The New Yorker recently published an article on premature birth that inspired this thoroughly appalling letter:
So let me get this straight: Instead of ensuring that our educational system teaches all of our children, we should “accept death,” lest we be excessively sentimental to the detriment of . . . the special education students to whom we so desperately — but apparently inappropriately? — want to cling. What does Linda Bonin of Kirkland Washington think we should do instead? Administer the PSAT prenatally? What really frosts my shorts is that Ms. Bonin was almost certainly regarded as a good person — someone who liked to help people — possibly even by the parents of the special education students whose very existence she regretted, unsentimentally.
Who the hell is Ms. Bonin to decide that her students didn’t deserve to live. Who are any of us?
Thought Snax 
I actually completely agree that people are completely ridiculous in their unbending incapacity for not “accept[ing] death.” Death has a bad habit of being inevitable, or better still…death happens. However, that is not and cannot be any form of justification for anyone suggesting who lives or how. My sorry old broke-neck crippled ass is having more fun and enjoying life so much more than just about everyone I meet. So fuck anyone who does not get or thinks they know better than I do whether or how I or anyone else should live. We’re coming to euthanize you. (Amy, is it okay for me to post this?)
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Kevin – totally OK. Always welcome your views. Post on, dude!
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Weird. It sounds like something I would say in my hot tub…after a martini…or two…
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