(LifeSiteNews) — In what Telegraph columnist Michael Deacon called “the most blistering piece of satire I’ve seen in years,” a sketch on Channel 4’s “Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping” brutally skewered the logic behind assisted suicide.
The sketch is titled “Assisted Dying Advert” and—with some strong language—opens with comedian David Mitchell, speaking in soothing but sinister tones, giving a dog a lethal injection. The dog, he says, was defecating on the carpet—and if you find yourself similarly losing control of your body, you too might consider a lethal injection.
Disclaimer: Profane language in video below.
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“Consider the Deathlitas ‘Cut Your Losses’ plan,” Mitchell said. “For a reasonable price, you can pay the ultimate price, and your loved ones will have the peace of mind knowing that they can start getting your smell out of all that lovely property equity.”
“Deathlitas” appears to be a clear reference to Dignitas in Switzerland, a euthanasia clinic that has long been a favored suicide destination. Dame Esther Rantzen, one of the primary pushers of Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill, has claimed that she will be forced to travel there to kill herself if the similar services are not made available in her own country.
“Meanwhile, you check into one of our luxurious clinic-cum-crematoria, kick back in a joint-and-muscle-soothing motorized recliner – our nurses humorously refer to them as ‘electric chairs,’ though of course you’ll be killed by poison injection,” Mitchell went on. “And select a delicious last meal from our menu… just call the number below, or get your now-nearing-retirement-themselves children to go to the website to apply.
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The sketch ends with Robert Webb stating over the “Deathlitas: Cut Your Losses Plan”: “Deathlitas. When you’re getting in the way, call it a day.” The small print at the bottom of the screen reads: “Paid over 240 months, inclusive of VAT, miscellaneous fees and dignity. Free sympathy and sad face emojis upon application. Deathlitas is a trading name for Reaper Insurance.”
Mitchell and Webb point out grim truths that assisted suicide advocates studiously avoid mentioning as they angrily shout down anyone who does—former prime minister and current peer Theresa May was condemned for calling death by poison injection “suicide” in her speech opposing the Leadbeater bill in the House of Lords. It is suicide by definition, of course, but in order to sell it to the public, suicide advocates have decided that “assisted dying” is much easier to swallow. Suicide, after all, still sounds like a tragedy.
Indeed, MP Kim Leadbeater and her fellow suicide advocates voted down dozens of safeguards proposed by MPs concerned about precisely the sort of coercion that Mitchell hints so darkly at in his sketch; Leadbeater went so far as to imply that attempting to persuade somebody not to die by assisted suicide might constitute coercion. For dark satire, it would be hard to improve on Lord Brooke’s speech supporting the bill at the House of Lords, where he ludicrously claimed that such measures might be necessary to stem the fictional problem of “overpopulation” and halt climate change:
The irony of asserting that people must die by “poison injection” (as Mitchell put it) to save them from climate change was clearly lost on Brooke. Watching columnists advocate for euthanasia as necessary to end the lives of “useless eaters “ (former Tory MP Matthew Parris penned a column for the Spectator titled “Soon we will accept that useless lives must end”) and prominent politicians insist that assisted suicide is essential to save civilization, I have often thought of another famous Mitchell and Webb sketch, “Are We the Baddies?”
I wish those trying so desperately to expand the Culture of Death would give it a watch, and then have a good, hard think:
