Bill Starr is back in the news with this latest stunt in his crusade to kill his wife:
Maureen Starr (63) has Alzheimer's Disease and can no longer recognise her husband, Bill. As exclusively revealed in last week's Dispatch, Bill (76) wants to end Maureen's life and is campaigning for a change in the law to allow voluntary euthanasia. He said this week: "I want the Queen to see how a failure by her government to act has left my girl having to live on in a truly pitiful condition. "This photo expresses my feelings more than I could in a thousand words. It is the face of suffering."
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He wants a bill to allow _voluntary_ euthanasia that would apply to people with Alzheimer's who can't even recognize their own spouses? How 'zat, then? Seems like quite the redefinition of
'voluntary'. In fact, it sounds like the person who is supposed to be willing is the spouse who wants to bump the person off.
Oh, I know. No doubt the idea is that you write a thing ahead of time saying, "If I ever have Alzheimer's, please bump me off." And that's called 'voluntary'. Very scary.