One third of Canadians are apparently fine with prescribing assisting suicide for no other reason than the fact that the patient is poor or homeless.
MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Canada shouldn’t deny assisted suicide if social conditions made life intolerable: bioethicists
The cases have drawn international criticism: People in Canada with non-terminal conditions choosing a doctor-assisted death after a fruitless search for better housing or proper medical care.
But a new paper by two University of Toronto bioethicists argues that, while the decisions may be “deeply tragic,” it would be wrong to deny medical assistance in dying (MAID) to people whose request is being driven most of all by poverty or other unjust conditions — “people who not only might, but have explicitly said” they would prefer not to die.
Monsters.
When 75 is time to die: the horrifically plausible film imagining state-run euthanasia in Japan
Japan’s ageing and lonely population is reaching crisis point. What’s the solution? The director of Plan 75, about a programme of voluntary suicide, explains why her film is ‘far from impossible’
Japan is ageing faster than any other country in the world, boasting one of the highest life expectancies. Women typically live to 87 and men to 81. Almost 40% of its population is over 60, a figure expected to continue expanding as the population shrinks. Couples in Japan now have an average of just 1.3 children – far below the 2.1 children societies need to remain stable.
Japan once placed its elderly at the top of the social hierarchy, even holding a national holiday to honour their contributions to society. But no longer: Fumio Kishida, the country’s prime minister, recently said the ageing population poses an “urgent risk to society”. Announcing a new government agency to address the issue, he said: “Japan is standing on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society.”
One in four Canadians support euthanasia on grounds of poverty
A significant minority want to extend the assisted dying programme
Over a quarter of Canadians believe that people should have access to euthanasia because of poverty, a new survey has found.
Currently, Canada’s federal guidelines for medical assistance in dying include having a grievous and irremediable medical condition, making a voluntary request for medical assistance in dying that is not the result of outside pressure or influence, and giving informed consent to receive medical assistance in dying.
The alarming spread of child euthanasia
A few weeks ago the Dutch parliament announced that euthanasia will be licensed for children between the ages of one and 12, for cases involving ‘such a serious illness or disorder that death is inevitable, and the death of these children is expected in the foreseeable future’. The coverage of this latest development was eerily muted, considering the enormity of what had just been communicated; namely, that a European liberal democracy had deemed it appropriate for seriously sick infants and primary school-aged children to receive lethal injections.
Meanwhile, over in Canada, two months prior to the Netherlands’ latest decree, a parliamentary committee recommended that Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) should be extended to ‘mature minors’.
Canadians adopting assisted death at 22 times the rate of Americans
Canadians are far more likely to end their lives by physician-assisted suicide than are Americans in the states where it’s legal.
And British Columbians could lead the world in streaming to this form of death.
The Canadian chef selling poison to suicidal youngsters
They call me God, boasted Kenneth Law as he told how ‘many, many, many’ of his customers had died
A Canadian chef has been supplying suicidal young people in Britain with a lethal poison to enable them to kill themselves, a Times investigation has found.
Kenneth Law has been sending the substance to vulnerable people around the world from a post office near Toronto for two years.
Up to seven deaths, including four in the UK, are linked to the poison, which we are not naming, that he sold on a website disguised to fool the authorities about its true purpose.
The Case Against ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’
Canada’s assisted-death law seems connected to the atomization of our society—as much a symptom of inhumanity as a cause.
Canadian law now permits something called “medical assistance in dying.” This practice, to be clear, is not palliative care. It does not refer to helping Canadians as they journey toward natural death by offering treatment to manage their pain and suffering. Medical assistance in dying—assisted death for short—is the deliberate act of ending a person’s life, typically through the administration of a lethal substance.
Dutch Euthanasia Deaths Soar, Mentally Ill Also Killed
Canada’s increasingly enthusiastic embrace of euthanasia has received most of the attention lately, but the Dutch also continue to blaze a path to the lethal practice’s normalization. Here are the latest concerning statistics, as reported by DutchNews
Judges are allowing Canadians to get away with murder in the name of ‘mercy killing’
On April 13, 2005, 19-year-old Katrina Effert secretly gave birth to a baby boy in the basement of her parents’ home in Wetaskiwin, Alberta. She then strangled the newborn child to death with her thong underwear and threw the corpse over the fence into her neighbor’s backyard.
On September 9, 2011, the CBC reported that Effert’s conviction for murder had been “downgraded” to infanticide, and she was sentenced merely to time served for improper disposal of a human corpse.
Thanks to Trudeau, Canada’s death-care system is top of the line
In February, Abbotsford Conservative Party MP Ed Fast introduced Bill C-314, the Mental Health Protection Act , which would quash the federal government’s (delayed) mental-health extension, without repealing the original “foreseeable death” principle. Nice try, but Sen. Stan Kutcher, prime mover of the mental-disorder expansion, says the issue is “decided.” In a culture where, to nattering nabobs, the words “slippery slope” conjure up not an avalanche, but a delightful toboggan ride.
The issue of expanding assisted dying eligibility ‘has already been decided’: senator
OTTAWA – The senator who pushed for Canada’s assisted dying regime to include people whose only condition is a mental disorder says the debate about that policy is now over.
“The issue of expansion has already been decided upon,” said Stan Kutcher, who sits with the Independent Senators Group.
As far as Kutcher is concerned, the what was determined two years ago, when his arguments in the Senate convinced the Liberal government to move forward with an expansion of eligibility.
EXPOSED: Euthanasia in Canada is now disguised as palliative care
Canada’s disturbing slide into offering euthanasia as standard medical practice marks another disconcerting milestone in the degradation of civil society. Even in cases where a person is not deemed terminally ill, Canadian patients and their guardians are now proffered the option of accepting and accelerating their deaths—all in the name of mercy.
How euthanasia has revived the death penalty
The Belgian state has once again authorised the killing of a prisoner, 105 years after its last peacetime execution.
Geneviève Lhermitte was an infamous murderer. She killed her son and four daughters, aged between three and 14, in Nivelles, Belgium on 28 February 2007. On 28 February 2023, she was euthanised, after she successfully invoked her ‘right to die’.
Don’t kill me, Canada
Last month, one of many Super Bowl ads called on Americans to say “Thank You” to Canada for all it has contributed to our world.
Unfortunately, one of those contributions is a disturbing devotion to euthanasia.
Euthanasia is defined as the intentional killing of a patient suffering from an “incurable and painful disease” or in an irreversible coma. The practice is still illegal in most countries; Canada is an exception.
Trudeau’s government calls for euthanasia program to ‘treat’ children with naysaying parents
Treat human life as anything less than sacred, and humanity is rapidly dehumanized.
Canada’s MAiD, like all medical homicide programs, is the metaphorical foot in the door, an obstinate wedge, breaking the seal of a once-closed divider. Or we call it what it is (genocide), and MAiD is like an axe-wielding Jack Nicholson in The Shining.