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There was an article recently about a new type of hospice being set up for terminally ill infants. While on the face of it, it seems like a noble cause, enabling parents and infants to spend time together in a less antiseptic setting for the short while they have, but there's actually a more sinister side.

It seems many of these infants were diagnosed in vitro as having terminal conditions... and the parents given the choice of terminating them decided instead to have their child, name it, enshrine it and make it suffer through a brief but agonizing life.

If you really loved someone would you cause them pain and agony knowing with clear certainty they would die? Especially someone who can't speak, can't understand? These parents who choose to have a terminally ill infant claim they want to cherish their brief time together, so as the baby is desperately trying to draw its breath they can grieve together as it dies.

Talk about fucked up.

Here's both barrels: the only reason these people are having terminally ill babies is a perverse Munchausen syndrome whereby they can draw the attention and sympathy through the tool of their child. That's it basically, "Look at me, poor me, my baby is dying and there's nothing I can do"... except of course perhaps make the sympathetic decision to prevent the child from suffering in the first place.

That's not love, it's narcissism.