Euthanasia of the Mentally Ill Should Be Bigger News

We live in a culture of nihilism, in which abandonment is called compassion and true compassion -- the root meaning of which is to "suffer with" -- is denigrated as paternalism.

Brittany Maynard became an international celebrity for killing herself. Meanwhile, euthanasia killings of the mentally ill, elderly, and depressed (in addition to the physically ill and disabled) in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland are mostly ignored. Why? Because the media prefer to serve the needs of assis...