Abstracting Death

Written March 2025

Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote, "Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make an abstract of that which is concrete". How right he was. This philosophy explains how politicians were able to abstract the concrete of human connection, and convince the masses to lock themselves away in isolation for months on end. And how those same politicians were able to abstract human instinct and logic, and so convince those same masses to roll up their sleeves and accept an injection of god-knows-what into their bodies. In fact, it explains much of the disconnection between many human beings from the intuition they were blessed with by nature, in favour of a reliance upon technology. So many no longer rely upon their instinct to determine the state of their health, for example, but have instead handed this responsibility wholesale over to gadgets, that measure essential metrics to tell the user how they are feeling, even if the data contradicts how they actually feel. That these gadgets are programmed by corporations who may well have a vested interest in pushing as many as possible towards medical screening and testing, that in turn eventually lead to medications and pharma profit is lost on many. Just keep feeding them that data.

And now, another concrete of humanity, perhaps the most concrete of all, has been abstracted. Death. Not content with allowing nature to take its course, the powers that be wish to hasten us in our passings, usher us along off this mortal coil at breakneck speed, and they are packaging it, as usual, as for our own merciful benefit. Assisted dying, they insist, will bring dignity. The woman leading this charge towards state-sponsored suicide is the spectacularly sinister Kim Leadbeater, a woman so devoid of compassion and humanity she is giving Bill “I-wear-knitwear-to-look-cuddly” Gates a run for his money. Perhaps the kill squads who have appointed Ms Leadbeater as head honcho of this project thought she might cut a sympathetic figure, you know, as the sister of “Jo” Cox, so tragically murdered, apparently, while selflessly serving her community as an MP. (The official story surrounding this "murder” is as full of holes as Swiss cheese, by the way.) But these overlords have evidently misjudged Leadbeater’s acting abilities. Far from empathetic and merciful, she instead presents as cold and cruel, a maniac hellbent on drawing as many as possible into her lair of death. She exhibits a distinctive aura of glee that is more than a little disturbing when publicly speaking about her bill, horribly inappropriate given the grave subject matter. One might expect more humility, less grinning, and frankly, some compassion. But then, like a Nazi prison guard, perhaps Leadbeater is “just doing her job”.

In Leadbeater’s horrifying vision of a perfect world, the scope of those eligible for state-sanctioned-and-assisted suicide would be wider than the Grand Canyon. She specifically speaks of including people suffering from anorexia, and from diabetes, both conditions from which one can recover. Where does this end? Suffering with persistent sniffles? Maybe you should consider ending it all. Save your family the expense of tissues.

The bill has not yet been passed, but the bar just keeps getting pushed lower and lower. Already done away with is the provision from the early drafts of the bill which meant a judge would have the final say on each case. Now, instead, it will be an “expert panel” who will be tasked with signing off cases. While disingenuously suggesting this change in the bill was made because Leadbeater genuinely believes this to be a safer option, the change in fact came about due to concerns about court capacity to deal with the number of cases they are anticipating. Altruism, you say, Kim? I think not. Leadbeater is further arguing for doctors to float the idea of “assisted dying” to those who have not raised the possibility themselves, like a drug pusher, or a zealous imam promising vestal virgins to a suicide bomber.

In fact, there is a long list, growing seemingly by the day, of proposed safeguarding amendments to the bill that have, alarmingly, been voted down by Leadbeater and her fellow zealots, including one that would have meant that doctors could not discuss assisted suicide with children. Read that again. If this does not reveal the insidious nature of this bill, I truly cannot imagine what would, but I’ll go on. The grotesque proponents of this bill also voted against a “burden amendment”, which would have meant ensuring that the person choosing to end their life was doing so for their own sake, and not that of others; they voted down amendments to prohibit both “encouraging” and “manipulating” someone to choose assisted suicide; and they even voted against patients with autism or learning disabilities being provided with extra support should they be seeking an assisted death.

How, without such safeguards in place, can we be sure that an elderly family member will not be “manipulated” into “choosing” the route of assisted dying, should a relative decide they want an inheritance early? How can we be sure they will not be “encouraged”? The answer, of course, is we can’t. But I suspect this is exactly the point of the bill.

Governments have a long history of implementing depopulation agendas, although most people ignore the evidence of this, even though it is all around them. In the last five years alone, we have seen the rollout of a vaccine that has proved extremely dangerous, even deadly, for a virus that appears to have been nothing more than the flu rebadged. We have seen the culling of the elderly in care homes, while they were locked away without families to advocate for them, under the guise of the same thing.

So, while Kim Leadbeater appears to be defining her (somewhat peculiarly obtained) political career by blatantly and forcefully advocating for state-sponsored murder, it is vital to ask what the true motives behind such legislation could be. I am certain it is not to provide dignity in death. If palliative care provision was administered effectively, a process such as assisted dying would be entirely unnecessary, after all. But this bill is being pushed with immense fervour, and by casting its net so wide it is clear that this is about more than allowing a dying patient some agency and dignity at the very end. It will open the door to horrors beyond comprehension, and will undoubtably lead to the premature and tragic death of many people who should have years still ahead of them.

Proponents of this bill are exploiting the very real and valid fears so many of us possess when we consider both our own health and death, but also the health and death of our loved ones. Of course, nobody wishes someone they love and care about to experience horror or pain at the end of their life. But the circumstances of, for example, a mentally unwell individual, who feels that life is not worth living, are wholly different to those of a cancer patient who is quite literally in their dying days. The two are not comparable. So how can it possibly be justifiable to provide both with such a drastic option? I come back to the abstract and the concrete. Death is abstract when a depressed individual ponders it as a way out of their misery. Yet it is concrete when disease or sudden accident imposes it upon us. This bill, should it be passed, would erase that very distinctive difference, and blur the lines beyond recognition.

As many have pointed out in recent months, life is becoming intolerable in Britian. Of course, anyone who knows my views will know that I believe this is all by design, and that it has nothing whatsoever to do with who happens to be currently playing the roles of Prime Minister or Chancellor of the Exchequer. We are being pushed and provoked, set against certain groups who we are bated into believing are the problem, and driven towards financial hardship on purpose, through taxation, and through the removal of benefits. It is no coincidence that we are now hearing talk of crackdowns on state handouts. That the assisted dying bill will not prohibit those with “impairment of judgement arising from a mental disorder” from seeking this assisted suicide should terrify us all. It is all falling into place. Push people into a place of mental disorder by taxing them into poverty, and removing any kind of state assistance to living, and provide them with the ultimate solution – state assistance in dying.

Support this bill at your peril. Life is too precious.   

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