Abraham Biggs: Another Casualty of the Culture of Death

He took an overdose of pills in full view of web camera peeping Toms. They watched. They commented, some encouraging him toward his demise as if it were just another television show. And no one thought to call 911 until it was too late.

There was no nick of time when the police burst into Abraham Biggs' bedroom curled up mortally.

The thinking American public is so shocked. How could this happen?

How could it not happen is the more accurate question.

As Abraham, age 19, is buried, an adult, a mother, named Lori Drew, will probably be acquitted of driving a 13 year old to her death using the internet. They have no on point crime to fit what she did.They had to cobble together a few felonies already on the books. With her own daughter and a friend, she created a young man who wooed a teenager and then turned on her. She hung herself.

When a child in a womb, right up to nine months, is fodder for dismemberment; when one that survives the invasive assault and comes out of the woman and is left to expire on some cold table, lacking legal personhood although not actual existence, when at the other end of life, statutes are passed to allow someone to die "with dignity", the line for when dignity begins and ends a relativist's dream, why are we surprised when the encroachment approaches those of us in the middle of the bracket between beginning and end?

People don't like to hear about the "slippery slope". Heck, we are well down it and these hot news events of a teenager who throws her newborn into a dumpster, or a woman who leaves a person she hit impaled in her windshield in the garage to die, or an Abraham Biggs, these are natural to the slide.

If your value or my value is a matter of someone else's determination, not God's, not Natural Law's, then we are all at risk in the lying name of "choice".

Perhaps we should worry less about tobacco and more about the deadly euphemisms with which we are killing ourselves and others.