IT MAKES SENSE TO ME
By Larry Peterson
Her name is Laura and she is 24 years old. She is a healthy woman who lives in Belgium. She wants to die. Why does she want to die? Because, as she says, "Life, that's not for me."
My initial reaction was, "Oh my God, this young woman is severely depressed or on drugs. Whatever happened to her that would lead her to a feeling of wanting DEATH? She is 24 years old and healthy. She has a whole life ahead of her. This story is all over the print and broadcast media. Why isn't someone helping her?"
Isn't there anyone who has offered to give her the necessary counseling, spiritual guidance, or anti-depressants to help her see that her own "life" is not her enemy? Is there no-one who might convince her that her life is a one of a kind precious gift? Is there no one to prevail upon her that her life is rarer than the rarest diamond and more valuable than all the world's riches combined? Cannot someone show her that she is the only one in the history of the world who is SHE or will ever be SHE? Well my friends, Laura lives in Belgium and apparently in that country not too many people give a damn about the value or sanctity of life.
In February of 2014, Belgium approved legalized euthanasia for children . I believe this supposedly sophisticated, civilized, and pompous nation has earned the title The Great Nation of Self-Annihilators. In Belgium you are witnessing Nihilism in all of its twisted "splendor". This is encapsulated in the total rejection of the value of life as witnessed in the upcoming assisted suicide of Laura.
How sad, how disgraceful, how blatantly sinful. Doctors have given Laura the go-ahead to kill herself. They will help her to be "successful". Why would doctors do this? In Belgium many of them feel that life and death are really not such a big deal in the first place. Laura says that she has been considering suicide since the age of six. Are you kidding me! She says that she was ONLY six when she started thinking that she "didn't want to live at all". It is hard to even fathom such thoughts bouncing around inside the head of a six year old who has not even reached the age of reason.
Laura has had psychological problems her entire life. In high school she was a "cutter" self-mutilating her arms. Her father had been an abusive drunk and her mother had left when she was a toddler. She grew up with her grandparents who loved her dearly but maybe the trauma of her parents' behavior was too much for her and drove her into depression. It does not matter. What matters is that this child had problems and no-one gave a damn. She was left to grow with a festering and debilitating sense of "nothingness". Now they want to help her kill herself. This is Nihilism run amok.
Laura has told doctors that she needs to kill herself because, as she says, "life, that's not for me". They readily agreed and Laura has now set a date for her death injection to be administered in her apartment. The actual date is unknown. She is planning her funeral and writing final words to be read. Doctors and mental health professionals are happily helping her along on her death journey. I cannot get it out of my head that she is only 24 years old and healthy and doctors are gladly helping her to kill herself simply because she asked them to help her do it. Whatever has happened to the moral fiber of people around the world?
Secularism has infested the entire world with its self-fulfilling message of false happiness. Belgium, a country that is 75% Catholic, voted 2 to 1 to pass the child-euthanasia law. The bishops in the country begged them not to vote for it. It did not matter. The attitude of many people is: What do God's representatives know about real life? For that matter, what does God know about real life? If poor Laura wants to kill herself to be happy, why not. And then they go to church. WHATEVER!
Well now, if you do not have God in your life and believe that death leads to nothing then you probably find comfort in believing that "nothing" cannot hurt you. It follows that being dead will make you happy. How sad and perverse is this? But it proves one thing. While the secular world fights to eliminate God from our lives it is God who is desperately needed back in their lives. For with God comes Hope and Love and when a person has that Faith in their lives they are not asking compliant strangers with fancy diplomas to help them die. Especially when they are only 24 and filled with life.
©Larry Peterson 2015 All Rights Reserved
Hi Larry,
ReplyDeleteI understand that "it makes sense to you". What you say probably makes sense to me too. But we must remember one thing:
When God created the Human race He had two choices - he could have created a race of robots all pre-programmed according to His will. How wonderful that would have been? No evil, no Satan, no bad things at all in the world.
Or He could have given us free will. The choice to choose right from wrong, to love Him or not to love Him, to believe in Him even, or choose not to believe. In His great love and generosity, He chose the latter.
We took control and chose wrong doings many time. We have even told Him to keep out of our lives, because we know better. Being a gentleman, He obliged and stood aside; leaving us to get on with ruining our lives now and for eternity.
It makes sense to me.
God bless you and yours.