{"id":280884,"date":"2022-12-04T11:33:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T17:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=280884"},"modified":"2022-12-03T23:39:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T05:39:12","slug":"washington-post-suicide-starvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/washington-post-suicide-starvation\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post promotes suicide death of man who died by self-starvation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(National Review<\/a>) We aren\u2019t an anti-suicide culture anymore. Oh, sure. We bemoan those of veterans and teenagers \u2014 still \u2014 but the elderly, ill, and disabled? Not so much.<\/p>\n

The assisted-suicide movement boosts suicide in many forms. One of the most insidious is known in euthanasia parlance as VSED, which stands for \u201cvoluntary stop eating and drinking.\u201d The idea is for people who want to die to starve and dehydrate themselves to death \u2014 with doctors palliating the agony of such a course. The euthanasia movement particularly\u00a0targets the elderly<\/a>\u00a0for this type of advocacy.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Washington Post Magazine<\/em>\u00a0now\u00a0tells the tale of one such death of an elderly man<\/a>, depicting the event as merely a matter of autonomy (with the implied message that assisted suicide should be legalized so people who want to die don\u2019t have to go to such extreme measures):<\/p>\n

Ben Griffith rose before the sun the morning of March 18, 2022, packed his car and began the long drive from his house in Frankfort, Ky., to suburban Kansas City, Mo. The time had come to help his father die.<\/em><\/p>\n

Months earlier, when John Griffith made clear to his three sons that he would end his life by denying himself food and drink rather than go into an assisted-living facility, his two older sons objected. Only Ben, the youngest at 67, agreed to keep vigil with his 99-year-old father. Now that John\u2019s quality of life had deteriorated to the point where he would rather die than have his misery prolonged with unwanted treatment in assisted living, Ben was heading to his father\u2019s house.<\/em><\/p>\n

Be clear. VSED is suicide every bit as much as if the suicidal person jumped off a bridge. That means that the\u00a0Post<\/em>\u00a0story violated most of the\u00a0WHO Media Suicide Guidelines<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on reporting:<\/p>\n