MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
The Horrors of Assisted Suicide
Lorenz Kraus’s alleged murders underscore the inhuman logic of New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act.
Sitting on New York governor Kathy Hochul’s desk is a bill that would legalize assisted suicide in New York. For years, a small group of assisted-suicide activists, usually bedecked in yellow, have lined the hallways of the capitol, urging lawmakers to show “compassion” for New Yorkers so that they can “die with dignity.” This past spring, the legislature acquiesced to their demands with the Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) Act, which would allow people with terminal diagnoses to request lethal drugs.
MAiD in Ontario had years of rapid growth. Here’s what the new numbers show
After years of exponential growth in the year-to-year increase of Ontarians accessing medical assistance in dying (MAiD), the rate appears to have reached a plateau, according to new numbers provided by the Office of the Chief Coroner.
The stabilizing growth rate means MAiD deaths are moving toward a “predictable, steady share of overall mortality” in Canada, according to some analysts — who argued the data counters claims that the uptake of MAiD is increasing too rapidly.
They kill people for being depressed.
MAID in Canada: Euthanasia Organ Harvesting ‘Surges’
An American man in late-stage heart failure received a donor heart from a 38-year-old Canadian man with ALS killed earlier this year under that country’s decade-old euthanasia law. It’s the first-ever heart transplant from a Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) donor.
“The case involved a 59-year-old man with rapidly worsening heart failure who wasn’t expected to survive more than a month,” Canada’s National Post reported, and “the time from retrieval to transplant was five hours and 28 minutes.”
Canada has lost the plot on MAID
When the Canadian government passed legislation nearly a decade ago to approve medical assistance in dying (MAID), it was an exercise in compassion. A competent Canadian adult suffering from an “irremediable medical condition,” whose death was “reasonably foreseeable,” would no longer have to suffer; MAID would offer a way to avoid the unnecessary pain, the loss of dignity and the loss of autonomy that often comes with natural death. In narrow circumstances and with strict safeguards, MAID could expedite a process that was already occurring.
Canada is turning its assisted suicide regime into an organ donation supply chain
The heart of a 38-year-old Canadian man who was euthanized was successfully harvested and donated to a 59-year-old American man with heart failure, according to the National Post. The case highlights a growing trend: organs being harvested from euthanasia victims.
Dementia patient gets MAID after family member ‘brought forward’ the request
A frail women in her late 80s with dementia received MAID after a family member “brought forward” a request for an assisted death, a new report reveals.
The woman’s life was ended after a MAID provider deemed the woman had given her final expressed consent to proceed, based on her ability to repeat a question and squeeze the provider’s hand.
So many little Mengele’s.
The systematic euthanasia of elderly patients
IN SPITE of the 2013 Neuberger Report calling for an end of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) current end-of-life ‘care’ (EOLC) pathways are continuing the LCP methodology and medications.
EOLC pathways are standard ‘care’ for those perceived as dying throughout the NHS and its nursing homes. It is claimed that these pathways do not cause death, and there have been no statistics published of patients dying on EOLC pathways because they are not mentioned on death certificates.
Recent research has shown that during the covid pandemic in the United Kingdom there were two major peaks of mortality, one in April 2020 and the second in January 2021.
American man gets heart from 38-year-old Ontario ALS patient who died by MAID
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.
A grieving brother wants to change MAID laws. An expert says it’s not so easy
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.”
Ontario Panel Questions MAID Eligibility as Report Says Some Recipients Refused Health Care
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.”
Some of Canada’s latest MAID recipients: An obese woman and a grieving widower
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.
Facilities in new Quebec end-of-life care home highlight growing demand for MAID
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?
SICK: Canadian doctors admit assisted suicide is ‘energizing’
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.
Nearly Half of MAID Recipients Whose Deaths Not ‘Reasonably Foreseeable’ Cited Loneliness in 2023: Annual Report
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.