Sep 22 2009
This evening free, sponsored by Beelzebub
I’m glad that Vancouver’s public library cancelled this:
The Vancouver Public Library has told an Australian group that it can’t use the library’s public meeting rooms to hold a suicide workshop for the terminally ill.
On the other hand, I have a bit of a morbid curiosity (pardon the pun) to know who would have come, if anyone. Probably some of the saddest, most depressed folks around–in which case, if I lived in Vancouver I would have gone, found out their addresses and started some sort of home visitation program. Bring by some fresh flowers, ask about their lives. Infuse a little something to make life worth living.
Who on earth offers “suicide classes” anyway? And there, my post title is less a joke, and more a sardonic statement of reality. Not messengers of hope and decency, these folks.
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So will the Australian group take the library to court for discrimination??? Because I’m guessing that’s what would likely happen if the library was a church, or the group was discussing homosexuality.
I don’t imagine plain discrimination would do them any good. Perhaps equal access would work, but I know nothing of Australian law regarding library access.
Suicide classes seems odd to me too. It shouldn’t be that hard to do that classes are needed.
I’d perfer the potential suicides find a method that doesn’t inconvenience everyone else though. If they make the trains late, their last act in life would be to make a few hundred people mild annoyed.