When politics crosses this Rubicon of treating human life as something disposable, it swims straight into the realm of the most massive crimes against humanity – whether that means the sterilization or euthanasia of hundreds of thousands whom various Hitlers deem ‘useless’,” warns former Speaker of the National Assembly and medical doctor France Cukjati.
On Sunday, 23 November, we will decide whether to stand for a culture of life or a culture of death. The latter is being fiercely promoted by representatives of the transitional left.The culture of death has a long tradition. Ahead of the upcoming referendum and its various dimensions (moral, spiritual, etc.), we spoke with theologian, physician and former Speaker of the National Assembly France Cukjati.
We wanted to know why the “progressive” part of politics so strongly elevates the culture of death, where this “culture” is leading us as a nation and society, what the Catholic view is on the matter, and how the left’s pretended humanism – which claims to fight for the rights of minorities while refusing to protect the youngest and the oldest, i.e. the most vulnerable – can be reconciled.“This is not ‘progressive’ politics; it is decadent politics. It creates an environment in which human life is no longer inviolable but merely one more consumer characteristic – something you accept one day and discard the next, something you protect for one person and take away from another…” Cukjati began.
In his view, once politics crosses this Rubicon of taking life lightly, it plunges into the world of the most massive crimes against humanity – be it sterilization or the euthanasia of hundreds of thousands whom various Hitlers see no value in.We cannot stop someone from committing suicide, but we can help them liveWe cannot prevent a person from taking their own life, but we can help them live if we understand the reason for their despair, Cukjati continued.
In countries where euthanasia is already well established, most people choose death just before holidays. “Believe me, for an immobile elderly person living within their family, the greatest burden – that ‘unbearable suffering’ – is the feeling that they are preventing the family from going on holiday, so that even the grandchildren cannot go to the seaside with their parents!”
The mere existence of the law will exert “unbearable” pressure on the elderly
According to Cukjati, the very existence of such a law will create “unbearable” pressure on an elderly person’s decision – especially because palliative care is not even available to them, at least not during holiday periods. A society that is losing empathy for children and the elderly is becoming empty and impoverished. Nothing humanises a society more than caring for children and alleviating the suffering of the sick, he is convinced. Cukjati believes that to die at the natural end of life surrounded by loved ones is a blessing and a grace – for the dying person and for the family alike.
“On their lips they have concern for justice, yet with their left hand they give birth to great injustices”
“We can pass on a sense of the deepest truths of life to the young only by example and sincere conviction,” he added. This bipolarity, this inner contradiction, this entrapment in a cycle of lies, is in his view the fundamental characteristic of leftism. “They will always proclaim great concern for justice, yet with their left hand they will breed great injustices.”The former politician and doctor warns that they will loudly defend freedom of speech while just as loudly persecuting it. They will proclaim freedom – freedom to escape “unbearable suffering” – yet do nothing to establish palliative care that is accessible to all, even though four years ago, at the end of the short previous Janša government, they were handed a ready-made plan for a nationwide network of palliative teams, Cukjati concluded.
D. M.
