Saturday 16 April 2011

Bye bye Grandad.

 

Schools are showing kids a film on assisted suicide. There is much gnashing of hair and rending of teeth over this because there are those who believe this will encourage their children to stick their heads into gas ovens and send their gas bill through the roof.
No, no, no, silly parents. They are not training your kids to kill themselves. They are training them to kill you.
When you are old and infirm, unreasonably insisting that a fraction of all those pension contributions you paid in is now paid out, costing the taxpayer and the NHS money and being a burden on your family, your children will know that it is perfectly okay to 'help' you die. How can you possibly be enjoying life with unlubricated joints and unironed skin? They have pitied you as you wheeze your way up six flights of stairs and shaken their heads at your non-Cosmo face and figure.
"It's okay Grandad, this will help you sleep. Don't worry, I learned all about it in school".
I told you children were inherently scary, didn't I?
I wondered why the Cameroid promised higher pensions for future pensioners. It's because he's not expecting there to be any.
Could such a thing ever be accepted by the public? Well, from the comments...
Good we need some population control. - Rick, Coventry, 15/4/2011 22:57
Why are pupils being shown this film, especially aged 14 - a vulnerable age? I feel it is ok for a teacher to talk about this and discuss with a class - but to show a video? - Claire, London, 15/4/2011 22:59
Claire doesn't like the video but the subject is just fine. The next one has fallen for the old distraction trick -
"church leaders" Do we honestly care what they think and have to say? It's the equivilant of asking someone from Pixar to give us life guidence. - Voice of Reason and Sanity, A euro country, as Britain should be., 15/4/2011 23:14
This loony calling himself 'the voice of reason and sanity' has knee-jerked into 'Well if the Church is against it, I'm all for it'. The depth of his lunacy is evident in his signature, so we'll excuse his auto-response because he's an indoctrinated drone and to be pitied even as the guillotine falls.
Only one of these three openly supports assisted suicide but none are against it.
I'm not against it in principle either. However, I certainly don't want the State in control of it and I am very much against having it portrayed as the normal way to end life. There are cases where people are in such pain and distress from an incurable illness that they might just want the same dignity we afford dogs - a swift end. But they are few. Yes, they should have that right, but when the State is involved in anything it doesn't take long for the voluntary to become compulsory.
Looks like our government have finished reading '1984' and have moved on to 'Logan's Run'.
Additional:
Something just occurred to me. Bear in mind that I write horror fiction so I think along these lines most of the time.
There is only one way out of the National Insurance PONZI scheme without causing a civil war. Here it is.
Raise the retirement age to say 70, where most people start to get a bit ill and it's also 'three score years and ten', something familiar to most people.
Starting now, train the children that it's okay to 'off' the elderly if they are infirm. It's for their own good.
As this progresses, the bar for the definition of 'infirm' becomes lower as the really seriously infirm have already been eradicated. Eventually everyone of 70 and older has at least something that would class them as infirm. The few who are still sprightly at this age don't matter at this stage, they are a tiny minority.
As these children reach old age themselves, they are already well used to the idea that getting old is something terrible and to be feared and that the sleep clinics are the far better option. People are scared witless of all kinds of ailments now. This next step will be really easy.
Within one generation, two at most, it will be perfectly normal to regard 'retirement' as something closer to the Mafia/CIA definition than the one we're used to.
So when you get to 70, three generations from now, you will enter the sleep clinic without protest. It's the normal way to die.
Then there's no payout for pensions at all. The PONZI scheme ends. Naturally, the NI contributions continue because they've already been absorbed into income tax so nobody notices them any more.
Can't happen? Go back ten years or so and imagine how you'd have responded if you were told that smoking would be banned in every pub in the land, smokers would not be allowed a shelter from the elements, and that 'obese' will mean that your waist is an inch bigger than your inside leg measurement. Honestly, how would you have reacted?
You'd have said 'Tinfoil hat', wouldn't you?
Next on Parliament's reading list: Soylent Green.

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