can withhold one's right to vote. A Supreme Court can withhold one's right to be born alive. But no one, not even Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid, can turn away the Grim Reaper. Death comes whether you're ready or not.

Humanists want to be as gods. This is why they want to dole out death, usually God's prerogative. But they have yet to find a way to dole out life, which is another thing our Creator does. They're working on it, via human cloning, but they haven't gotten there yet. The best they can do for now is to try to usurp God's authority over death--or at least pretend they have.

There is no "right to die" because everybody dies and there's no way to prevent it. There's no need to rush out to meet death. God will call you in His own good time.

More blather, courtesy of George Felos--"the death process." This is pure poop, an attempt to sugar-coat the simple word "dying." It's like calling a used car "pre-owned." The only thing missing here is a disclaimer rattled off too fast to be understood.

Then there's "death with dignity." They think everyone aspires to be Socrates in the David painting, gesturing grandly as he hoists the cup of poison.

Even Our Lord Jesus Christ prayed that "this cup," the crucifixion, might pass from Him. But he also accepted the will of the Father, and went to the cross as a voluntary sacrifice for our sins. He didn't sugar-coat it, He never pretended it was anything but painful, scary, and grim.

We can, like Pope John Paul II, choose to be dignified when we confront death. We can always choose to do so, without any help from the Hemlock Society.

Let them market death among themselves, and leave the rest of us alone.

Lee Duigon