Post by Maggie on Oct 2, 2013 10:37:49 GMT -6
A horrifying story from Belgium, a country whose love of death is untainted by any ethical considerations, much less by the fear of God, the author of life.
Last Monday a week, a middle-aged woman, Nancy Verhelst, who had undergone a sex change operation was euthanized by a Belgian "doctor" because she was enduring "unbearable, psychological suffering" from a botched sex change operation. Trying to psychoanalyze an unknown person on the basis of newspaper accounts is probably crazy but this story begs to be looked at by someone who believes that no human has the right to kill. It certainly seems clear that Verhelst never felt any belief that she was a man trapped in a woman's body. No, she did it to try, in vain, to be accepted by her family. Her story would make a stone weep.
Nancy/Nathan Verhelst, 44, may have been doomed from birth. Her mother, upon learning of her death, reacted in a way that defies belief. The Telegraph reports:
Euthanasia puts us out of the misery of those around us whose duty it is to love and care for us as members of the human family. It is the cheap, easy solution. Who tried to help Nancy? Certainly not the ones whose duty towards her is clear. Certainly not the society that so loves death it offers it to all the inconvenient-- the blind, the psychologically tormented, the useless elderly who avoid hospitals in Belgium and in the equally bloodthirsty Netherlands the way most of us avoid alligators.
God is not mocked. There will be hell to pay. Literally.
Last Monday a week, a middle-aged woman, Nancy Verhelst, who had undergone a sex change operation was euthanized by a Belgian "doctor" because she was enduring "unbearable, psychological suffering" from a botched sex change operation. Trying to psychoanalyze an unknown person on the basis of newspaper accounts is probably crazy but this story begs to be looked at by someone who believes that no human has the right to kill. It certainly seems clear that Verhelst never felt any belief that she was a man trapped in a woman's body. No, she did it to try, in vain, to be accepted by her family. Her story would make a stone weep.
Nancy/Nathan Verhelst, 44, may have been doomed from birth. Her mother, upon learning of her death, reacted in a way that defies belief. The Telegraph reports:
The mother of a Belgian who chose to die after a botched sex change operation has said "her death does not bother me" in a tragic case that has revived debate over euthanasia in Belgium. ...
Today, his unnamed mother confirmed Mr Verhelst's comments, made in an interview just before his death, that he had been an unwanted child and admitted she had not yet read his letter to her explaining why he asked to die.
"When I saw 'Nancy' for the first time, my dream was shattered. She was so ugly. I had a phantom birth. Her death does not bother me," she told Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper.
"I will definitely read it but it will be full of lies. For me, this chapter is closed. Her death does not bother me. I feel no sorrow, no doubt or remorse. We never had a bond."
After a life of being rejected by his parents as a daughter, Mr Verhelst had hormone therapy in 2009, followed by a mastectomy and unsuccessful surgery to construct a penis in 2012.
Euthanasia puts us out of the misery of those around us whose duty it is to love and care for us as members of the human family. It is the cheap, easy solution. Who tried to help Nancy? Certainly not the ones whose duty towards her is clear. Certainly not the society that so loves death it offers it to all the inconvenient-- the blind, the psychologically tormented, the useless elderly who avoid hospitals in Belgium and in the equally bloodthirsty Netherlands the way most of us avoid alligators.
God is not mocked. There will be hell to pay. Literally.
