Bodily autonomy in the Brittany Maynard case. But for everyone else who isn't terminal and just wants to make a conscious choice, tough shit bro, you have to suffer because every life is sacred, every life is great, if ever a 99%-er is wasted, Marx gets quite irate?
Why shouldn't euthanasia and assisted suicide be legal for EVERYONE regardless of "justifiable cause"? Robin Williams had a shitload of problems when he brutally hanged himself with a belt. You think he should have kept calm and carried on?
How about people who are just tired of the shit that this world deals them and would rather die than live miserably as pawns in this sick game of paycheck-to-paycheck? The woman in New Jersey who worked 4 Dunkin' Donuts jobs: what if her death wasn't an accident and she just decided she was tired of working 4 Dunkin' Donuts jobs with no hope for upward mobility? You'd tell her to fight the good fight for all of us and soldier on? Quit all her jobs and go on public assistance? Go to college and then work 40 Dunkin' Donuts jobs to pay back student loans for a worthless basket-weaving degree?
How about people like me who are 18 and haven't even gone out into the "real world" yet but don't really see the point in bothering anymore because all that's left are Dunkin' Donuts jobs unless you're a math genius like Will Hunting and get a full ride to MIT. How about people who think that a life condemned to poverty and shift work is a fate worse than death, who vote and vote and vote for everything including dog catcher yet see no improvements in their own lives because everything is sold out to the rich and nobody really cares about the grunt behind the cash register. How about people who don't see anything noble about poverty and are realistic enough to accept that we're not all going to run out into the streets and foment another Bolshevik Revolution. Or how about people who don't even want to provide a reason and just decide they want to have control over when the threads of fate get snipped.
Why is what Emanuel is suggesting wrong? All he said was who in their right mind wants to live a life knowing they're a burden to other people? I sure don't. Heck, I don't even want to live past quarter-life because I know I'll just be a burden on the public system. I know that the 1% or the 0.01% or the 0.0000000001% or whatever the percentage of greedy SOBs at the top is called are not the ones contributing to that system and never will be. It's the guy working two or three halfway decent office jobs or construction jobs at 100 hours a week just to feed himself and his family and send his kids to college. And he's tired and he doesn't want to be burdened by everyone else because he can't be. It's killing him. Better me than him, because at least he's doing something for the greater good. He's got a skill, a worthwhile skill, whether it's operating a jackhammer or a Caterpillar or doing spreadsheets or ripping wires out of telephone poles, and he's using it for some greater good. As opposed to the worthless, no-skilled loser writing term papers about shit nobody cares about. At least if they were term papers about network infrastructure analysis or something else targeted at the job market and not Cicero or the Federalist Papers, that's one thing. But if it's bullshit for a psych degree or some other basket-weaving nonsense that leads to McDonald's and more McDonald's, then what's the use. Really, what's the use. We don't need no education. We don't need no Fryolator temperature control.
The game is rigged, and it's over. It's over for those of us who put a burden on others. It's over for those of us who contribute "creatively" but not economically. It's over for those of us who aren't Queen Elizabeth, Betty White, the Emanuel Brothers, the Jonas Brothers, or some computer genius who creates the next Mario Brothers. It's over for those of us who can write poetry but not Java Script. It's over for those of us who can play Canon in D but not program in C. It's over for those of us who can compare and contrast Dracula to Anne Rice, but who'd suck as phlebotomists. And it's high time those of us who recognize we are a burden -- people like me -- do what's necessary to alleviate some of that burden for those who do, and can, contribute. Otherwise we're -- I'm -- just dead weight, an albatross around everyone's neck. No, give me (and others) liberty: give me death. Ich bin lebensunwertens leben.
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