The Belgian euthanasia juggernaut continues to cut a terrible swath. Now, a woman was euthanized shortly after she learned her daughter was dead. From the news.com.au story:

Five minutes after Simona de Moor heard her daughter had died from a heart attack, she decided she wanted to end her life, too. The 85-year-old mother, who was considered healthy by doctors and was not taking any medication, made arrangements to be quietly put to death.

What is really astonishing to me is that a journalist would watch, and merely report, about something this evil and wrong. Reporter Brett Mason said:

“I have no doubt Simona wanted to die that day. But I can’t help but wonder if she’d feel the same in a few months when the initial shock and pain of her daughter’s death has lessened.”

Exactly. This was a heartless, profound abandonment of a suffering, despairing woman. We are devolving into a world in which the only thing that matters is consent. No morals. No ethics. No righteousness.

This isn’t how assisted suicide/euthanasia starts. But it is where a society goes, fueled by the high octane of human logic, once that culture accepts killing as an acceptable answer to human suffering.

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Cross-posted at Human Exceptionalism.