Lewis was a candidate for euthanasia and that if her mother chose not to pursue it, that would be “selfish,”
Depressed? Lonely? Having trouble getting out of the house? Just kill yourself or have the government do it for you. Underage? Mentally unstable? The Canadian government will kill you too. No extra charge.
“Canada should expand assisted dying to include mature minors and patients with mental illnesses”
Mature minors who will never mature.
Senator Pamela Wallin, a committee member who supports expansion of assisted dying, said the system has many safeguards. “MAID is always a matter of choice,” she said, noting that, in surveys, Canadians have expressed strong support for advance requests. “Let’s hope the government now acts quickly to answer the needs of Canadians.”
Act now. Canadians eager to die are standing by.
First passed in 2016, Canada’s assisted dying legislation at first allowed only people with foreseeable deaths to receive euthanasia. That was changed in 2021, following a court case, to include patients with incurable conditions who were suffering intolerably.
And that turned out to mean nearly everyone.
Alan Nichols had a history of depression and other medical issues, but none were life-threatening. When the 61-year-old Canadian was hospitalized in June 2019 over fears he might be suicidal, he asked his brother to “bust him out” as soon as possible.
Within a month, Nichols submitted a request to be euthanized and he was killed, despite concerns raised by his family and a nurse practitioner.
His application for euthanasia listed only one health condition as the reason for his request to die: hearing loss.
Hearing loss.
They say he was not taking needed medication, wasn’t using the cochlear implant that helped him hear, and that hospital staffers improperly helped him request euthanasia.
“Alan was basically put to death,” his brother Gary Nichols said.
Feeling blue? Ask your local nurse practitioner if death is right for you.
Canada is the only country that allows nurse practitioners, not just doctors, to end patients’ lives.
The association of Canadian health professionals who provide euthanasia tells physicians and nurses to inform patients if they might qualify to be killed, as one of their possible “clinical care options.”
Socialized medicine is a beautiful thing. No one will be left without care options. Like death.
Roger Foley, who has a degenerative brain disorder and is hospitalized in London, Ontario, was so alarmed by staffers mentioning euthanasia that he began secretly recording some of their conversations.
In one recording obtained by the AP, the hospital’s director of ethics told Foley that for him to remain in the hospital, it would cost “north of $1,500 a day.” Foley replied that mentioning fees felt like coercion and asked what plan there was for his long-term care.
“Roger, this is not my show,” the ethicist responded. “My piece of this was to talk to you, (to see) if you had an interest in assisted dying.”
Foley said he had never previously mentioned euthanasia. The hospital says there is no prohibition on staff raising the issue.
Say what you will about some of our HMOs and hospitals, they haven’t gotten to the point of being quite this publicly blatant. Lefties who complain about big bills apparently prefer big bills and a side order of death.
Candice Lewis, a 25-year-old woman who has cerebral palsy and spina bifida. Lewis’ mother, Sheila Elson, took her to an emergency room in Newfoundland five years ago. During her hospital stay, a doctor said Lewis was a candidate for euthanasia and that if her mother chose not to pursue it, that would be “selfish,” Elson told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Remember, when Bernie, Warren and that lot talk about how America needs socialized medicine and how it would be the compassionate thing to do. Remember this is the species of compassion they have in mind.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
What Canada has is not “socialized medicine” – whatever that imprecise term may mean. Every Western country except the US has some form of health system that ensures people don’t have to die or suffer prolonged illness or pain simply because they are too poor to pay the doctors. Americans don’t talk about “socialized education”, but everyone believes education is a basic right from which nobody need be too poor to benefit. The evil contemporary urging of euthanasia on the sick and disabled is not because medical help is available to all in Canada, but because the society in which it operates has become spiritually dead. Satan is behind the push for people to kill themselves, and for medical personnel to suggest death as a reasonable alternative to getting medical care. Only the Evil One, not the health system, is the culprit here.