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“‘Unproductive burdens’ still have a right to live”

Our head of state urged doctors to support euthanasia not only as a right, but also as a positive duty towards society.  He reflected on past cultures where the elderly would take their lives when their usefulness had passed, and declared of our own culture: “There is a point when the succeeding generations deserve to be disencumbered of some unproductive burdens.”

The Australian
“‘Unproductive burdens’ still have a right to live”
March 25, 2011
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