Odd Fellows

“You’re gonna love it — briefly”

“Compassion and Choices” joins with the Alzheimer’s Association in the modern version of the War on Poverty’s Urban Renewal projects that solved the problem of slums by tearing them down and moving the residents “elsewhere”.

Selling assisted suicide to "historically marginalized communities" is a difficult business, because it tends to kill prospective clients and smacks of eugenics. Compassion & Choices, the nation's largest and most active assisted suicide lobbying group, has found a new way to remedy this. It has enlisted the help—and data—of a trusted brand: the Alzheimer's Association.

It's a bizarre fit. While the Alzheimer's Association spends considerable resources to overcome what it describes as "the stigma" of Alzheimer's and dementia, the CEO of Compassion & Choices, Kim Callinan, has described dementia as "a fate worse than death."

Compassion & Choices was known as the Hemlock Society until the group's support for fellow member Jack Kevorkian—and his increasing number of so-called mercy killings—tainted the brand. While the Hemlock Society celebrated Kevorkian's actions, the Alzheimer's Association issued a statement in opposition, noting that "we must … affirm the right to dignity and life for every Alzheimer patient and cannot condone suicide."

And look who’s here! Quelle surprise

George Soros, whose mother was a member of the Hemlock Society, poured millions into the assisted suicide movement through his Open Society Foundations, in part to help the Hemlock Society rebrand itself as Compassion & Choices.

And the goal? Negro Removal

Once at loggerheads, Compassion & Choices and the Alzheimer's Association announced last December that, together, they will focus on a shared effort to improve "end-of-life care" to people with dementia in the "Black, Latino, Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI), and LGBTQ communities," according to a press release from Compassion & Choices. Together, the organizations will create national webinars, host conferences and local events, share data, "and more," according to the press release.

I have no particular quarrel with a person deciding to shuffle off this mortal coil before dementia or a painful, fatal disease takes complete control, but a society that helps kill off blacks, gays, Pacific Islanders, and Asian-Americans (why are the Sioux and the Passamaquoddy being spared?) will almost inevitably progress to cleaning up the ranks of other undesirables. Hitler did it, Planned Parenthood was founded on the idea, and a socialist society running out of money is bound to question how many of its citizens are actually needed. Over in Davos, they’re already asking that question.