The high cost of living may be nothing these days compared to the higher cost of dying. So from a strictly dollars-and-cents point of view, why stick around? Why not move to a state like California instead? It's the latest and largest to join the ranks of those embracing a right to die. But there's always some spoilsport, often enough wearing a clerical collar, who wonders where all this will lead. And he doesn't have to wonder long before he realizes that it will lead to a general pruning of the welfare rolls with special attention to poor people, new immigrants and all such "social undesirables."
To quote Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, the City of the Angels whose favorite these days is the Angel of Death: "In a state were millions are forced to rely on government-subsidized care, who can imagine the government will continue paying for months and perhaps years of costly treatments rather than prescribing a cheap bottle of suicide pills."
"Your money or your life!" the highwayman of old would demand. But he was a piker compared to today's grand coalition of bureaucrats, social reformers and advanced thinkers who demand both.
Editorial on 06/13/2016