From the 100thousandyouth website:

Picking the Winners

The game of deciding who lives and dies is censorship of humanity.

Imagine what the reaction would be if a large group of presumed-dead survivors of the devastating tsunami were to be found, sustaining crippling injuries but alive. Before rejoicing, would their relatives and the news-watching public first inquire what their individual quality-of-life-outcomes might be?

Would we ask how much their medical fees might cost the taxpayer? How productive their future roles in society might be?

I pray to God we wouldn’t.

Yet parents and doctors of premature babies often face these very questions.

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Christina Sonnemann