A disturbing story out of Canada about an elderly couple who decided to commit suicide together and then a doctor assisted in their death. Why should you care about this? Why do we care about it? Why should we give a damn?
00:00:00.000Welcome to the show, everybody. Thanks for watching. As you can see, a different set today. I'm not happy about it. I'm not in my car. I'm in a hotel room in Cincinnati. I had a speaking gig last night. And so that's why I'm here. I don't like the, it's way too open. It's way too big. I like to be in the enclosed cocoon of the car. I don't really like the, what's the opposite of claustrophobic? Is it agoraphobic or is that something else? I don't know.
00:00:26.160But whatever it is, that's what I, that's how I feel. I just, I, in the, sitting in this vast 50 square foot hotel room, it's just very bewildering. But I'll try to get past it so we can talk because this is an important topic I want to get into.
00:00:39.340A couple of things happened last week that I've been wanting to do a video about for a few days now. First, Hawaii became either the fifth or sixth state to legalize youth in Asia. And a few days before that, there was a disturbing story out of Canada, which, by the way, Canada is the source of quite a few disturbing stories as of late.
00:01:03.280Canada is like the new Florida or something. I don't know what's going on up there in Canada, but you guys need to figure that thing out. In this case, it was about an elderly couple who was married for over 70 years and they decided to commit suicide together.
00:01:20.660Or as the media puts it, they decided to receive a, a doctor assisted death. So that's the new, you know, we went from suicide to euthanasia to doctor assisted suicide. Now we call it receiving a doctor assisted death. So you're receiving death. Like, uh, you know, it's a gift. It's like, it's like a gift that you receive on Christmas morning, except in this case, it's poison in your veins and you're dead.
00:01:46.900So we're receiving death. If, if you ever wonder why we call our culture, the culture of death, that's why, because we, we are literally treating it like a gift that we've given someone like a birthday present. Um, their names were George and Shirley Brickenden, and they decided that they wanted to commit suicide together. So they, they, um, announced it to the family and they went through a series of, they had a reception.
00:02:15.340They went through a series of these macabre kind of farewell ceremonies, much like you may, you know, if you maybe walked into a restaurant or something and you saw it going on, you would think, oh, they're having a retirement party or, oh, they're, you know, they're moving to, they're moving down South to a, to a new, to a retirement home. Uh, and everyone's coming to say goodbye.
00:02:36.140No, they were doing this because they were killing themselves. Um, when the time came, we're told by the media reports, they laid in bed together and they held hands.
00:02:48.900And then a doctor injected poison into their veins, a lethal injection, just like they would do to, um, to criminals, to convicted murderers and their closest loved ones, apparently stood at the, stood at the foot of the bed and watched their parents, um, die.
00:03:09.980Now they are not the first married couple. I hate to say who have received death in this way. Um, a couple in the Netherlands had what they called their deepest wish fulfilled when they committed suicide together.
00:03:24.140A couple in Oregon had their own wish fulfilled a few years ago in the same kind of way or a few months ago, actually, you know, it was originally claimed if you're wondering why you should care about this, well, we're going to talk about that.
00:03:39.300But first of all, you should care about it because it's just disgusting, inhumane and horrific, but also it was claimed originally that euthanasia would be something we would reserve it only for individual adults.
00:03:54.140Who are terminally ill. That's what we said. We were told it. That's all it is. Individual adult, terminally ill on their deathbed. Um, then they can get euthanasia, but as with everything else with the left, the analogy I've used before is, um, when you're, when you were a kid, maybe you read the book.
00:04:12.180Uh, if you give a mouse a cookie and that's all about this cookie that, you know, the kid gives them a mouse, the kid gives the mouse a cookie. Then he comes back and he wants a glass of milk.
00:04:24.340And then he wants a napkin. Then he wants a fork for some reason. And before you know, he's, he's, he's, he's eaten them out of house and home because he just kept, the kid just kept satiating the mouse.
00:04:32.180So the left is a lot like that. They're like the mouse in that, in that disturbing fable where you give them one thing, except that the cookies that they want are again, horrific, but you give them the one thing you think that's it.
00:04:45.560And then they come back and they say, Oh, actually, can I have this too? Oh, you know, wow. We're here. How about that as well?
00:04:49.660So it started with euthanasia, individual adults, terminally ill. And now we treat it like a romantic getaway for, for, for elderly couples. Or, you know, we also have, um, in Europe and I'm sure it will be here soon enough, euthanasia for people who are depressed, euthanasia for people who are alcoholics, euthanasia for children.
00:05:11.880That's what's happening in Europe. You see, the culture of death is a cancer and it spreads and it consumes and it never, ever stops. There's, it will never get to a point where it says, Oh, that's enough. We'll leave you alone. Never stops. It whittles away at life on both ends, ends of the spectrum.
00:05:31.300So we were working on the, the unborn babies. We're, we're, um, killing them off. And then we come in on the other end with the elderly and the sick, and then we whittle them away too. Until we're kind of just, you know, we're just sort of meeting in the middle so that you're not safe unless you're a 27 year old college educated, completely healthy person. That's, that's where we're headed.
00:05:57.780Where that's, that's the only, you know, if you're, if you fall into that demographic, then we can use you in society. If not, we got to get rid of you.
00:06:05.500Um, and that's why, because it's all part of this greater agenda on the left. That's why the left can barely contain their enthusiasm when it comes to euthanasia.
00:06:17.340Uh, whenever there's a famous euthanasia case, they just fall, they trip over themselves to congratulate the person. Remember Brittany Maynard a couple of years ago.
00:06:27.780Was a famous one in Oregon, I believe. And she announced ahead of time that she was getting doctor-assisted suicide and the left and the media, they were just ecstatic. They were like, Oh, she's so courageous, such a beautiful thing.
00:06:38.520And, you know, it's just imagine for a moment. I mean, I'm in a hotel room right now. It's like 20 stories high. So imagine there was a guy standing up on the roof, 20 stories up, and he was about to jump.
00:06:55.940And what the left is doing, basically, is they're, they're, they're coming up and they're saying, Oh, wow, you're so brave. Yes, jump, die with dignity. You're so courageous. This is so wonderful. I mean, it brings a tear to my eye. It's such a beautiful thing.
00:07:11.700What really is the difference between cheering a guy on who's standing on the ledge of a building and cheering somebody on who's going to a doctor to get a poison pill or a poison injection?
00:07:24.220What's the difference? There's no difference. It's suicide either way. Now we could try to dress up euthanasia, call it something else, you know, have them lay down in the bed.
00:07:33.720We call it medicine. We say they're receiving death. But in the end, it's the same thing as jumping off a building. In fact, jumping off a building is probably a more painless death, really.
00:07:44.940So there's no difference. That's why I get upset about it. I get upset about it for the same reason that I would be upset if there was a guy in the building and then you came up and said, Yeah, go for it.
00:07:55.300Or if I was trying to talk him off the ledge and you said, Hey, how dare you? Mind your own business. If the guy wants to jump, let him jump.
00:08:00.180But if you did that, we would all agree that you are a monster, right? Everyone in society would agree that if you cheered on someone committing suicide, you're a monster.
00:08:12.260But if you did it in the context of euthanasia, then, well, you're just a liberal.
00:08:17.480So people were, you know, the left was gushing over this suicide.
00:08:21.800And the main thing that you hear over and over again, whether it's with the Brick and Dens or it's with Brittany Maynard or whoever else, it's that, well, they're dying with dignity.
00:10:13.740When you question the dignity of suicide, and by the way, not just with euthanasia, but I have found, when you question the dignity of any kind of suicide, even if a guy is jumping off a building or whatever else, whenever you do that, people get very upset.
00:10:32.960They don't want you to besmirch the dignity of suicide.
00:10:39.440And they say that it's cruel and it's heartless.
00:11:02.820Not only are you encouraging more people to murder themselves by glorifying suicide, but you are very clearly implying that the people who don't kill themselves, yet are terminally ill or very old, you're clearly implying that they do not have dignity.
00:11:24.980What you're saying is, if it's dignified to kill yourself before death naturally takes you, then it must be undignified to wait around for it to take you.
00:11:39.300Both of those strategies can't be dignified.
00:11:41.840So what you're saying is that a cancer patient who dies in his bed naturally, you're saying he lacks dignity.
00:11:51.480You're saying that an old man who decides to live and cherish every moment that God has given him, you're saying that he lacks dignity.
00:12:02.500If euthanasia is dignified, it is dignified because you are avoiding a slow and drawn-out death.
00:12:09.640What about the ones who don't avoid it?
00:12:12.200What you're saying, if you're in this camp, you're saying that they are the ones who don't have dignity.
00:12:19.100So, yeah, you could accuse me of besmirching suicide.
00:12:23.480I'd rather besmirch suicide than besmirch life itself.
00:12:26.420We're so desperate in this culture to hold up suicide as this grand and elegant thing that we turn life into a dirty and shameful thing.
00:12:43.120These people, they hail the courage of a man who kills himself to avoid suffering.
00:12:47.620And in the process, they make a coward of a guy who embraces his suffering and finds a meaning in it.
00:13:22.420Even if you're whittling away from an illness or something.
00:13:32.020There's still a lot of dignity in that.
00:13:35.640I mean, the people that accept that fate and who die with courage and, you know, on God's time.
00:13:41.300The other thing that people say about euthanasia is that it allows someone to go out their own way and to take charge and to exercise autonomy and so on.
00:13:54.460We'll say, oh, they're doing it their way, right?
00:13:57.320That's what we say about the brick and dens.
00:14:25.300So, you know, trying to take charge or do it your own way so you kill yourself before you die.
00:14:30.960That's like if you heard that a guy is coming to your house to burn it to the ground, and so you head him off at the pass by burning it to the ground yourself.
00:14:37.980And then when he shows up, you say, you see what I did?
00:14:44.300No, in that case, to take charge of the situation would be to stand outside your house with a shotgun, and when the guy comes, you make him leave.
00:14:58.120When death comes, and it will for all of us, all you can do is accept it.
00:15:03.720You can choose to accept it earlier than God intends and by your own hand, but that is no kind of victory.
00:15:10.940But I think the biggest problem here with that way of thinking is that our lives, our deaths as well, these are not things that we can own.
00:15:57.040It's the unwieldy, uncontrollable nature of death that they fear, and they think they can make it a less fearful thing by grabbing hold of it
00:18:09.500If we live in an atheistic world, there is no point to life other than simply to live it for as long as possible, and then you don't exist.
00:18:19.920So in an atheistic world, euthanasia is a sick joke.
00:18:23.660It's a crime against the Darwinian order of things.
00:18:28.060And then from a religious perspective, from a monotheistic perspective, all of this, my life, my circumstance, my identity, it was decided by a divine force, by God, before the beginning of time.
00:18:41.720And so I, this is the beautiful thing, that I was an idea in the mind of God.
00:18:51.420And he spoke me into existence from the midst of eternity.
00:18:56.020He plucked me out of eternity, and he placed me into time.