(By Bobby Schindler / LifeNews.com) – The recent euthanasia of a 25-year-old woman, Noelia Castillo, in Spain signals a deeply disturbing cultural decline: assisted death is now offered as a compassionate solution for suffering, even among the young.
This alarming trend is particularly evident in the Netherlands, where a teenage boy with autism was euthanized just four-and-a-half years after diagnosis. Not even 18 years old, this young boy described living as utterly joyless, wracked by anxiety and mood disorders.
As bioethicist Wesley J. Smith warned decades ago, once death is accepted as an answer to suffering, any attempt to limit assisted suicide collapses under its own logic.
Today’s youth are growing up in a culture saturated with death, numbed by abortion on demand and physician-assisted suicide, romanticized and glorified by violent video games, songs with explicit lyrics, and vulgar Hollywood movies. CONTINUE