MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

The parents of a woman who died after doctors refused to allow her to travel abroad for treatment have overturned a court order so she can be named.

Sudiksha Thirumalesh was 19 when she died a few days ago at an NHS hospital.

At the end of last month, a High Court judge ruled that despite being conscious and speaking to her parents and doctors, Thirumalesh lacked sufficient mental capacity to challenge the medics’ view as to whether life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn.

I am acquainted with the forlorn hope of clinical trials.

The Hippocratic oath explicitly prohibits doctor participation in euthanasia/assisted suicide. But doctors don’t take the great oath anymore, precisely because (in part) it conflicts with modern sensibilities that doctors can be ethical takers of human life.

A 2021 law has increased pressure on the state’s hospice programs to provide assistance in dying.

Despite attempts by California’s disability rights groups, religious groups, and pro-life health care workers to provide patient protections from the power of the burgeoning assisted suicide industry in the state, there was a 63 percent increase in the number of assisted suicide deaths last year, and a 47 percent increase in the number of prescriptions for lethal drugs prescribed by physicians.

In 1936 some of Canada’s most prominent citizens convened to hear how their country faced “extinction” unless they were willing to sterilize the “feeble-minded,” the “indigent” and the “degenerate.”

A progressive passion.

TORONTO (Reuters) – Lisa Pauli wants to die.

The 47-year-old has wrestled with the eating disorder anorexia for decades; she says she has had a warped relationship with her body since age 8.

These days, Pauli says, she weighs 92 pounds and may go days without eating solid food. She says she is too weak to carry groceries home without stopping for breaks

I’m an English-born Anglican priest who has lived in Canada for 35 years. I regard myself as an orthodox Christian but I suppose I’ve a certain reputation as a liberal on many issues. Philosopher Kathleen Stock rather dismissed me recently in one of her columns as a “progressive clergyman” and the Christian socialist MP Wes Streeting tweeted extremely generously that if he could recommend a single book to support the Christian acceptance of same-sex marriage it would be mine.

OMG I agree with Michael Coren…!

The Canadian province of Ontario has seen deaths by state-sanctioned euthanasia skyrocket by 25 percent in the first five months of 2023, meaning the province is on track to see a whopping 5,000 die via the grim procedure this year alone.

According to up-to-date information posted online by the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC), Ontario saw some 1,866 deaths by medical assistance in dying (MAiD) from January to May 2023. By comparison, in the first five months of 2022, 1,488 people died by MAiD.

Governments normally like to trumpet the progress of their legislation, yet the latest ministerial update on the extension of the medical assistance in dying (MAID) law, to cover people with mental disorders, was delivered with all the amplification of a tin whistle.