Suicide activists in Canada, along with those who support euthanasia, initially promised the citizens of their nation that the road toward “medical aid in dying” would be a very narrow one that would have protections on either side to prevent society from flying over the edge and into the proverbial ditch. Well, it seems those individuals were telling whoppers. In reality, it’s a wide path leading to destruction and it doesn’t appear anyone is watching to warn drivers they are headed into oblivion.
According to the folks at Prophecy News Watch, the Associated Press revealed in a piece published on October 16 that contained a story about a homeless man who was put to death by lethal injection. This is truly sick and disturbing:
One doctor wrote that although his patient had a serious lung disease, his suffering was “mostly because he is homeless, in debt and cannot tolerate the idea of (long-term care) of any kind.” A respondent questioned whether the fear of living in the nursing home was truly intolerable. Another said the prospect of “looking at the wall or ceiling waiting to be fed … to have diapers changed” was sufficiently painful. The man was eventually euthanized. One provider said any suggestion they should provide patients with better housing options before offering euthanasia “seems simply unrealistic and hence, cruel,” amid a national housing crisis.
Yes, you read that correctly. A man had an illness and was homeless, so they opted to kill him instead of helping him. And this is considered the humane thing to do because of a housing crisis in the country. They killed this man for “the greater good” of their society. Sound familiar? It’s how all socialists talk. When you no longer serve a purpose they deem valuable to their idea of how life and culture should be, you’re put out to pasture like cattle.
And this is the inevitable outcome of a society that is built on socialistic principles such as free housing, free healthcare, free food, etc. It’s the outcome of what liberals want to put in place right here in our own backyard.
Another story shared in the article chronicles a doctor debating as to whether or not being obese should qualify someone for assisted suicide.
One woman with severe obesity described herself as a “useless body taking up space” – she’d lost interest in activities, became socially withdrawn and said she had “no purpose,” according to the doctor who reviewed her case. Another physician reasoned that euthanasia was warranted because obesity is “a medical condition which is indeed grievous and irremediable.”
And perhaps the most chilling story of all is the case of a woman who was consistently pushed into accepting death:
When a health worker inquired whether anyone had euthanized patients for blindness, one provider reported four such cases. In one, they said, an elderly man who saw “only shadows” was his wife’s caregiver when he requested euthanasia; he wanted her to die with him. The couple had several appointments with an assessor before the wife “finally agreed” to be killed, the provider said. She died unexpectedly just days before the scheduled euthanasia.
Probably from the terror of being pushed into killing herself. And this isn’t even the worst of it. Linda Maddaford, who is now the newly elected president of the Regina Catholic Women’s League, shared her family’s experience earlier this month while speaking at the Catholic Health Association of Saskatchewan convention. This is harrowing.
After her mother passed away, Maddaford’s family moved their father to a care facility in Saskatoon. “The very day after, we got a blanket email inviting us to come to a presentation in the dining room,” she said. The topic? Accessing euthanasia. Maddaford added that there is a “push from the top-down. That if you don’t – if you aren’t open to the idea; you should be. I worry for the people who feel the pressure of: ‘Well my doctor advised it.’ Or ‘someone with a clipboard came around and kept asking.'”
Another story, covered this month by the Telegraph, relayed the experience of a Canadian woman undergoing life-saving cancer surgery… who was offered assisted suicide by doctors as she was about to enter the operating room for her mastectomy.
You’d think the ick factor of all this would make those who are proponents of assisted suicide and euthanasia take a step back and reassess their position. Nope. None of these stories have phased them at all it seems. Quite the opposite. They are actually pushing for more.
The Financial Post published an article written by Andrew Roman called, “You should be able to reserve MAID service: Quebec is going to let people pre-order medical assistance in dying. Ottawa shouldn’t try to stop it. People should have that right.” A person who wants to call suicide, self-murder, over conditions that can be treated and overcome such as homelessness, obesity, disability, grief, and on the list goes, as a “right” should be noted and avoided. And yet, in the article, the author tries to make the case that if this isn’t allowed, all kinds of older folk suffering from dementia won’t be killed. Just read that again and again until the absurdity and immorality of it settles into your mind.
As Canada’s population continues to age, demand for MAiD – medical assistance in dying – will only increase. But, with rates of dementia also increasing, the cognitive ability of patients to consent becomes a barrier. The prevalence of dementia more than doubles every five years among seniors, rising from less than one per cent in those aged 65-69 to about 25 per cent among people 85 and older. There is no good reason why, with the numerous safeguards in Ottawa’s and Quebec’s laws, patients should be precluded from making advance requests before their condition renders them incapable of giving consent; and no good reason why their physicians should become criminals for honouring their patients’ duly stipulated advance requests.
MAiD is also regulated under provincial law and by the same medical colleges that regulate abortion. Ottawa should amend the Criminal Code to exempt MAiD altogether and, as is the case with abortion, let the medical profession do its work in accordance with provincial regulation and patients’ wishes.
Sickening.
The value of life has deteriorated to such a degree that there are now people that exist on this planet arguing for making euthanasia on demand a real thing. If you’re not the praying type, please reconsider. This world is in desperate need of intercession before the throne of God.
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