When your dog or cat enters the realm of endless pain and disability, it is considered humane to end the suffering. With people, it is considered wrong to do anything other than force them to continue. Dr. Jack thought it was a twisted double standard. Maybe someday the rest of the world will think as he did.

. . .
Against the Christmas windows
Here in Christmas town
A young girl rests her tattered head
And the festive lights shine down

And if she were a kitten
Someone would take her home
But we’ve no pity for our own kind
Our hearts are stone
Our eyes are blind
. . .

Watt/Thorn