Scientist Convicted of Love for His Mother

A scientist has been sentenced in New Zealand for helping his mother to end her pain-filled life with morphine.

This is criminal.

Doesn’t he understand that the purpose of our lives is to assist health care providers in making profits, and that by helping his mother to end her suffering early, he deprived various hospitals, pharmaceutical and insurance companies from improving their bottom lines? How selfish. Now the money they didn’t spend will go god knows where. These companies depend on the medical expenses of our last year or so of life to pay for their CEOs’ salaries, bonuses and stock options, not to mention defraying the extraordinary cost of lobbyists. Unconscionable! Oh, for the days when the social contract meant something and life had value (in the range of tens of thousands of dollars, at last count). It’s a good thing we have laws to protect our most sacred values.

A toast to Sean Davison. Your mother would be proud of you, and grateful for a son with the courage of his convictions. She taught you well, sir.