5 Feet of Fury

‘[P]lease forgive me for having seen Soylent Green at age 12’

Jim Goad writes:

If there’s any such thing as a fundamental human right, it should be the ability to choose when you kiss the world goodbye. The state should have no say-so whatsoever in the decision. This is why the situation in Belgium—that tiny, culturally schizoid living womb of the European Union—skeevs me out a bit. Maybe I’m overreacting, but I recoil at the idea of the government sticking its dirty beak into the euthanasia biz. I suspect it’d take the government all of two minutes to go from euthanasia to extermination,