I’m sorry, but I’m having trouble reconciling two statements by Matt
Vickers (Isn't this my body? My life? June 6), whose wife Lecretia
Seales died on Saturday of natural causes, frustrated in her wish for assisted
suicide.
Vickers stated that ‘there was no mistaking her response’, (to Justice
Collins’ judgement). ‘She was hurt and disappointed’. Then in the next breath he
says, ‘I am relieved that Lecretia was unconscious and unresponsive when we
received it.’
A glaringly obvious question has gone unasked by any of the
journalists present at that media conference. The fact that none commented
on the inconsistency in Vickers’ script suggests they were all carried away by a
tsunami of the sentimentality - not to mention blatant bias, as demonstrated in
Tv One ’s ‘reportage’ that night - that has so far characterised the euthanasia
debate in the media.
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