Speaking on a mother’s act of the ‘mercy killing’ of her son, Lord Chief Justice Judge, whose name makes the word God pale into an acronym said that (the son’s) life – no matter how restricted – was still precious. He said, “However disabled (he) might have been, a disabled life, even a life lived at the extremes of disability, is not one jot less precious than the life of an able-bodied person."
Everything held important within our code of living stems from this apparently collective belief. Why not extend it to all life and include animals other than human animals and mammals and question how we deal with the extinction of the life of any organic matter?
Does the Lord Chief Justice explain the grounds for his statement – is he religious, spiritual, a traditionalist, the upholder of the contents of a dusty tome? Does he speak on behalf of a higher authority?
What is his ruling on the life of the terminally ill? What about the suicide of the rational person who has finished? Is the rule linked to our collective fear and ignorance around death or is it linked to a stronger more positive belief in life’s purpose? If so, how does the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge know all this? Is his insight part of the school curriculum? If he is performing a role and these are his lines, who wrote the script? Was it channelled?
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