Danny Kruger

By way of commenting on the UK Parliament’s June 20 endorsement of government-assisted suicide, Conservative MP Danny Kruger posted the above quote on social media from Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour trilogy. Waugh’s opus addressed the sin of acedia—defined in dictionaries as a “lack of interest or caring” and characterized by one Waugh admirer as a “willful rejection of spiritual good.”

The bill, which has been in the making since last winter, sets the stage for the National Health Service (NHS) to provide “lawful assistance” for certain adults to voluntarily end their life. Supplementing the Waugh quote with his own comments, Kruger wrote:

“The politics of ‘progress’ has found its fulfilment in the union of two total malignancies: the campaigns to abort babies at full term and to kill old people before their time. Here is our enemy, all disguise cast off.”

In recent years, laws enabling euthanasia and assisted suicide have been taking the Western world by storm, marketed with a veneer of compassion to cloak less publicly palatable depopulation and cost-cutting agendas (for more on this trend, see Chapter Four of the Children’s Health Defense book, The Medical-Pharmaceutical Killing Machine). In the context of the Great Poisoning, assisted suicide is the coup de grâce—after poisoning and debilitating people, the system nudges them into taking their own life.

In a BBC appearance last November, Kruger explicitly warned about the economic incentives that follow legalization of assisted suicide:

“The fact is, it is cheaper to put somebody on a pathway to an assisted death than it is to look after them and to provide palliative care, and the experience around the world [shows] … the money does get diverted from palliative care—from the end-of-life care that everybody should have—into this cheaper option. And I think it’s extremely dangerous to be introducing this new incentive … into the NHS.”

Health Secretary Wes Streeting, described by the BBC as a “senior opponent” of the legislation, explained his opposition on social media, stating that the existing lack of access to high-quality end-of-life care, combined with “tightened finances within the NHS … could add to the pressure faced by dying patients.” He also admitted to feeling “uncomfortable” discussing “the savings that might come from assisted dying if people take up the service.”

As we have done before, we encourage our subscribers to read “Destiny and the Process of Dying,” a profound essay originally published in Thomas Meyer’s magazine The Present Age, in which a Dutch anthroposophical doctor reflects on assisted suicide and the nature of life itself.