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.
One in 14 deaths in the province of Quebec will be officially sanctioned and administered suicides by the end of 2023 if current rates persist.
Doctor-assisted suicide is no longer being treated as a last resort in some parts of Canada, according to a new report, with one province now reporting that as many as 7 percent of all deaths there will soon be at the hands of doctors or other health care practitioners charged with caring for their patients.
How cool is that? The world now speaks of Canada as some sort of suicide cult.
Quebec is hitting the brakes on its euthanasia program, warning of rising numbers of ‘non-compliant cases,’ and telling doctors to be more prudent about who gets a lethal injection.
DailyMail.com has seen an official memo to warn Quebec doctors about fatal jabs that shouldn’t have been allowed, and urging them to give patients more time to reconsider a monumental decision.
Quebec saw its number of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) cases rise to nearly 5,000 last year — making it a global euthanasia hotspot, where 7-8 percent of all deaths are due to lethal jabs.
A Vancouver woman who went to hospital seeking help for suicidal thoughts says she was further distressed by a clinician who unexpectedly suggested medical assistance in dying.
Kathrin Mentler, 37, lives with chronic depression and suicidality, both of which she says were exacerbated by a traumatic event early this year. Feeling particularly vulnerable in June, she went to Vancouver General Hospital looking for psychiatric help in dealing with feelings of hopelessness she feared she couldn’t shake.
My favourite Martin Amis novel was his 1991 book Time’s Arrow. It is a pyrotechnically brilliant work in which all time goes backwards. On publication it was criticised in some quarters because the novel includes a reverse version of the Holocaust and some thought Amis was using the Holocaust as a literary device. As so often, these transient critics didn’t get the point. It is hard to say anything new about the Holocaust or find any new angle on it.
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.
A health authority in British Columbia has been actively promoting euthanasia via a slideshow it has allegedly been emailing to healthy seniors’ groups, according to a recent report.
The PowerPoint slideshow was alleged to be from Fraser Health Authority, which is a large healthcare region in a suburban area of the Vancouver area. It was obtained by Will Potter of the Daily Mail, who detailed it in a report published July 1.
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.
Critics of euthanasia are sounding the alarm about Canada, Australia and the Netherlands, where assisted suicides are becoming easier to access for people who need help — not lethal injections.
The warning comes on the heels of revelations that the Netherlands euthanizes otherwise healthy people with autism, and as Australian officials debate whether to let children as young as 14 end their lives in the nation’s capital.
In Canada, with the world’s most permissive assisted suicide program, a quadriplegic woman has said she’s considering euthanasia because it’s easier to get than disability benefits.
Netherlands programs have euthanized otherwise healthy individuals with autism and intellectual handicaps in recent years, researchers have found.
Five individuals under the age of 30, who cited autism as a factor in their decision to seek legal euthanasia, are among the cases reviewed by specialists at the U.K.’s Kingston University.
I’m sure Canada’s Suicide Saviors will top that shortly.
It’s an ethically fraught scenario that’s becoming more common as the number of Canadians granted euthanasia grows: People pursuing assisted suicide are asking to donate one or more of their functioning organs upon their death to someone they know.
Canada reached a new high in the number of assisted suicides last year, registering a 34% increase in people opting to end their lives under the world’s most liberal euthanasia laws in just one year, the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday, June 7th. Anti-euthanasia activists blame the “heavy promotion” of assisted suicide for this steep incline.
