This week's episode of NBC's "Law & Order" offered a sympathetic portrayal of a woman who kills her father with dementia.
The episode, "The Hardest Thing," on Thursday begins with an old man peacefully listening to the music of Handel. Someone with a pistol walks slowly up the stairs to his room and then shoots him in the back of the head. The incident is made to look like a robbery.
It turns out that the murderer is the elderly man's daughter, Victoria Beyer (Katie Lowes). According to her, she did it at his request because he had been diagnosed with dementia. His physician testifies on her behalf.
The doctor has no moral qualms about killing, only concerns for her professional standing. There is no indication that she attempted to find him the therapeutic care he needed to prepare for a natural end of life.
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On the stand, Beyer describes shooting her father as "an act of love."
That "act of love" was also conveniently an act of insurance fraud since it was made to look like a robbery.
Prosecutor Nolan Price (Hugh Dancy) decides to reduce Beyer's charge from murder to manslaughter when he experiences a "change of heart." His change of heart happens after he rejects a feeding tube for his comatose father in the hospital.
Upon letting his own father die of starvation and dehydration, he feels more sympathetic to Beyer.
In an era when countries like Canada are killing thousands of vulnerable people with assisted suicide programs like MAID, the manipulative propaganda of "The Hardest Thing" feels particularly disturbing.
We just ended four years of elder abuse in the White House, during which the media pretended a likely dementia patient could be president of the United States. Now a television show argues it is more "dignified" to just shoot a dementia patient in the head.
Compassionate and dignified end-of-life care, rather than elder abuse or murder, is actually possible for those experiencing cognitive decline. To recognize such inherent human dignity, however, we must reject the twisted messages of left-wing media and entertainment.
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