Posted on 08/11/2025 9:43:57 AM PDT by ransomnote
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When Canada’s Parliament in 2016 legalized the practice of euthanasia—Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID, as it’s formally called—it launched an open-ended medical experiment. One day, administering a lethal injection to a patient was against the law; the next, it was as legitimate as a tonsillectomy, but often with less of a wait. MAID now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada—more than Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined—surpassing countries where assisted dying has been legal for far longer.
It is too soon to call euthanasia a lifestyle option in Canada, but from the outset it has proved a case study in momentum. MAID began as a practice limited to gravely ill patients who were already at the end of life. The law was then expanded to include people who were suffering from serious medical conditions but not facing imminent death. In two years, MAID will be made available to those suffering only from mental illness. Parliament has also recommended granting access to minors.
At the center of the world’s fastest-growing euthanasia regime is the concept of patient autonomy. Honoring a patient’s wishes is of course a core value in medicine. But here it has become paramount, allowing Canada’s MAID advocates to push for expansion in terms that brook no argument, refracted through the language of equality, access, and compassion. As Canada contends with ever-evolving claims on the right to die, the demand for euthanasia has begun to outstrip the capacity of clinicians to provide it.
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.... “Once you accept that people ought to have autonomy—once you accept that life is not sacred and something that can only be taken by God, a being I don’t believe in—then, if you’re in that work, some of us have to go forward and say, ‘We’ll do it.’ ”
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Suicide is painless. Especially when its medically induced. Shove some ketimine in there and wait for the breathing to stop.
Maybe these people, or at least a good percentage, should try living somewhere other than Canuckistan, maybe they wouldn’t be so unhappy.
And down the eliptical “slippery slope” they slide.....
IF you’re not a socialist/communist, then it’s your “time” to go...
It’s coming to em and fast.
Wouldn’t it be easier to move somewhere else?
Yes. If you’re unvaccinated, then your ‘time’ is up.
Apparently Nova Scotia just banned anyone from hiking/walking trails due to the dry conditions...they are just insane.
Soylent Green was prophesy.
Only if there is video of sweeping landscapes accompanied with classical music, à la Soylent Green.
Canada is doing this to make way for newcomers
“...Canada is doing this to make way for newcomers...”
We stopped at a WalMart in Fredricton, New Brunswick Canada not too long ago.
I thought we had been teleported to Mumbai, India. Very few whites and they were mostly of the gray-haired variety. No young white folks anywhere to be seen.
It’s not just Canada. The decadent nations of the West are suicidal, France and Germany, for example. They can find nothing in their culture worth preserving and are rapidly destroying themselves.
Catholic Priests may NOT participate in, and especially offer a holy sacrament for, suicide.
This article is either false, or there is a priest in Canada who must be severely reprimanded.
Let’s be fair here. Assisted suicide (voluntary or not) provides an immediate and lasting treatment for mild to moderate cases of depression.
“a lifestyle option”
Geesh. The perversion of language continues.
I would love to see the political breakdown of who chooses suicide
Suicide is painless.
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Have you tried it yourself? Or have you asked others who did?
If that was the one between Highway 2 & 8, my wife and I know that one.
I do not care who kills themselves. Just do not do it in public.
FYI “Suicide Is Painless” is the M*A*S*H* theme song.
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