Assisted suicide now ranks alongside cardiovascular disease as Canada’s fifth leading cause of death.
When one thinks about the major causes of death for industrialized countries, a familiar number of ailments come to mind — cancer and heart disease, for instance. In the past few years, COVID has also ranked high in some countries’ mortality tables. But Canada has a new leading cause of death that is both shocking and surprising: death by doctor.
Swiss police say they have opened a criminal investigation and arrested several people after the suspected death of a woman in a so-called suicide capsule.
According to local reports, the capsule, named the Sarco Pod by its inventor, was used for the first time on Monday afternoon in a forest close to the German border in the Swiss town of Merishausen.
As Jennifer Brady climbs into inflatable pants that cover from her toes to her chest, she positions her water bottle on the table beside her and starts pushing buttons on a machine.
The device, called a Lympha Press, is designed to move the fluid in her legs. She spends at least five hours a day tied to the machine, unable to do anything else — including caring for her two children, ages nine and 13. She also wears compression garments 24 hours a day.
Quebecers who want to arrange a medically assisted death before their condition leaves them unable to grant consent can do so as of next month, the province announced Saturday as it unveiled details of a plan to grant such requests without waiting for Ottawa to update the country’s criminal code.
When the Supreme Court of Canada decriminalized euthanasia and assisted suicide, it tasked Parliament to create “a stringently limited, carefully monitored system of exceptions.” Instead, within a decade, Canada created the world’s largest and fastest-growing euthanasia program, a trend that we wrote about in a recent report for Cardus.
OTTAWA — A Charter challenge has been launched against the federal government over its decision not to allow those suffering solely from mental illness the ability to access an assisted-death.
On Monday, a statement of claim was issued at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by Dying with Dignity Canada, a national charity that advocates for people’s right to access the procedure, along with two individuals diagnosed with mental disorders who say it has filled their life with suffering.
How long before conservative political beliefs are legislated as a mental illness requiring involuntary “euthanasia”.
When Dylan Plakstis died of illicit fentanyl poisoning in December 2020, his mother Tammy Plakstis decided to donate the 29-year-old’s organs. Although Tammy Plakstis doesn’t regret granting the gift of life to another, she has begun to wonder whether fentanyl is being allowed to circulate nationally as a way to increase organ donations.
“It hurts my heart to think that but the thought has come to my mind,” Tammy Plakstis told The Epoch Times. “It could be a money thing. Fentanyl poisoning is an epidemic and crisis.”
Raymond J. de Souza: Euthanasia’s grisly transformation of the Canadian medical regime
My colleagues at Cardus have done a signal service in telling Canadians what the government does not want us to know, namely that euthanasia is far more widespread in the country than we think.
The study, entitled “From Exceptional to Routine: The Rise of Euthanasia in Canada,” was released this past week. The shift from exceptional to routine refers to the practice of euthanasia, which has exploded from 1,018 deaths nationally in 2016 to 13,241 in 2022, the last year for which data are available.
Monsters live among us.
Tired, in pain and worried about being a burden to his family, a 44-year-old Quebecer suffering from long COVID has requested medical assistance in dying.
To be legally eligible for MAID, one must have a serious and incurable illness, experience persistent and unbearable suffering, and make the request in a free and informed manner. Since 2021, in Canada, people whose natural death is not reasonably foreseeable are eligible.
This fast-moving graph might shock you. ⚠️
Hit play to see the rapid rise in euthanasia in #Canada. Canada is now the world’s fastest-growing assisted-dying program. 🍁
Read the full report right here: https://t.co/arFWeLzGL0 pic.twitter.com/8K0KYRQYcj
— Cardus (@cardusca) August 7, 2024
Despite promises of a “stringently limited, carefully monitored system of exceptions,” medically-assisted death is now the fifth-leading cause of death in Canada, says a newly-released report.
The report, released this week by Canadian think-tank Cardus, paints a bleak portrait of Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) regime, which according to the report has seen a thirteen-fold rise in participants since its 2016 legalization.
h/t Mauser & Patti Jo
Canada’s assisted dying regime could provide a cover for medical staff with “serially homicidal personalities,” according to a controversial paper critics say provides no evidence patients could be preyed upon by criminal medical murderers.
“Canada’s MAID (medical assistance in dying) system is criticized as the most permissive or least safeguarded in the world, raising the question of whether it could protect patients who fit the clinical profile of adult victims of HSK (health-care serial killers) from a killer working as a MAID provider,” Christopher Lyon, a Canadian social scientist who teaches at the University of York in the United Kingdom, wrote in a newly published paper.
Many years ago, aged 19, I travelled alone out of Kathmandu where I had been living as a bum for some months, my destination being the ancient temple complex of Bhaktapur. On the way, my tuk-tuk driver stopped at a small settlement to buy some bottled water. As I refreshed myself with a cold drink, I looked around at the little village beyond the staring faces of gathering residents. I decided that Bhaktapur could wait a day; I wanted to stay the night there in that village. With the locals, I communicated with big smiles, positive sounding noises, and the universal sign for ‘good’: giving a thumbs-up. Soon, my tuk-tuk driver was heading back to the capital without me, and I had found somewhere to sleep. Some villagers led me up a hill at whose foot their primitive buildings were strewn. A little way up, I was brought to a small hut wherein the elders sat.
An assisted dying group expects a new portable suicide pod to be used for the first time in Switzerland potentially within months to provide death without medical supervision, they said Wednesday.
The space-age looking Sarco capsule first unveiled in 2019 replaces the oxygen inside of it with nitrogen, causing death by hypoxia.
As we await the federal government’s release of Canada’s 2023 euthanasia data, last week British Columbia released it’s 2023 provincial euthanasia data.
According to the BC Medical Assistance in Dying 2023 report there were 2,767 reported assisted deaths, up by 10 percent from 2,515 in 2022.
It is concerning that “other conditions” represented 32.9 percent of the BC assisted deaths in 2023. Other conditions were reported under these categories:
Autoimmune Condition 2.4%, Chronic Pain 24.8%, Diabetes 9.8%, Frailty 60.5%, Other Comorbidities* 52.1%.
Frailty? Cripes they’ll be running over Granny and her walker at crosswalks soon.
For Wiebe, medical assistance in dying (MAID) is “incredibly rewarding” work. She hasn’t faced nearly the same sort of stigma she once faced as an abortion provider and says that while she and her MAID colleagues “all work within the law,” she’s also not as “conservative” as some.
Abortionist and “Mercy” killer. Quite a resume.
Tracy Polewczuk has spina bifida, a birth defect that can cause weak bones. Two years ago, she was in an accident and broke her leg. The injury never properly healed.
She says she lives in constant pain and relies on daily home care visits from the Pointe-Claire CLSC, but recently, she says the care has been getting worse.
“They don’t bother asking like they know your name, but they don’t address you. It’s just so impersonal, and they don’t care,” Polewczuk said in a recent interview. “You get up when they tell you to. You go to bed when they tell you. You do what they tell you to. That’s it. You have zero control over your life.”
