Posted on 11/17/2022 6:36:23 PM PST by algore
A Canadian man facing eviction applied to be legally euthanized and die rather than face homelessness.
Amir Farsoud, 54, applied for the drastic measure after the rooming house where he lives was put on the market.
Farsoud lives with debilitating, untreatable back pain, which allowed him to qualify for Canada's controversial medical assistance in dying program, known as MAID.
But it wasn't his pain that drove Farsoud's decision, but rather his prospects of homelessness after Canada's social services failed to provide him support.
Farsoud received one of the two doctor signatures required to be accepted by the MAID program, and expected to be euthanized this month.
But his story made headlines in Canada, and a GoFundMe page set up in his name by a stranger wound up raising him over $60,000 - enough to get him new housing and to change his mind about ending his life.
'I don't want to die but I don't want to be homeless more than I don't want to die,' he told City News. 'It's not my first choice.'
Farsoud's survives off of social services, but the stipend is so low he is left with just $7 daily for food, and next to nothing to pay for rent.
When his rooming house, home which he shares with two others, went up for sale, he decided to apply for MAID.
With his chronic back pain - which leaves him debilitated - Farsoud said he would likely die on the streets anyways, so he figured he may as well end his life the easy way.
'I know, in my present health condition, I wouldn't survive it anyway. It wouldn't be at all dignified waiting, so if that becomes my two options, it's pretty much a no-brainer,' he said
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Proof-of-concept.
Someday soon we will all be made the same offer.
The end result will be the same no matter the choice.
And down the slope we go.
Possibly, but only after all the money is gone.
This is very evil.
Yes. I see this eventually becoming widespread.
You will own nothing. And you will be happy.
But plenty of people will not be happy. At all.
And they will have this easy way out.
Canada is in the death spiral….. literally
Despite this present place, I love living.
The longer I live however, the less I care about living in this world. Everything gets worse in many aspects. Won’t miss it. Who wants to live hundreds of years, forever battling socialists and paying taxes and being useful scapegoats for enemies...
Now when God comes back and gets things back on track, different story.
Hopefully some good soul will help him and get him out of this. Prayers up! Good Lord have mercy.
If you own nothing then someone else owns YOU.
“Who wants to live hundreds of years, forever battling socialists and paying taxes and being useful scapegoats for enemies...”
There are legends about this happening a long time ago when people lived for hundreds of years.
I read somewhere that they found some stone jars with vellum inside and when translated they said:
There were all the disgruntled people holding Giant Flood 2400bc banners cause back then there were no term limits and rampant corruption.
FedGov just figured out how to fix the Social Security shortfall.
Socialized medicine! Yeah, we’re not interested in treating your illness. But if you like, we’ll kill you.
Oh Amir!
And Canada is thought to be such a nice country.
Offered, or mandated?
I agree. Tons of people will not be happy, with that system. I know I won’t.
I don’t have a problem with someone who is honestly disabled being given enough money to survive on.
Has the Canadian gov’t decided that he’s a moocher or something?
I say keep him doped up on Fentanyl.
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