“I don’t believe she suffered”, says Susan Austen of her mother’s death
(Susan Austen speaks, May 14), “but it was cruel for her”.
What a damaging admission. Clearly the person who suffered was Austen, not
her mother. Euthanasia enthusiasts tend very much to project their own grief and
fear onto the terminally ill.
But I can’t summon up sympathy for Austen, whose plans as a convicted
criminal for travel overseas “are now in jeopardy”. She broke a law that she
(and very obviously, The Dominion Post) disagrees with. But this is a
democracy, that’s the law, and she knew the consequences.
You can’t even grace
her action with the term civil disobedience, because she didn’t make any attempt
to use the political process, she did it in secret, and she’s moaning because
she got caught.
She was convicted of a crime, so she’s a criminal. At age 67 she should
know better.
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