Today's cover of Dnevnikov Objektiv discusses the announcement of a legislative referendum on the Law on Assistance in Voluntary Euthanasia. 'A Song for the Right to Bypass' by Andrej Rozman - Roza is shaped like the Slovenian national anthem.
Rough translation goes like this:
A Song For The Right To Depart
When you no longer see any meaning in each day’s worsening suffering,
and when from your increasingly unbearable life
the only ones who profit are the shareholders of the pharmaceutical industry
and the professional promoters of the morality industry,
which lives off producing fear of false faith
and worse still — fear of human free will and choice,
the latter say that you must suffer until the end passes,
with painkillers and the miracles of medicine,
granted, not by any particularly natural path,
though this does not bother those who invoke the Creator,
and who oppose the idea that everyone should have the right
to leave this world with dignity.
But we, who believe that our lives are not only sacred, but also our own,
and that prolonging the suffering of someone who wishes to depart
is not an expression of love for the one who suffers,
will vote YES.
Rough translation goes like this:
A Song For The Right To Depart
When you no longer see any meaning in each day’s worsening suffering,
and when from your increasingly unbearable life
the only ones who profit are the shareholders of the pharmaceutical industry
and the professional promoters of the morality industry,
which lives off producing fear of false faith
and worse still — fear of human free will and choice,
the latter say that you must suffer until the end passes,
with painkillers and the miracles of medicine,
granted, not by any particularly natural path,
though this does not bother those who invoke the Creator,
and who oppose the idea that everyone should have the right
to leave this world with dignity.
But we, who believe that our lives are not only sacred, but also our own,
and that prolonging the suffering of someone who wishes to depart
is not an expression of love for the one who suffers,
will vote YES.
I’ve received some interesting questions about the execution. So, for those who are curious: no artificial intelligence was used for the cover, and no, I don’t have a “Zdravica” font—nor would it be very useful. I vectorized a scan of the manuscript and the two “censorship lines,” used every available variant of the letters, and made small adjustments to the remaining ones so there wouldn’t be any distracting repetition of forms or anything that looked like a font.
