Dutch Like Killing You Softly
When the hip soul group The Fugees recorded “Killing Me Softly” two
decades ago, they could not have envisioned how the Netherlands’ government
would have effectively adopted their song’s theme as their national euthanasia
anthem in 2014.
Its lyrics fit perfectly with its policy of assisting both its terminally-ill and not-so-terminally sick citizens to comfortably shuffle off this mortal coil as if they were bothersome stray cats and often whether they wanted to be shuffled or not.
“Killing Me Softly” is actually a love song and starts with, “And there he was this young boy, a stranger to my eyes” before launching into the gist of its romantic sentiment with, “Strumming my pain with his fingers, . . . killing me softly with his song, killing me softly with his song, telling my whole life with his words.”
According to Britain’s Daily Mail, Dutch politicians, while still keeping euthanasia, aka “assisted dying,” as comfortable as possible, have now begun including “severe psychiatric problems” and dementia as reasons sufficient to dispatch people to the Great Beyond while notably not incorporating the insidious use of “terminal sedation” in their death tallies. . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=39252.)
Its lyrics fit perfectly with its policy of assisting both its terminally-ill and not-so-terminally sick citizens to comfortably shuffle off this mortal coil as if they were bothersome stray cats and often whether they wanted to be shuffled or not.
“Killing Me Softly” is actually a love song and starts with, “And there he was this young boy, a stranger to my eyes” before launching into the gist of its romantic sentiment with, “Strumming my pain with his fingers, . . . killing me softly with his song, killing me softly with his song, telling my whole life with his words.”
According to Britain’s Daily Mail, Dutch politicians, while still keeping euthanasia, aka “assisted dying,” as comfortable as possible, have now begun including “severe psychiatric problems” and dementia as reasons sufficient to dispatch people to the Great Beyond while notably not incorporating the insidious use of “terminal sedation” in their death tallies. . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=39252.)
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