Let me be forthright: Lecretia and her supporters can’t have anything to do with me - I’m taking a liberty referencing
by her first name - because look at my blog; I’m a hot head. I see no reason to
be nice, or play the game, with these politicians who have proven themselves to
be compassionless, cruel bastards, and yes, cowards.
One
of the bedrocks of a free society is that if someone is not harming you and
wants to be left alone, then leave them
alone, you have no business in their life. We truly are a nation of interfering
busy-bodies and nanny-statists.
I’ve
written on Lecretia
Seale before: she’s a 41 year old lawyer, dying of brain tumours, taking
her case to die with dignity – if that becomes
her wish - to the High Court. Yesterday she had her first day in court, and it
was cruel farce. Lecretia has always said this is her case, for her alone, dealing
with her circumstances, it’s not meant to be precedent setting, and that was
wise because she doesn’t have time for a drawn out case. Yet despite this her
first day was held up by three applicants wanting to have their say in her case:
the Care Alliance, the Human Rights Commission and the Voluntary Euthanasia
Society.
I
agree with the latter group, but butt out of her trial please. This is the one
venue we don’t grandstand.
What
the hell is the Human Rights Commission doing here? Yet another bloated
taxpayer funded commissariat sticking in its oar where not wanted: bugger off.
And
the Care Society: I’ve dealt with them in the body of
my original post on Lecretia: they don’t actually care much at all;
certainly not about an individual’s liberty, plus they are conflicted, in my
opinion, by self-interest. You lot can bugger off also: just stick to what you
do well, palliative care – even though that has huge holes in it, doesn’t it –
morphine is not the cure-all for pain, and often is beside the point: some of
us want to die with dignity when life degrades to what is not acceptable to us
individually, that may well not be related to issues of palliative care at all.
I
reiterate my oft made point: we self-manage our own health issues throughout
our lives; managing our deaths is merely the final decision in that adult process. More, euthanasia will be voluntary, therefore if you don’t agree,
your opinion is immaterial to the law: no one is forcing you. And I say that particularly
to the Stone Age Faithers who would have us all suffer for their fairy tale God
– grow up and grow a heart.
[Calming
myself down.]
Anyway,
Lecretia, or mainly her supporters, are keeping an excellent blog, Lecretia’s Choice: please read, bookmark and
support it. And note that word: choice.
This is a rights issue second (a Lecretia issue first).
Yesterday
Lecretia’s husband Matt, who is now on leave from work to support her, posted
his impressions of their first day in the High Court. Read that in total,
please, but I want to point out two matters. Firstly, pertaining to the three
busy-body organisations above, wise words:
I respect that all
of these parties have plenty to say on the issue, but that belongs in the realm
of public debate. Nothing I heard in the court today suggested to me that they
would add anything to Lecretia’s particular case except complexity. These people
have agendas, and they don’t belong in the courtroom, arguing over my wife’s
fate, which is all that this case is about.
What angers me is that my wife faces a long, drawn-out, undignified death, and these
applicants, if admitted, will almost certainly subject my wife to a long,
drawn-out and uncomfortable trial. She
doesn’t have time for that.
And
secondly, the point I have been making in every increasingly frustrated
euthanasia post in this blog since Labour leader David Cunliffe made MP Maryan
Street pull her wonderful and wise dying with dignity bill before last year’s
general election – a bill now kicked to oblivion under gutless new Labour
leader Andrew Little. On the cowardice oozing from our Fortress of Legislation
over this important issue – for those dying, there is no more important issue -
Matt writes:
The judge will make a decision by Friday as to
whether the applicants will be permitted to intervene. I really hope he will
agree to keep the scope of the case to my wife’s plea, and leave the wider societal debate on assisted dying to be addressed
by politicians, who should be the ones looking at the issue more broadly. Their
silence is starting to appear cowardly. Their inaction is precisely why my wife
has been forced to spend her precious remaining days pursuing this case through
the courts. It’s time for politicians to do their job, so that people like
Lecretia don’t have to take these sorts of actions.
Let
me be forthright: Lecretia and her supporters can’t have anything to do
with me - I’m taking a liberty referencing by her first name - because look at
my blog; I’m a hot head. I see no reason to be nice, or play the game, with
these politicians who have proven themselves to be compassionless, cruel,
heartless bastards, and yes, cowards.
So:
To
Labour leader (albeit anything but) Andrew Little for quashing Maryan Street’s
excellent bill: you cowardly callous bastard.
To
Prime Minister John Key for promising in the heat of the moment last year a
watered down version of Street’s bill, now totally forgotten: you cowardly
callous bastard.
To
David Seymour, leader of New Zealand’s supposedly only classical liberal party
who’s only reply to me so far is he’s a bit offended at my approach: you
cowardly callous egotistical bastard. You of everyone stand for an individual’s
rights, David, pull your head out of your arse and do something other than toadying
up to big government and sending me newsletters.
Each
of you men is happy, yes, happy, that’s the only word I can think of, to leave
this crucial issue to souls with no options left, such as Lecretia, consigning them to waste the remaining journey
of their lives to pleading for a right which should be theirs – ours - of
right. You rotten brutes; seriously, why are any of you even in politics if not
for this?!
And
you bet this is important with every survey conducted showing New Zealander’s
overwhelmingly want this right:
That is a
perfect example that #euthanasia
conversation needs to happen in. May not become law but needs open convo. pic.twitter.com/Fj6zfKdnl4
—
Logan Morton (@LoganMorton94) April
21, 2015
To
Lecretia, her husband and supporters; may you get the humane treatment by a
judge at the High Court that seems impossible from that waste of space in
Wellington, the minds of our elected officials in the Fortress.
Further
Reading:
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