The Doomsday Manual

The original Doomsday Book was an English census, albeit one with a florid and intimidating name. What the VA has conjured up and Secretary Tammy Duckworth, appearing on Fox News Sunday, could only equivocate about, is truly scary. "Have a hangnail, go and hang yourself, have a head cold, blow your head off" is pronounced hyperbole, deliberate on my part, but these exaggerations convey the ethos of what the VA actually published-a monstrous death manual, that even Arlen Spectre did not try to defend but distanced himself from with a call for Senate hearings. Those that produced this euthanasia run amok advocacy share a mindset with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, the President's Chief of Staff Rahm's brother (the cadaverous former ballet dancer whose skeleton-like appearance must hearten the ghouls of the political left, the type that saw nothing wrong with snuffing Terri Schiavo), and Dr. Zeke is a leading advisor to Obama on crafting his universal care scheme. The raison d'etre of these Ezekiel Emanuel-Peter Singer death salesmen is not to celebrate life but to reverence ending it. This VA document was brought to light and published in its entirety as a PDF by Jim Towey, to whom anyone who holds life dear, owes a debt of gratitude, in the Wall Street Journal. The danger of universal care becoming rationed care and this kind of euthanasia-pushing is too great to permit Obama to pass a public health option. God, not government should determine the number of our days.