“Euthanasia is a terrible, dirty word,” says Karyn Hopper (Hutt
resident wild over 'feral' felines, December 26). My reaction was to laugh,
but actually it’s not that funny.
Because as a cat lover, Hopper “was not afraid to take a hard line on the
issue”, which was to suggest cats should be rehomed or (shock, horror!) “put
down”.
Once upon a time we all used that expression in regard to animals, but as
our sensitivity towards animals increased in inverse proportion to our regard
for human life, especially in the womb, we substituted the euphemism
‘euthanasia’.
So why is ‘euthanasia’ a terrible, dirty word when applied to cats, but not to
people?
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