So now euthanasia on ‘want’ list

Can’t have it all EKERS’ WEEK

I am concerned about the continual push by some to have euthanasia legalised.

When abortion was legalised the law had rigid guidelines. These were largely ignored and we now have abortion on demand, especially (heaven forbid!) if the baby should have any defects.

We cannot have an imperfect baby coming into our far from perfect world!

Euthanasia would follow the same route. Of this I am sure.

A pretty and tranquil picture is painted by those wishing to choose when they die.

Life is not like that. Why should the law be changed so a few can die when they want to?

We can’t always have what we want or expect the law to change so we can.

Mind you, there are plenty of young people brought up thinking they have the right to what they want when they want it, regardless of other people!!

Google ‘Euthanasia in the Netherlands’ and see where we will go if we decide to take this course and change the law.

A slippery slope indeed!

yardstick by which we all measure our individual requirements for a place to call ‘home’, then surely you could not find a better place than Upper Hutt.

Yet it is with growing concern, that the pieces of the jigsaw that make up the fabric of a modern society are being stymied. Why you may ask ? Because we are not getting the infrastructure that is needed to get to the modern part of the society we all want.

This is confirmed in a reply to me from the Hon. Amy Adams, who has been quite honest about what is able to be done, and what isn’t. It appears the high cost of electricity and the difficult topography are being blamed for the very slow roll out of the Rural Broadband Initiative in the Blue Mountains area.

Vodafone won the contract to provide these services.

They should be given all the help that they can get on all levels of local government influence.

I read with pride at the promise of yet more industry and commerce being encouraged into the area with rates rebates, deferred payments, etcetera.

Why are incentives not being offered to a service industry who have been tasked to make our lives just a little bit better and safer with an improved rural communications network. someone is around that I can share with), I avoid using them where possible.

So I went to the stairwell door, which was being held open by an orange cone.

I am of the ‘‘gold card’’ generation and am conscious of the benefits of keeping physically active and try to take notice of the media advertising about heart health, so while climbing the stairs to the 6th floor I had that ‘feel good’ feeling going on in my head.

However, on reaching the 6th floor I was very quickly deflated when I found that there was no open access to Aotea Pathology, only a firmly locked black door with no way of bringing to anyone’s attention that I was there.

My feel good happy disposition of that morning soon turned to one of total frustration and dismay as I walked back down the stairs with no alternative but to take the lift back up again.

This system of access is simply unacceptable.