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Elderly Woman Takes Her Own Life to Avoid Anguish and Loneliness of Another Lockdown
lifenews ^ | 11/27/2020 | Wesley Smith

Posted on 11/28/2020 9:28:43 AM PST by xomething

An elderly Canadian woman was killed by her doctor because she would rather be dead than go through another COVID lockdown. When it looked like she would have to be confined to her room for two weeks, she asked for — and received — the lethal jab due to declining mental health and vitality. From the CTV story:

Nancy Russell, described by her family as exceptionally social and spry, was one such person. Her family says she chose a medically-assisted death (MAID) after she declined so sharply during lockdown that she didn’t want to go through more isolation this winter…

This time, doctors approved her. Russell would not have to go through another lockdown in her care home. “She just truly did not believe that she wanted to try another one of those two-week confinements into her room,” her daughter said.

But note, for her death, she could be surrounded by friends and family!

When 90-year-old Nancy Russell died last month, she was surrounded by friends and family. They clustered around her bed, singing a song she had chosen to send her off, as a doctor helped her through a medically-assisted death.

So companionship to be made dead but not to remain alive. And her family thinks this was a fine option, demonstrating how the social mindset becomes twisted by euthanasia consciousness.

But, we are told, killing to end suffering is oh soooo compassionate! And lockdowns are measures of good public health! Bah!

Those with eyes to see, let them see.

LifeNews.com Note: Wesley J. Smith, J.D., is a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture and a bioethics attorney who blogs at Human Exeptionalism.


TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; coronavirus; euthanasia; fauci; lockdown; loser; prolife
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To: pnut22

Wake up. It’s not only Dumb Dumbs that are pulling this crap. Maryland languishes under Lockdown Larry Hogan and Ohio languishes under Mike Karen DeWine.


21 posted on 11/28/2020 10:03:09 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: xomething

No radio or TV in the room for diversion?


22 posted on 11/28/2020 10:05:10 AM PST by Exit148
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To: ncfool

“Zeke Emanuel would be proud of the ladies choice. He wants all people over 75 to die this way”.

Emanuel is a Demon. He’s one of many who are too numerous to count.


23 posted on 11/28/2020 10:07:41 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: DesertRhino

You are correct, we need a return to the old ways of looking after our own families.


24 posted on 11/28/2020 10:09:23 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: xomething

“Nancy Russell, described by her family as exceptionally social and spry,” “Her family says she chose a medically-assisted death (MAID) after she declined so sharply during lockdown that she didn’t want to go through more isolation this winter… “

I’m wondering why her family didn’t get her out of there last time or want to this time?


25 posted on 11/28/2020 10:12:42 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: xomething
she didn't kill herself....she had someone else do it...

if you want to commit suicide, then don't expect others to do it....just do it yourself....

26 posted on 11/28/2020 10:13:05 AM PST by cherry
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To: xomething

I’ve been saying this for awhile - we need to have an ICD-10 diagnosis to add for Covid LOCKDOWN. They have one for everything else.


27 posted on 11/28/2020 10:14:19 AM PST by I still care (The left's goal never was tolerance. It always was fascism.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I take COVID seriously, but not enough to put people through this fresh hell. It should have been up to her whether to have visitors or not.

A very reasonable stance. Speed the spread of that.

28 posted on 11/28/2020 10:16:16 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: DesertRhino

// The family ever think maybe they should have made a place for her at
// their own house? You know, like humans have done for thousands of years

You forget that for thousands of years Man was Master of the Household. His Word and his Will mattered. It is no longer so, at least in most of what is called the West. And even “Master” now is a dirty word.

The Patriarchial Family is dead. Dead along with it are multigenerational living arrangements and many other “taken for granted” things that the Patriarchial Way of Life enabled and nurtured for millennia.

Try to bring multigenerational living arrangements back now, it will terribly strain and destroy many so called modern marriages, where Karens can simply walk away at will, aided and abetted by the family court, while sucking the buck (cuck, cuck!) dry.

I speak from experience here.

Bring back the Patriarch and we can talk. For that to happen, unfortunately, another kind of Great Reset needs to happen (not what the elites have in mind). It is very unlikely barring any global “slate wiper” type of event (COVID ain’t it).


29 posted on 11/28/2020 10:33:16 AM PST by JadeEmperor ( )
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To: Exit148

Maximum security prison cells can have a TV too. Still no substitute for human contact.


30 posted on 11/28/2020 10:40:18 AM PST by JadeEmperor ( )
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To: xomething

“You can’t see your family and friends ever again unless you let us kill you.”

Modernity...


31 posted on 11/28/2020 10:56:01 AM PST by Bogey78O (So far so good.)
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To: xomething

I wonder what the Windsors have to say about all this?


32 posted on 11/28/2020 11:02:08 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Lurker

No it wasn’t. We can’t know the despair these poor people are going through. And don’t tell me about their duty to live or bring religion into it.


33 posted on 11/28/2020 11:04:48 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
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To: DesertRhino

I agree with that logic, but we don’t know what the real circumstances were on doing that. Taking care of a older citizen also might be more than most can handle, easy to criticize.

I take care of a 94 year old Aunt so I know what I talking about.


34 posted on 11/28/2020 11:07:41 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Unless she had a painful terminal illness this was an execution

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35 posted on 11/28/2020 11:08:12 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Alberta's Child

Your cruel and disgusting.


36 posted on 11/28/2020 11:08:29 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
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To: Lurker

Easy to say, for this woman and others no social contact is a hell unto itself.


37 posted on 11/28/2020 11:11:19 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
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To: xomething
I have a 25 year career at one of Harvard Medical School's largest teaching teaching hospitals.During that time I developed a strong understanding of how academic medicine works. With that knowledge I can guarantee that neither JAMA,the NEJM,the Lancet nor any of medicine's highly respected journals will publish a piece detailing the collateral damage these lockdowns have caused.

Apart from bringing the economy to its knees there are delayed diagnoses (cancer,heart disease,etc),alcohol abuse,drug abuse,domestic violence,child abuse,suicides,bankruptcies...

38 posted on 11/28/2020 11:15:24 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (BLM Stands For "Bidens Loot Millions"!)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
In the original report I read on this incident, it was made clear that the old woman had already signed an “assisted suicide” agreement with the assisted living facility. She had every intention of having someone kill her in her advanced age at some time in her future.

Everyone seems to be accepting the family’s claims about why she accelerated her timeline and asked to have this done NOW instead of at some indeterminate time in the future.

I’m going to stick with my story that she was just a loser who was pampered through life by a socialist system that made her incapable of facing even a minimal type of hardship.

39 posted on 11/28/2020 11:20:23 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: xomething
she chose a medically-assisted death (MAID)

Shouldn't that be "MAD"?

40 posted on 11/28/2020 12:49:48 PM PST by Jess Kitting
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