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Do Boomer Lives Matter to you? These people are the most liable to die from COVID-19 and other maladies. Thank the Lord the pandemic is over! But now we all need to face and deal with a much more serious problem. One thing that's not fading away is many people's ambivalence toward the elderly, sick, and disabled. The 75,000,000 "Baby Boomers" born from 1946 to 1965 in the U.S. are aging, nearly half are disabled, and over 70% (that's 50 million!) will be disabled before they pass away. In my blogs and newsletters over the last few years, I have detailed the bias against them that exists. Here are just a few of these recent articles, as of July 2020:
The very idea of VSL is horrific - that government economists are calculating the Value of a Statistical Life - and then use this as a basis on which to decide who lives and who dies, deciding how much it costs to keep an unborn baby or an elderly or disabled person alive, and if a certain dollar limit is exceeded, that person is aborted or put on "hospice" status and given high doses of morphine or other opiodes leading to death. But it is happening. These articles give ample evidence that a very real movement toward euthanasia, by euphemistically redefining "palliative care", exists in the U.S. and around the world. This is not something we can ignore any longer!
King David felt the pain of being contemptible, forgotten, written off, and even persecuted:
Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief. For my life is spent with sorrow, my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity. My bones are wasted away. Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me. I am forgotten from their hearts like a dead man. I am like broken pottery. For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life. But I trust in You, O Lord. I said, "You are my God." My times are in Your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me. (Psalm 31:9-15)
Our times should be "in God's hand," not in the hands of those who are trying to save money by deliberately shortening people's lives. Because God created man in His image and likeness, each and every human life is precious and should be safeguarded by doctors and other medical personnel until natural death occurs. That is what they have sworn an oath to do. If you believe this, I'm asking you to...
...to continue reading my articles. You and I are not merely a "broken pottery" - just a material object to be thrown out when it breaks or wears out. Break free from the mental straightjacket of passive secular materialism that teaches - "There's nothing we can do about it, old and sick people are just going to die anyway," so they're sent away to a nursing home or long-term care facility where they frequently die of disease or loneliness because hardly anyone takes time to visit them. Don't put it off until "later" or tomorrow. Don't just let it slide, thinking "I'm too busy right now," or "This doesn't concern me," because it will concern you sooner than you think. Join "The ARC" Chat/Video Forum to Build the ARC. And enroll in our free courses to see how YOU can do diakonia-ministry! Together, we can take action and make a difference with our Agape Restoration Communities! So to keep on reading these articles, please...
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