Vermont Students Promote Doctor-Prescribed Suicide in Video

In what can only be described as a new low, students in the Vermont Essex High School Social Justice Theater class have produced a video promoting doctor-prescribed suicide. “The students became aware of the issue of Death with Dignity this fall, and wanted to add their voices, their opinions, and their insight as teenagers to this issue, in the hopes of inspiring action in the Vermont legislature this session,” says the Patient Choices at End of Life website which houses the video.

Six students tout the “benefits” of doctor-prescribed suicide with the recurring theme of “It’s my life.” They spout the rhetoric of euthanasia advocates chanting words like “choice,” “dignity,” and “control.” It is chilling that a school and students would be used for this purpose.

Vermont, Hawaii and Massachusetts are 2012 battleground states for legalization of doctor-prescribed suicide.

View the video here.

Barbara Lyons