MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

The story of euthanasia in Canada continues to be written. A developing angle of this story is whether faith-based health-care facilities — and by extension any health-care facility — can decline to offer euthanasia, on the view that this practice is a type of killing and therefore unconnected to health care.

This issue flared up last summer, when St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver declined to provide euthanasia to a terminal patient, who was ultimately transferred to a facility that would perform euthanasia.

… While 77 per cent of Canadians surveyed by the Leger polling firm support Canada’s current medical assistance in dying policy, only 42 per cent could get behind expanding the eligibility to people who suffer exclusively from intractable mental-health conditions.

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to revoke the planned expansion of medical assistance in dying (MAID) for people suffering solely from mental illnesses if he forms government.

“We will not expand MAID to include mental illness. So, where Justin Trudeau has delayed this decision until after the election, we will revoke it entirely,” he told reporters on Thursday in Vancouver, B.C.

It’s wrong to stop people from accessing MAiD for mental illness as a sole underlying condition. I deserve the same rights as other patients.

A special joint committee of MPs and senators has tabled its report to Parliament, recommending a delay in expanding the health-care system to offer medical assistance in dying (MAiD) for persons with mental disorders as their sole underlying medical condition. On Thursday, federal Health Minister Mark Holland introduced legislation to postpone this expansion of MAiD until March 2027.

The Liberal government introduced legislation Thursday that will delay the expansion of assisted dying to include those suffering solely from mental illness to 2027.

Health Minister Mark Holland introduced the legislation and Justice Minister Arif Virani told reporters that the delay was needed until Canada’s health-care system is ready to implement the expansion.

“Because of the significance of the decision, because of the nature of the consequences of this kind of policy; we have to ensure that we get it right, and we’re determined to do just that,” Virani said.

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The goal of the Nazi Euthanasia Program was to kill people with mental and physical disabilities. In the Nazi view, this would cleanse the “Aryan” race of people considered genetically defective and a financial burden to society.

The Liberal Party’s zeal for the state sanctioned murder of the “unfit” is not unique in history.

“Canada is only weeks away from legalizing assisted suicide for Canadians whose only underlying condition is mental illness. There are reports that assisted death is already being offered to Canadians who are suicidal.”

“And MAID advocates are already speaking openly about extending physician-assisted death to children as young as 12.”

Surge in medically assisted deaths under Canada’s MAID program outpaces every other country

The number of Canadians ending their lives through medically assisted death has grown at a speed that outpaces every other nation in the world.

As Canada is poised to expand eligibility criteria under medical assistance in dying (MAID) legislation, data from all 11 countries where the controversial end-of-life treatment exists shows Canada is the fastest-growing adopter in history, an analysis by the Investigative Journalism Bureau and the Toronto Star has found.

Trudeau can make people want to kill themselves.

h/t RH

‘Assisted dying’, as it is euphemistically called, is often sold as a more compassionate, civilised alternative to suffering at the end of life. Those still gripped by this delusion should take a look at Justin Trudeau’s Canada, where so-called assisted dying has become a gruesome, state-sanctioned industry.

The Church of England has warned that countries where assisted dying is legal have shown that it can lead to a “slippery slope” where it becomes easier and easier to get help to end one’s life.

In a submission to MPs, the Church said that when the law had been changed in other countries, such as Canada and the US, stringent safeguards had been dropped over time, opening up assisted dying to more and more people.

Canada has become world famous for a lot of crappy things under Trudeau.

Euthanasia has been reduced to a bureaucratic detail

Canadian leader Justin Trudeau recently launched a new suicide hotline. Internet jokers wondered whether its aim is to dissuade or to find new takers for Canada’s notoriously liberal state-supported euthanasia programme. Surely it is paradoxical for the same government to offer both pro and anti-suicide services?

It goes by the almost innocuous name of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID): it’s MAID in Canada.

The federal government does not want to call MAID a euthanasia program because of the negative connotation that word has to murderous, totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany. It may be a voluntary euthanasia program, unlike the coercive program unleashed by the Nazis on their oppressed society, but “euthanasia” should still induce a chill in our spines and nausea in our stomachs.

Scarcely a week goes by in Canada without another gut-wrenching story emerging from the frontlines of our euthanasia regime. There is Rosina, the young woman who opted for assisted suicide because of her crippling loneliness; she selected the day of her death, September 25, 2021, because it was the birthday of her ex-husband. There is the man requesting assisted suicide because he cannot get the back surgery he needs; the young mother who sees euthanasia as one of her only options because she cannot get coverage for the treatment she desperately needs; the 44-year-old Winnipeg woman who opted for euthanasia because she could not get home care.