A wonderful quote from a Jesuit priest during the time of the Nazis in German on the subject of euthanasia

This quote is from Fr. Alfred Delp, a Jesuit priest murdered by the Nazis nearly 70 years ago.This is what he had to say about euthanasia:

“A community that gets rid of someone—a community that is allowed to, and can, and wants to get rid of someone when he no longer is able to run around as the same attractive or useful member—has thoroughly misunderstood itself. Even if all of a person's organs have given out, and he no longer can speak for himself, he nevertheless remains a human being. Moreover, to those who live around him, he remains an ongoing appeal to their inner nobility, to their inner capacity to love, and to their sacrificial strength. Take away people's capacity to care for their sick and to heal them, and you make the human being into a predator, an egotistical predator that really only thinks of his own nice existence.”