Here are the opening paragraphs in a recent article in the Catholic Herald of London:
“Doctors should be given power to kill patients who wish to die from euthanasia by harvesting their organs for transplants while they are still alive, a team of medical researchers in Holland have proposed.
“Instead of dying by lethal injection, people requesting euthanasia could be legitimately killed as their organs are stripped from them on the operating table during transplant surgery, they have suggested.
“This would allow surgeons to remove healthy and undamaged organs which could then be used to save the lives of other patients, they said in an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, a publication owned by the British Medical Journal.
“Such procedures would allow doctors to take a beating heart from a euthanasia patient, for instance, instead of having to wait until the person has died before the organ is harvested.”
The full article is here:
Please note again the phrase “…take a beating heart from a euthanasia patient…” What does that remind you of? It reminds me of the scenes of human sacrifice at the pinnacles of the Aztec temples and in other ancient Central American cities and ceremonial centers. Living hearts perhaps not ripped out of still living chests with flint knives, but carefully excised with steel scalpels.
At least for the Aztecs, there was some kind of deformed cosmic anxiety behind the sacrifices on the temples – or at least so we read. What’s being proposed here is another stage in the self-destruction of the human species and its transformation into another life form, pitiless, limited, pragmatic, insectoid.
Man without God descends to the inhuman level. We have seen it in the Nazi experiments on human subjects. And now the Dutch propose to join the new godless Age of Reason, in which anything is permitted.
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