Posted on 08/11/2022 6:19:28 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
Alan Nichols had a history of depression and other medical issues, but none was life-threatening. When the 61-year-old Canadian was hospitalized in June 2019 over fears he might be suicidal, he asked his brother to “bust him out” as soon as possible.
Within a month, Nichols submitted a request to be euthanized and he was killed, despite concerns raised by his family and a nurse practitioner.
His application for euthanasia listed only one health condition as the reason for his request to die: hearing loss.
Nichols’ family reported the case to police and health authorities, arguing that he lacked the capacity to understand the process and was not suffering unbearably — among the requirements for euthanasia. They say he was not taking needed medication, wasn't using the cochlear implant that helped him hear, and that hospital staffers improperly helped him request euthanasia.
“Alan was basically put to death,” his brother Gary Nichols said.
Disability experts say the story is not unique in Canada, which arguably has the world’s most permissive euthanasia rules — allowing people with serious disabilities to choose to be killed in the absence of any other medical issue.
Many Canadians support euthanasia and the advocacy group Dying With Dignity says the procedure is “driven by compassion, an end to suffering and discrimination and desire for personal autonomy.” But human rights advocates say the country's regulations lack necessary safeguards, devalue the lives of disabled people and are prompting doctors and health workers to suggest the procedure to those who might not otherwise consider it.
Equally troubling, advocates say, are instances in which people have sought to be killed because they weren’t getting adequate government support to live.
Canada is set to expand euthanasia access next year, but these advocates say the system warrants further scrutiny now.
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This is their socialized healthcare cost reduction plan.
Truedope and his minions need to euthanize themselves, “for the children”.
Government controlled healthcare plus permissive euthanasia. What could possibly go wrong particularly when having the elderly die at an earlier age reduces government costs?
Could euthanasia make healthcare workers more callous regarding the worth of individual human beings?
Trudeau gets his orders from Nazi Cult Leader Klaus Schwab
Why does Canada care about Asian youth?
Oh, that’s very different, nevermind.
The left can do anything they want and the press and public will cheer and say how proud they are.
“Experts”
Lots of married couples go to Canada these days for vacation and returning alone...
Probably not as much as some of the euthanized
Yes, I am fully against the people who commit abortion murder and who promote it (Dems).
But the other serious danger is the evil they show in wanting to kill older people and sick people.
Scandinavian doctors have been doing “unwilling patient” euthanasia increasingly. Depression can be enough to declare the patient should be made to die, not serious matters such as no breathing or blood circulation without machines doing them. And the doctor can give medications or suddenly withhold ones that bring on the depression purposely.
Some are when family wants to save money of last illness costs. Others are against the family’s desire. The healthcare system costs are the top reason.
One description I heard on Father Spitzer’s Universe
(he is a conservative priest quoted the elderly woman screaming “No, no, don’t do it. Help. I want to live. Don’t kill me.” Doctor and nurses held her as she was killed in the hospital.
This is pure evil and common in Communist countries——as ours will shortly become unless we fight it.
Culturally, the country is defined by three characteristics that make most of its residents totally comfortable with the idea of having themselves euthanized. By their nature, Canadians tend to be:
1. docile
2. compliant
3. happy to have the government manage their lives
I agree, but I'd add that, right here in the USA, even in states where euthanasia is (supposedly) illegal, even a mildly ill patient of advanced age will be euthanized if the family agrees to it. I have personal knowledge of one such situation happening not long ago.
We need laws making this practice illegal, but no one is really talking about it.
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