Roger Kusch and the suicide attempt
I don’t know if you’ve heard about a former Hamburg senator, Roger Kusch who advised a 79 years old lady into committing suicide.
The former senator is a prominent right to die campaigner who advised Bettina Schardt about how to prepare a lethal cocktail of sedatives and malaria drugs, things that would lead to her death.
Roger Kusch taped about 9 hours of the conversations with the healthy 79 years old pensioner. The thing that made Bettina think about death was the fact that she was horrified by the thought of being put into an elderly facility. She has never been married and has no children.
“I can’t say that I am suffering.” said Bettina
As you all know German people are very sensitive about Nazis and the horrible things that happened in the concentration camps so the euthanasia issue is also a very sensitive subject for most of the German people.
According to the German laws it is illegal to help a person commit suicide but Kusch cannot be charged with helping Bettina to die because he did not administrate the lethal drugs. He just advised her. In some German states some senators actually want this suicide right to be legalized. The first country which legalized the euthanasia issue is Netherlands (2002). It is also legal in Luxembourg and Belgium to commit suicide if you’re suffering from a terminal disease.
This is the hilarious part: the senator himself released some video extracts of his conversations with Bettina during a news conference on Monday.
The German Health Minister, Ulla Schmidt responded to this suicide assistance:
“What Mr. Kusch did was macabre propaganda which has nothing to do with politics”
And this is not the first time Roger Kusch talked publicly about suicide. Earlier this year the Hamburg senator came up with the idea of building a “suicide machine” useful for patients who want to inject themselves with a lethal cocktail of drugs.
I can’t help from wondering: if you’ve got cancer, you’ve got only 1 month to live, you’re in dreadful pain and you decide to take the lethal cocktail drugs is the Church going to bury you? I know some religions have some strict rules about killing yourself and priests refuse to bury a person who’s committed suicide.
Is really God’s will for you to suffer until the last moment?
If you speak German, click on “Read more” for the German point of view about Roger’s suicide assistance.
