Part 2 – The Culture of Death: Further Exposing the Horrors of Physician-Assisted Suicide

How did we become a culture of death?

The culture of death now permeates society. The elderly, depressed, mentally ill, autistic, handicapped, and sick increasingly receive a death sentence instead of care. Unborn babies face gruesome experiments and death even when born alive.[1] This is hell on earth.

There have been numerous disturbing reports of patients being denied life-sustaining medical care or nutrition in favor of euthanasia. In some cases, patients have been effectively starved and dehydrated to death despite their explicit wish to continue living. These incidents have occurred both in jurisdictions where euthanasia is legal and where it remains illegal.

Even though assisted suicide was legal in only 11 jurisdictions in the United States in 2008, a New York Times article from that year reported that over one million people die each year in American hospitals due to decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment.[2]

On February 6, 2026 New York became the 13^th state to legalize euthanasia. [3]

Dr. George Mychaskiw, President of a proposed pro-life medical school said that today’s healthcare is “more reminiscent of Germany in 1942 than what Health care should be in 2024.”

Here are just a few of many examples:

Sister Phillip Marie Wanted to Live. But a Catholic Senior Center Killed Her.[4]
They Put a Bag Over Granny’s Head and Helped Her Kill Herself. [5]
A 25-year-old woman in Spain was euthanized Thursday after authorities denied her written request to postpone her death for six months so she could reconsider. [6]

10,000 Euthanized in Nederland’s in 2025: 500 people with dementia, 475 with age-related conditions, and 174 with mental disorders were killed, including individuals no longer mentally competent to consent. ^[7]
Oregon is Killing More People in Assisted Suicide Than Ever Before ^[8]
Colorado Governor Signs Bill Taking Away Safeguards in Assisted Suicide Law. [1]
Canadian Paralympian: I Asked for a Disability Ramp-and Was Offered Euthanasia.[2]
Scotland’s Deceptive Euthanasia Bill Redefines Terminal Illness to Include People with Disabilities.[3]
Canadian Media Celebrates After 47-Year-Old Disability Rights Advocate Euthanized by Government. [4]
The Quebec College of Physicians has now declared that euthanasia, rebranded by the Canadian government as “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAiD), is “appropriate treatment” for infants born with severe deformities or syndromes. [5]

Judge rules that 27-year-old autistic woman in Calgary can die by euthanasia.[6]
When I was Anorexic I would have chosen assisted suicide. [7]

These stories multiply, with safeguards ignored or stripped away. The slope is real and steep. Everyone should be alarmed.

How Did We Reach This Point?

Several forces converged to devalue life and elevate doctors as gods:

Removal of God and Judeo-Christian principles from classrooms and courtrooms, replaced by moral relativism.
Legalization of abortion through Roe v. Wade in 1973, promised as rare but exploding into routine practice.
Revision of the Hippocratic Oath, stripping its original bans on abortion and euthanasia.

God was Replaced with Darwinism, Moral and Cultural Relativism and Malthusian Population Reduction

The Judeo-Christian God and His Ten Commandments were taken out of the classroom and courtroom and replaced with the teaching of Moral Relativism, Darwin and Malthus. I personally witnessed the teaching of Moral Relativism in the classroom through our son when he was in sixth grade. He came home one day and told me that the teacher told the class that they needed to disregard what their parents taught them at home, and they were to create their own truth. They were told there was no real right or wrong. The teacher then started with a lifeboat scenario where there were ten people in a lifeboat and only enough food for seven people. They were told to decide which seven people would live and which three would die. Our son was upset because the class chose to kill off the old person, the handicapped person and the sick person. He didn’t want to kill anybody. We discussed that they should have worked to save everybody. A Christian following Jesus’s example would either share his food so all could live or choose to give his food so others would live following Jesus’s example of giving His life for us.

John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”

The teacher was proselytizing the students for rationed healthcare, population reduction and a culture without truth or Judeo-Christian principles.

Cultural Relativism- The “Prime Directive”

In our son’s public school, and in public schools across the nation, they also began teaching “cultural relativism.” Students were instructed that they should not judge any cultural practices, such as the Eskimos putting their elderly on an ice floe to die, the Chinese infanticide of baby girls, or the tribal practice of cannibalism. They were taught that it was American arrogance to believe we could know what was right or wrong for another culture.

This approach was a direct result of removing the Ten Commandments from the public square and replacing them with moral relativism, Darwinian thought, and Malthusian ideas of population reduction.

Darwin’s theory of evolution and survival of the fittest was taught as undisputed fact. Anyone who challenged it or suggested that God was responsible for creation was mocked and labeled ignorant, anti-science, or a religious flat-earther.

This education also prepared students for the future influx of illegal immigrants who hold very different cultural moral value systems, such as those under Sharia Law, as well as the legalization of immoral lifestyles promoted by the LGBTQP agenda that is advancing at full speed today. Survival of the fittest prepared students for letting the weak die instead of helping them.

The Culture of Death Promoted in Schools

Many public schools have implemented “death education” curricula without obtaining parents’ permission. These programs delve deeply into topics of death and suicide. In some cases, middle school and high school students are even taken on field trips to morgues, where they view dead bodies and speak with morticians. School officials often justify these visits as part of “career exploration.” [1]

Our son began having nightmares after participating in a classroom discussion on death. When I voiced my strong objections to the death education program, one teacher responded, “It is our job to teach the children about death because the parents are not doing their job.”

At the time, this attitude reflected the popular slogan promoted by Hillary Clinton: “It Takes a Village.” Government schools had effectively positioned themselves as the parent, becoming the village meant to replace traditional parental authority. They wanted to be the parent, so I had to become the teacher. While they spent their time on non-academic lessons trying to raise our children, I had to step in as the teacher at home to make up for it and ensure he actually learned how to add, subtract, read, write, and spell.

Mind you, they were not focusing on teaching the basics I had sent my son to school for. Instead, they were handing out condoms, teaching sex education, and instructing students about death, all without my permission.

Columbine Teacher Promoted Suicide as Wonderful Passage to Other Side

At Columbine High School in Colorado, a student confided in her teacher that she was struggling with depression. Instead of offering support, the teacher suggested that the girl could solve her problems by “passing over to the other side” through suicide. The teacher described the “other side” as a wonderful place. (this sound similar to the advice that some AI models have recently given to some troubled teens – who sadly followed thorough with the advice)

The entire class was then assigned to write their own obituary and describe what they wanted to wear in their casket. Following the assignment, the young girl prepared as if carrying out her plan: she painted her nails in her favorite color, styled her hair, and dressed in her favorite outfit. As she was leaving the house to drive to a Colorado Rocky Mountain cliff and end her life, her parents noticed her troubled expression. When they asked what was wrong, she finally opened up about her depression, what her teacher had told her, and what she had been planning to do.

Fortunately, her parents were able to stop her in time.

A video produced by the Colorado Eagle Forum exposed the dangers of “death education” in public schools. In it, the student shared her personal story.

Incidentally, Columbine High School is the same school where the infamous mass shooting later took place.

God is Replaced by Darwin and Malthus

Darwin’s theory of evolution and “survival of the fittest,” along with Malthus’s flawed overpopulation theory, have been taught in public schools as established fact. The Biblical truth that human beings are created in the image of God has been replaced with the idea that man evolved from animals. God’s clear mandate to care for the widow, the infirm, and the poor has been rejected in favor of these secular philosophies.

Thomas Malthus was a British economist and statistician who published “An Essay on the Principle of Population” in 1798. He came from the elite upper class in England and held deep contempt for the poor underclass, whom he viewed as “useless eaters” multiplying in the slums. He considered them a drain on the economy and warned that if left unchecked, their procreation would cause population growth to outpace the food supply. Malthus was also a promoter of eugenics.

His theory continues to be taught in schools today and is embraced by the United Nations Sustainable Development movement. Schoolchildren are being taught that human carbon output is destroying the planet, that humans are a cancer or a disease on the Earth, and that they should choose not to have children in order to save it.[2] [3] One study actually stated, “Humans are Fueling Global Warming Just By Breathing. New Study Claims.”[4]

Enter Paul Ehrlich

In the United States, Paul Ehrlich embraced the Malthusian philosophy. His 1968 book The Population Bomb, co-authored with his wife Anne Ehrlich, promoted a depopulation agenda and made the New York Times Bestseller list. [5]

He was a prominent American biologist, Stanford University professor, and leading advocate for population control in the U.S. during the late 1960s and 1970s. He co-founded Zero Population Growth (later renamed Population Connection) and pushed for policies like limiting family sizes and even more extreme measures to curb global population growth.

In The Population Bomb and related writings/public appearances (including around the first Earth Day in 1970), Ehrlich made dire, specific predictions about food shortages and famine due to overpopulation:

“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.” (He later adjusted some timelines to include the 1980s.)
He warned that population growth would inevitably outstrip food supplies, leading to massive famines, with the death rate rising sharply. In some statements, he predicted that by the 1980s, 65 million Americans could die in a “Great Die-Off,” that the U.S. would be rationing food by 1980 and water by 1974, and that countries like India could not possibly feed their growing populations. [6]

Paul Ehrlich (and his wife Anne, as co-author) outlined several more extreme population control measures in The Population Bomb (1968) and related writings/interviews. These went beyond voluntary family planning, incentives, or education, venturing into coercive or involuntary approaches when he believed “voluntary methods fail.”

Here are the key extreme proposals:

Mass chemical sterilization via the water supply or staple foods: They discussed the idea of adding temporary sterilants (chemical agents that could induce temporary infertility) to public water supplies or common foods as a way to reduce birth rates on a large scale, lamenting that the technology wasn’t yet feasible at the time. [7]
Compulsory or involuntary sterilization: Ehrlich endorsed “coercion in a good cause” and suggested that if incentives didn’t work, compulsion would be necessary. He specifically praised and urged U.S. support for India’s proposals to forcibly sterilize men with three or more children, recommending American aid in the form of helicopters, vehicles, surgical tools, and doctors to help implement such programs. He also supported research into mass sterilizing agents.⁠ [8]
A powerful new government agency with broad authority: He proposed creating a “Department of Population and Environment” in the U.S. with the power to “take whatever steps are necessary” to achieve a “reasonable” population size, including supporting development of better contraceptives, mass sterilizing agents, and other control technologies. [9]
Conditioning foreign aid on population control compliance: Ehrlich argued that U.S. food aid and other assistance to developing countries (like India) should be withheld or made conditional on those nations adopting aggressive population control programs, including sterilization campaigns. He suggested letting some countries “beyond hope” face the consequences without aid to avoid propping up unsustainable populations. [10]
Tax penalties and disincentives for larger families: Ideas included higher taxes on families with more children, extra taxes on products like cribs and diapers, or other financial penalties to discourage “overbreeding” (defined in some contexts as more than two children). [11]
Other supportive measures that enabled extremes: Full legalization of abortion, expanded sex education, research into prenatal sex selection (to reduce births by allowing families to have a son first), and using political pressure or “incentives and penalties” that could slide into compulsion. He also favored restricting media portrayals of large families.[12]

Ehrlich framed these as necessary to avert catastrophe, often describing population growth as a “cancer” that required cutting out. He preferred voluntary approaches first but explicitly left the door open to (and sometimes cheered) forced measures at home and especially abroad. These ideas influenced global debates and some real-world policies (e.g., elements of India’s Emergency-era sterilization drives or aspects of U.S. foreign aid conditions in the 1970s.)

Darling of the Media and Scientific Community Despite His Failed Predictions

None of Ehrlich’s predictions came true. Instead global food production more than tripled while population roughly doubled. Famine deaths plummeted dramatically in the following decades, and widespread starvation on the scale he predicted never occurred.

Ehrlich’s specific doomsday timelines are now classic examples of failed Malthusian-style predictions. He remained active in ecology and conservation but never retracted the core claims. Up until his death at age 93, on March 13, 2026 he remained the media and scientific community darling. His failed predictions were ignored by mainstream media. They continued to interview him and hold him in high esteem up until his death. Despite his spectacularly failed predictions of mass starvation in the 1970s and 1980s, Paul Ehrlich received dozens of major awards and honors throughout his career, including the prestigious MacArthur “genius” grant in 1990 and the Crafoord Prize (often seen as ecology’s Nobel equivalent) while his critic economist Julian Simon, who decisively won their famous 1980 bet on falling resource prices was never honored or mentioned for being right.

Ehrlich’s philosophy aligns seamlessly with euthanasia expansion: devaluing the weak, sick, elderly, and poor as burdens whose deaths can be hastened. Neo-Malthusian ideas are infused in the UN Agenda 21/2030 and school curricula, brainwashing generations that humans destroy the planet and should limit reproduction.

The UN Agenda 21 started in 1992 and has been taught throughout the public schools’ system since then. As an elected member of the Colorado State Board of Education I witnessed Agenda 21 being implemented at the local and state level during my six-year term 1995-2001. Their philosophy and goals were woven throughout the curriculum and tests…global warming, gender equality, save mother earth, limit your family size, abortion, become a vegetarian etc. I strongly opposed it but could not stop it. Agenda 21 has been followed by Agenda 2030. Every public school child has been exposed to this global governance agenda and curriculum for decades.[13] [14]

Generations of schoolchildren have been brainwashed and fearmongered that if we do not cull the population and restrict our carbon output to net zero, the earth will cease to exist. These are the doctors, nurses and caretakers of today.

The Rich and Famous Oligarchs Promote Eugenics

Prince Charles, a leader in the sustainable development agenda, was infused with neo-Malthusian ideology and promoted eugenics. He publicly stated, “In the event that I am reincarnated I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation.”[15]

Of course, we all know about Bill Gates role in the depopulation agenda. These two among many oligarchs have been pushing this culture of death. They believe that the population needs to be reduced in order for them to have complete control over the earth. The Georgia Guidestones, which were destroyed in 2022, are their ten commandments.

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES

Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. (That would mean killing off over 90% of the world’s population.)
Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity. (Have less children, promote abortion and sterilization)
3. Unite humanity with a living new language. (tower of Babel, AI creates one new language for the whole world 01001110…..)
4. Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason. (Whose reason, I ask?)
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties. (Duty to die to not be a burden on the planet)
9. Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.

RC Christian (his name a pseudonym) built the Georgia Guidestones. RC Christian views on population control and reproduction are spelled out plainly in this quote from the Georgia Guidestones Guidebook: “Irresponsible childbearing must be discouraged by legal and social pressures…..Bringing unneeded children into an overcrowded lifeboat is evil….[16]

The Culture of Death and Abortion.

Roe v Wade was passed by the Supreme Court on January 22, 1973, with the promise that abortion would be a very rare event used only for the life of the mother or in cases of rape or incest. The opposite happened. (I have covered in depth Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, in other commentaries and her view on eugenics.)

Why are we shocked at all the school shootings when children are taught that you can kill the most vulnerable innocent human beings up until birth and even let them die if born alive during an abortion? Using their brainwashed moral relativistic overpopulation mindset, if it is ok to kill the vulnerable young, why not the handicapped and elderly? Hey, why not shoot up your school?

Mother Theresa said,

“Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want,”

Euthanasia was first sold only for the terminally ill with strict safeguards in place. (It is still wrong even if it has strict safeguards.) But as we can already see, the safeguards are being either ignored or removed, just like abortion. Now, the depressed, children and adults, the handicapped, the mentally challenged, the financially strapped with curable illnesses all can be put to death by doctors and health care professionals.

Linking to Today’s Culture of Death

This mindset helps explain why abortion, sold as rare and limited, became commonplace and why euthanasia, initially restricted to the terminally ill with safeguards, now targets the depressed, disabled, autistic, and financially strained. If killing the most vulnerable unborn is acceptable, why protect the handicapped or elderly?

3.The original Hippocratic Oath vs the revised Hippocratic Oath

The original version of the Hippocratic Oath forbids abortion and doctor assisted suicide. The revised version sworn by doctors today took the abortion restriction out and gave the doctor permission to take a life and when making that decision to take into account the effect treatment of the illness will have on the economic situation of the patient and family.

Original Hippocratic Oath:

“With regard to healing the sick, I will devise and order for them the best diet, according to my judgment and means; and I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage. Nor shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will give no sort of medicine to a pregnant woman, with the view to destroy the child. Further I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner.”[17]

Revised Hippocratic Oath:

“Most especially must I tread with care in the matters of life and death. If it is given to me to save a life, all thanks. But it may be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play God. I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person’s family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, If I am to care for the sick.” [18]

Notice that the revised version includes the phrase “I must not play God.” Yet that is exactly what doctors are doing when they decide it is acceptable to “take a life.” They are speaking out of both sides of their mouth. In addition, when making that decision, they can take into account whether working to save the patient would become an economic burden on the family. If so, they are then relieved of any guilt for killing that patient.

A Call to Return to the Sanctity of Life

In the end, the culture of death that now grips our society did not arise by accident. It is the bitter fruit of systematically removing the Judeo-Christian God and His Ten Commandments from our classrooms, courtrooms, and public square, then filling that void with moral relativism, Darwinian evolution, and Malthusian fears of overpopulation. Once human life was no longer viewed as sacred and created in the image of God, it became disposable. The weak, the elderly, the disabled, the unborn, and even the depressed could be judged as burdens rather than persons worthy of care and protection. The revised Hippocratic Oath, which claims “I must not play God” while granting doctors the power to take life and weigh economic burdens on families, perfectly illustrates this hypocrisy. What began with abortion sold as a rare necessity has now expanded into euthanasia offered to infants with deformities, autistic adults, anorexic teens, and paralyzed athletes. The Georgia Guidestones once stood as a public monument to this anti-biblical worldview, openly calling for the reduction of humanity to 500 million and urging us to “be not a cancer on the earth.” Though the stones have been demolished, the deadly philosophy they embodied lives on in our laws, schools, hospitals, and global agendas. The slope has proven to be real and steep, just as the examples in this article demonstrate. Yet there remains hope. Only by returning to the God who values every life, who commands us to care for the widow, the orphan, the sick, and the vulnerable, and who showed us the greatest love by laying down His own life, can we reverse this culture of death and once again affirm that every human being is precious in His sight.

[1] On Career Day, Kids Dig Mortuary Talk – Los Angeles Times

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children

[3] https://rochesterbeacon.com/2024/03/18/how-many-children-should-couples-have-given-ongoing-climate-change/

[4] https://www.ndtv.com/science/humans-are-fueling-global-warming-by-just-breathing-study-claims-4680910

[5] The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation

[6] The Population Bomb – Wikipedia

[7] The Population Bomb – Wikipedia

[9] The Population Bomb – Wikipedia

[10] The Population Bomb – Wikipedia

[11] The Population Bomb – Wikipedia

[12] The Population Bomb – Wikipedia

[13] https://www.un.org/en/academic-impact/sdsn-youth-launches-global-schools-program-engage-students-sustainable-development