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.’ ”
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Maybe a good way to solve medical overcrowding?!
Instead to spend big $$$ on expensive treatment, just put them to sleep.
The good news is that godless liberals are probably the most likely to go this route. Over time, this should put Canadian conservatives back in power. Of course, that means purging the voter rolls which the liberals will refuse to do.
However, I can’t believe that there are more deaths from MAID than from diabetes. Consider what Canadians eat and how little they exercise.
In Canada??? You think the priests remaining there give a flip about Catholic morality???
“..If that was the one between Highway 2 & 8, my wife and I know that one...”
That’d be the one!
We went there after having lunch at Montana’s BBQ.
I didn’t so many New Yorkers moved to Canada?.
If the city votes wrong they can move back.
Suicide is Painless will be the new Canadian National Anthem. Who can blame them with such an ineffectual government and leadership who apparently embrace national and cultural suicide.
Suicide is Painless will be the new Canadian National Anthem. Who can blame them with such an ineffectual government and leadership who apparently embrace national and cultural suicide.
Suicide is Painless will be the new Canadian National Anthem
I thought it was “Two Beavers Are Better Than One”
Must be a big city liberal thing, I don’t know anybody who used the option or is considering it today. I got a laugh out of the Canadian exercise comment, you see far fewer fat people here than in the good old US of A. Where I live, everyone is on a fitness tear, it looks like Olympic Village around here. But that’s just in the real world not in the pretend Canada of FR,
So passee
I can remember bans on going into the woods in Maine years ago because of fire risk. I don’t understand the big drama around this.
Meh. I can take or leave it if I please.
Not willing to run one’s race to the end, eh?
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