Our message is ‘Do not come around us suggesting euthanasia’ when we are in a vulnerable, defenseless position.
MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Fewer than half of Canadians support assisted death for mental disorders but we’re still a pretty suicide happy bunch: poll
Canadians appear uncertain about extending medical assistance in dying to children or those with a mental disorder, according to a new poll that suggests the public is not as galvanized around MAID as the government looks to broaden eligibility.
The ever-expanding goalposts of euthanasia in Canada
Struggling with housing or inflation? Waiting in pain for a hip replacement in “the world’s greatest health-care system”?
If you can’t live with dignity in Canada, take comfort that you can die with ostensible dignity.
In our endeavour to maximize individual liberty, euthanasia has become an inalienable Canadian right.
Canada’s ‘expert’ panel recommends the mentally ill be candidates for euthanasia
Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) law is already the most permissive euthanasia and assisted-suicide legislation in the world.
Can we “volunteer” Trudeau? Our euthanasia legislation seems to be morphing into eugenics.
Canada looks to expand assisted suicide law to include mental illness
Although considered among the most permissive euthanasia and assisted suicide legislation in the world, Canada is poised to introduce mental illnesses to the country’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) legislation.
“… Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) law is the most permissive euthanasia and assisted-suicide legislation in the world. The United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, the UN independent expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, and the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, have all warned our Canadian government that our MAiD law will lead to human rights violations.”
Ontario woman enduring effects of long COVID begins process for medically assisted death
Contracting COVID-19 radically changed Tracey Thompson’s life. It’s been more than two years since the initial infection, but her symptoms still dictate her days, leaving her with heavy-weighted fatigue, robbing her of energy and her ability to work.
Thompson, a Toronto resident in her 50s, says the enduring illness and lack of substantive financial support has led her to begin the process of applying for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), a procedure that first became legal in Canada in 2016.
“[MAiD] is exclusively a financial consideration,” she told CTV News Toronto.
New Canadian bill would let doctors euthanize patients who signed up to die years in advance
Saskatchewan Senator and former news broadcast icon, Pamela Wallin, is offering Canadians an unthinkable choice in her newly tabled Bill S-248. It is the choice to allow a doctor or nurse to kill you in the future.
Under Bill S-248, if you are ill or disabled, you can sign an advanced directive that authorizes your healthcare provider to act as Grim Reaper once they determine you are incapacitated. Your death will be in their hands – and you can’t change your mind!
Canadian Bill Would Allow Doctors to Euthanize Dementia Patients
The Netherlands and Belgium already permit people diagnosed with dementia to sign an advance directive ordering themselves killed when they become incapacitated. This has even resulted in one case in which such a patient was euthanized despite resisting — and the government responded by changing the law to enable death-doctors to drug and euthanize such patients without permission.
Now Canada — which last year greatly loosened the criteria for euthanasia — may be on the verge of taking the same path. A bill has been filed in the Senate that would permit patients to order themselves killed without final consent if they become mentally incapacitated.
WEF Now Suggest Seniors off Themselves “For the Children”
In the height of hypocrisy of “for the children” the World Economic Forum is now complaining about overpopulation and/or suggesting that older people consider euthanasia “for the children”. In a video seen on Twitter full of geriatrics saying they’ve had a good life after explaining there’s too many humans on the planet. The video suggests that elderly folks who no longer are productive should opt for euthanasia. I’m certain children all over the world are thankful their grandparents will be suggested to off themselves for their benefit.
Klaus Schwab is 83; Christine Lagarde is 65. Just sayin’.
Assisted deaths of two Canadian women living in poverty puts spotlight on euthanasia laws
Critics argue laws are being misused to punish the poor but experts say cases represent country’s failure to care for its most vulnerable citizens
After pleading unsuccessfully for affordable housing to help ease her chronic health condition, a Canadian woman ended her life in February under the country’s assisted-suicide laws. Another woman, suffering from the same condition and also living on disability payments, has nearly reached final approval to end her life.
The two high-profile cases have prompted disbelief and outrage, and shone a light on Canada’s right-to-die laws, which critics argue are being misused to punish the poor and infirm. In late April, the Spectator ran a story with the provocative headline: Why is Canada euthanising the poor?
But medical and legal experts caution that oversimplified media coverage of the cases fail to capture the realities of the system – and warn that sensationalist coverage of a handful of “extreme” cases ignores a larger crisis in the country’s healthcare systems.
In Canada, death is cheap
Disabled people are opting for assisted suicide to escape grinding poverty.
Canada refers to ‘euthanasia’ and ‘assisted suicide’ by the friendlier-sounding term of ‘medical assistance in dying’ (MAID). The MAID programme was first introduced to end the suffering of terminally ill people, but its mission creep is now undeniable.
Denise (not her real name), a 31-year-old Toronto woman who uses a wheelchair, is nearing final approval for a medically assisted death. She only applied after her many attempts to move from her apartment, which she says worsens her severe sensitivities to household chemicals, all failed. She told Canada’s CTV News earlier this week that she was ‘relieved and elated’ by the likelihood of the approval. ‘I was scared that they weren’t going to say yes.’
Brian Bird: Euthanasia is a runaway train in Canada. It’s time to hit the brakes.
Next year, Canadians suffering solely from mental illness may be eligible for medically assisted death. A parliamentary committee will release a report by June with recommendations on how this and other potential changes to Canada’s laws on euthanasia might be implemented. Rather than suggest how to go about these changes, this committee should recommend that we not go about them at all. Euthanasia should not be further expanded in Canada.
The Canadian Government Is Euthanizing People Who Have Nothing Wrong With Them
One woman’s case shows how Canada’s euthanasia laws tend towards suicide on demand.
In March of 2021, the Canadian Parliament passed the world’s most liberal euthanasia law. The law scrapped the previous requirement that a person’s death be foreseeable. No longer would assisted suicide hurry death along. Now, it would prescribe death to people with decades left to live so long as their disease was deemed “grievous and irremediable.”
Millions of Canadians now qualify to receive what the government terms “medical assistance in dying,” or MAID, Dr. John Maher, a psychiatrist in Ontario, told The American Spectator. Any serious health problem can be enough to justify it. And starting in 2023, Canadians will also be able to receive MAID because of mental illnesses.