An American man dying of heart failure received the heart of a Canadian man with ALS who chose a medically assisted death in what is being described as a landmark case of a heart transplant following euthanasia.
Organs have been donated after MAID before, involving liver, kidney or lung transplants.
When Perry MacDonald heard that Canadian author Robert Munsch had requested Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) after his diagnoses with dementia and Parkinson’s disease, it touched a nerve.
Munsch recently explained to the New York Times that, under Canadian law, recipients of MAID must be able to actively consent on the day of their death. “I have to pick the moment when I can still ask for it,” he said. If he waited too long, he added, talking to his wife, “you’re stuck with me being a lump.”
Members of Ontario’s government-appointed medical assistance in dying (MAID) review panel are raising concerns about doctors’ eligibility determinations under the expanded rules, noting that in some cases, patients qualified for assisted death after refusing available health care.
The review of three recent MAID cases has prompted “significant” discussion among members of Ontario’s MAID Death Review Committee, as some of the patients involved had conditions that could have improved if they had accepted care, according to the committee’s latest report, titled “Evaluating Incurability, Advanced State of Irreversible Decline in Capability, and Reasonably Foreseeable Natural Death.”
A severely obese woman in her 60s who sought euthanasia due to her “no longer having a will to live” and a widower whose request to have his life ended was mainly driven by emotional distress and grief over his dead spouse are the latest cases to draw concerns that some doctors are taking an overly broad interpretation of the law.
JOLIETTE – In nearly 30 years as a palliative care physician, Dr. Nathalie Allard has provided end-of-life care in busy hospital hallways, and consulted with families with only a curtain separating them from sick people screaming or vomiting on the other side.
On Thursday, she attended the opening of a brand-new palliative care facility northeast of Montreal that represents the kind of place where she wants to work and, one day, to die.
“It’s my workplace — and my final resting place, probably,” she said cheerfully while giving a tour. “Me, I’m going to die.”
A growing demand for MAID. From who and for what reasons exactly?
Elaina Plott Calabro wrote an exposé on Canada’s euthanasia law that was published in the September edition of The Atlantic titled, Canada is Killing Itself. The article is too long to comment on in one article, so I am writing a series of articles covering the important points.
Almost half of Canadians who sought medical assistance in dying (MAID) in 2023 whose death was not reasonably foreseeable cited “isolation or loneliness” as part of their eligibility criteria, according to Canada’s annual report on euthanasia.
The Fifth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada found that 21.1 percent of Canadians in the Track 1 category, where their deaths were “reasonably foreseeable,” cited loneliness and isolation as a reason for seeking MAID. For Track 2, that number was 47.1 percent.
A B.C. hospice society that had its public funding and building seized by the government for refusing to allow euthanasia onsite is now seeking a “sanctuary” location in rural Alberta for its new facility.
Delta Hospice Society (DHS) President Angelina Ireland said efforts to build a new palliative care home in B.C. have gone nowhere, forcing the society to pursue options elsewhere.
In the brilliant book MASH, by Richard Hooker (real name H. Richard Hornberger), Captain Walter “The Painless Pole” Waldowski, a brilliant, handsome, and priapic surgical dentist, suffers from what today would be diagnosed as bipolarism, periodically becoming deeply depressed. His doctor friends offer him the ultimate suicide, complete with a huge party and a painless final shot. In fact, it’s a con, for they simply knock him out to help him sleep off his depression, and they even give the well-endowed dentist a blue ribbon award while he sleeps. All ends well.
A New York Times op-ed advocates for taking organs from people who are in comas to improve transplant rates.
In a July 30, 2025, op-ed, the authors say that we should broaden the definition of death “to include irreversibly comatose patients on life support. Using this definition, these patients would be legally dead regardless of whether a machine restored the beating of their heart.”
Scott Adams, author of the comic strip Dilbert, recently disclosed that he had planned to end his life due to the pain of his untreatable cancer. In May, he announced that he only expected to live a few more months. At the time, alternative treatments were no help.
He scheduled his suicide for June 29.
People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.
A surgeon made an incision in her chest and sawed through her breastbone.
That’s when the doctors discovered her heart was beating. She appeared to be breathing. They were slicing into Ms. Hawkins while she was alive.
Last spring at a small Alabama hospital, a team of transplant surgeons prepared to cut into Misty Hawkins. The clock was ticking. Her organs wouldn’t be usable for much longer.
Days earlier, she had been a vibrant 42-year-old with a playful sense of humor and a love for the Thunder Beach Motorcycle Rally. But after Ms. Hawkins choked while eating and fell into a coma, her mother decided to take her off life support and donate her organs. She was removed from a ventilator and, after 103 minutes, declared dead.
Even the UN has described Canada’s assisted suicide program as ‘state-sponsored eugenics’ and called upon the government to curtail plans to expand euthanasia access.
In Canada, we kill the disabled. Over 90 percent of babies diagnosed with Down syndrome in the womb are aborted; pre-born children diagnosed with other disabilities usually meet the same fate. But for decades, our Nazi-style lethal ableism was limited to those not yet born.
With the expansion of euthanasia eligibility to those suffering solely from disability or mental illness scheduled to come into effect in 2027, that is slated to change. Disability groups have been nearly unanimous in their condemnation of this plan, which has been delayed twice by the Liberal government due to pushback from across Canadian society – but not cancelled entirely.
Glenn Beck speaks with Delta Hospice Society Executive Director Angelina Ireland about Canada’s growing fascism.
h/t handy n’ handsome!
The inhuman campaign to cull the elderly, disabled and mentally infirm lives on in ‘progressive’ clothing.
In a letter dated 1 October 1940, Helene M wrote to her father from an asylum in the southern German town of Stetten (1). An epileptic, Helene had been chosen for ‘transport to another facility’. But, in the context of Nazi Germany, she knew what that really meant.
‘Today I must write these words of farewell as I leave this earthly life for an eternal home’, she wrote. ‘I do not want to part from you without asking you and all my dear brothers and sisters once more for forgiveness, for all that I have failed you in throughout my whole life. May the dear Lord God accept my illness and this sacrifice as a penance for this.’
