A roundup of news and commentary from around the interwebs.
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An Irish suicide campaigner is calling for the legalization of assisted suicide for the healthy partners of the sick. Tom Curran is the head of Ireland’s branch of Exit International, and he’d like to see a lot more people being ushered towards the exit. As we’re seeing, the term “suffering” can mean pretty much anything—which is why suicide activists chose it in the first place. They’re weaponizing empathy to mainstream suicide.
From the Guinness Book of World Records: “‘0% chance of survival’: World’s most premature twins defy doctors.” The accompanying article is admirably frank about how preemies are often treated by medical professionals, as well:
Adiah and Adrial were born 126 days early, on 4 March 2022, breaking the previous record of 125 set by Keeley and Kambry Ewoldt (USA, b. 24 November 2018). Weighing just 330 g (0.72 lb), baby girl Adiah was born 23 minutes before her brother, Adrial, who weighed 420 g (0.92 lb). At a combined 750 g (1.65 lb), they are the lightest twins at birth ever.
The record-breaking Nadarajah twins entered the world at a gestational age of exactly 22 weeks. If they’d been born even one hour earlier, no attempt would have been made to save their lives.
