Posted on 05/12/2022 7:08:20 AM PDT by DoodleBob
After pleading unsuccessfully for affordable housing to help ease her chronic health condition, a Canadian woman ended her life in February under the country’s assisted-suicide laws. Another woman, suffering from the same condition and also living on disability payments, has nearly reached final approval to end her life.
The two high-profile cases have prompted disbelief and outrage, and shone a light on Canada’s right-to-die laws, which critics argue are being misused to punish the poor and infirm. In late April, the Spectator ran a story with the provocative headline: Why is Canada euthanising the poor?
But medical and legal experts caution that oversimplified media coverage of the cases fail to capture the realities of the system – and warn that sensationalist coverage of a handful of “extreme” cases ignores a larger crisis in the country’s healthcare systems.
In February, a 51-year-old Ontario woman known as Sophia was granted physician-assisted death after her chronic condition became intolerable and her meagre disability stipend left her little to survive on, according to CTV News.
“The government sees me as expendable trash, a complainer, useless and a pain in the ass,” she said in a video obtained by the network. For two years, she and friends had pleaded without success for better living conditions, she said.
Now a second case has emerged with several parallels: another woman, known as Denise, has also applied to end her life after being unable to find suitable housing and struggling to survive on disability payments.
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For activists, the cases have come to represent Canada’s failure to care for its most vulnerable citizens – and raised questions about how assisted-suicide laws are applied...experts caution the cases are also being used by groups opposed to medical assistance in death...in an attempt to scaleback legislation...
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Time is on the side of the few assisted suicide advocates out there. Baby boomers are a selfish lot and look for the easy painless way out. When there’s nobody out there to wipe your ass and the powers that be want you out of the way. No room for God to decide when you go. It will be a slippery slope.
Government does NOT belong in healthcare of its citizens and it is utterly unconstitutional for the U.S. government to be meddling in healthcare.
“Healthcare crises” among may other things are caused by one thing: GOVERNMENT!!!
Trudeau is big on assisted suicide and euthenasia.
To me, this is so evil and wrong it’s hard to imagine anything worse than a Democratically elected Government basically engaging in Genocide.
This only works in one direction, initially only the most severe cases qualify for Doctor Assisted Suicide, gradually over time the bar will get lowered and eventually you end up with someone who is overweight or depressed committing suicide.
Him First!
Yea, this signals the future for the US; a death factory as boomers embrace assisted suicide. But the will be followed by the succeeding generations brainwashed by the Democrat Uniparty to off themselves to save the planet.
I seriously doubt anyone will mourn their passing.
You mean, like, how “safe, legal and rare” became “we can kill the baby even after it’s been delivered”?
For sure.
That’s why we LEFT KANADA..My GF is/was a canadian nurse.
They way the system works is YOU PAY a premium, depending on the province around $100/month.
You get “supposedlY’ full treatment. If you dont pay the monthly, they dont give a damn about you. Cant even sue these assholes because they’re the gubmint.
and the worse part? the doctors are damn LAZY, and if you are expensive to fiz, they leave you to die. Example: let’s say you have a small tumor, these insane doctors wont act on it until it gets bigger THEN they do the operation which is idiotic.
The system was built to enrich the provincial government socialist doctors financially, and not the patients who need help. .
Exactly, it’s the same thing at the opposite end of the age spectrum, when they get to be a pain in the ass, get rid of them, whether it’s a fetus or an elderly person or someone with a severe disability.
Once people get comfortable with assisted suicide, it will be expanded into any conceivable disability or age group.
Suicide is normally a very individual issue and mostly relates to mental illness. But if there is an uptrend, its because people no longer know how to deal with adversity in their lives. “Poverty” is relative. The poor today in countries like Canada are much, much better off than the middle class of a couple decades ago. But people expect someone else to take care of them and can’t cope with problems on their own. So one answer may be suicide (or a fake suicide to try to get people to help them).
Canada is a Nazi Dictatorship.
Fair enough. But considering the bloat and largess of government, and the “caring collectivism” they show in Canada vs America, the fact that one person chose Lights Out because there wasn’t any part of Leviathan that could pay for an air filter, is quite telling.
Off-topic, but I can’t imagine you in Canada FRiend!
Useless eaters, or to use the Nazi term “life unworthy of life”. In a Godless, materialistic, utilitarian, nihilistic society, this is the direction taken: get rid of these “burdens on society”. Sickening.
Trudeau is a disgrace. The leaders in the west are tyrant scum.
Call me crazy, but once you get comfortable with ending the life of the so called “Useless Eaters”, why not expand it to political rivals, they are already spreading disinformation and lies stopping the agenda of the establishment, WEF, United Nations, etc....
Trudeau is interested in only one thing; himself.
i lost TV contracts in Vancouver for a “certain” studio the last 3 years. It worked because the network likes canadian passports for no hassle status entering and going.
The vaxx garbage ruined it. Vancouver is the only city where the local cops can arrest you for not wearing a mask. Instead of going to the donut shop, they do small stupid crap like this..
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