Peter Singer, prophet

"..... During the next 35 years, the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological, and demographic developments. By 2040, it may be that only a rump of hard-core, know-nothing religious fundamentalists will defend the view that every human life, from conception to death, is sacrosanct.

"...By (2040), an increasing proportion of the population in developed countries will be more than 75 years old and thinking about how their lives will end. The political pressure for allowing terminally or chronically ill patients to choose when to die will be irresistible.

"When the traditional ethic of the sanctity of human life is proven indefensible at both the beginning and end of life, a new ethic will replace it. It will recognize that the concept of a person is distinct from that of a member of the species Homo sapiens, and that it is personhood, not species membership, that is most significant in determining when it is wrong to end a life. We will understand that even if the life of a human organism begins at conception, the life of a person—that is, at a minimum, a being with some level of self-awareness—does not begin so early. "

Translation: People with brain damage aren't "persons", the mildly senile are not "persons", children under two years are not "persons", and can be killed by their family's requrest (although right now in the Netherlands, many infant euthanasia are done without asking the families, and also this is done to adults, sometimes even by nurses) , and anyone with chronic illness (and in the Netherlands today, this includes the depressed, infants, and healthy people who are just plain tired of living) can kill themselves with the government's blessing...

The GOOD news is that by 2040, the Muslims will probably be a majority, and Islam forbids euthanasia...and abortion except for the life of the mother, and although the average Muslim would not opt for extraordinary therapy for many people, they forbid killing the disabled...