PLATFORM : Where Does It Stop?

There’s a great pressure on the elderly that they are a tremendous burden on society; they’re a physical burden, they’re a financial burden, and they’re being made out to feel guilty for being alive if they’re not productive. And I think a lot of these people are feeling pressured that if they’re lying in a bed, then they should be dead. And a lot of them are pressured to go ahead and say that they want to be killed. When we say it’s OK for someone to kill themselves, where do we stop it?

It will also lead to killing those people that are not considered beneficial or productive. Even these people who say they want to commit suicide, you have to wonder, if they were cared for, if they were loved, would they still be seeking suicide?

You get someone with Alzheimer’s disease, and they say they want to be killed. Are they even in their right mind to say that they want to be killed?

What is a society like when it’s OK to kill people because they’re not wanted?