"Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it." --G.K. Chesterton

Monday, July 6, 2026

Dystopian vision of euthanasia becomes real

Turner Classic Movies presented the dystopian 1973 movie Soylent Green a few days ago, and I was struck by how much the fictional "thanatorium (top photo)," where the character played by Edward G. Robinson presents himself to be euthanized, resembles the real-life, modern-day "Horizon Space" (bottom photo) standalone MAiD euthanasia room operated by the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. I wrote about Horizon Space last year.
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