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Canadians Without Life Threatening Diseases Are Being Encouraged to Consider Suicide | Opinion
MSN ^ | 02/12/2024 | Katherine Brodsky

Posted on 02/12/2024 5:47:57 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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To: Newtoidaho
I encourage all liberals to follow her lead.

Extended multigenerational Demonrat families using Obamacare are well aware of the "palliative" option. The way it works is when someone develops an expensive medical condition, they are offered terminally addictive pharmaceuticals to go back to their section-8 abode, and enjoy several last meals of steak and lobster, if not shoplifted, paid for with food stamps, their final stick it to the evil white man.

21 posted on 02/12/2024 7:49:09 PM PST by Reeses
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Soon it will be strictly age based and NOT optional.


22 posted on 02/13/2024 12:12:38 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: airplaneguy

” Canadian provinces (states) ‘

First time I’ve ever seen someone define provinces in terms of states. Weird. You think the rest of us have never heard of Canada or its jurisdictional borders?


23 posted on 02/13/2024 12:30:45 AM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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In case anyone was wondering many Canadians chose this option recently, it was 13,241 in 2022 (no data available for 2023 yet). The numbers have been increasing steadily since the program began in 2016. In 2017 (first full year) the number was 2,838. By provinces, it would appear Quebec and British Columbia have more applicants per capita than the national average, and Alberta looks considerably lower than you would expect at random. This may reflect different philosophies of doctors in these provinces, since it is libertarian doctors who were advocating for this before legislation was passed, the kind of awful people you meet once or twice in a lifetime and who say odd things like, “you (they) really should consider suicide,” when they hear of any dysfunction. It’s an offshoot of the old eugenics world view that was quite popular in certain circles and not necessarily leftist circles but including leftists.

I guess the Liberal Party of Canada heard about it around 2016 when Trudeau replaced Stephen harper, and said, well, anything to get old people to start dying younger, for a variety of reasons that benefit the government. Pensions not needing to be paid, votes not being wasted, etc.

Now, having said all that, I can report that (a) I am not a hermit who knows nobody and (b) I have never heard of anyone taking advantage of this program (despite being 74). So it’s not like every other person on the street is showing up at a clinic demanding to die.

13.2 thousand people would represent about one in three thousand people in Canada. I live in a town of a little more than four thousand people so I suppose one or two people here are preparing an assisted death. (I know, statistical averages don’t work like that and I already said BC was above average so possibly up to half a dozen people — that’s quite a large number really, and it concerns me, but as I don’t know anyone who is involved, and it is their decision (the legislation outlines various ways of ascertaining consent), what would happen if the legislation was withdrawn? I would guess about half these people would find a less medically assisted form of suicide. That doesn’t make it right.

It’s a bit creepy to know that doctors are participating in this; public opinion surveys claim a fairly high approval rating for the program but of course that could be fictitious, a lot of public opinion polling is not as random as claimed. It seems a logical inference (to me) that if doctors are willing to provide this “service” then that could tell you something about how vigorously they actually try to improve the health of seriously ill patients, if in the back of their minds is the thought “this person would be better off dead.”


24 posted on 02/13/2024 1:31:36 AM PST by Peter ODonnell (Prayers up for Jim Robinson and family ... an island of sanity in a sea of madness. )
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Good discussion—it does not surprise me at all that many doctors are in favor of murdering people these days.

The majority of doctors seek social status—and therefore will tend to believe or try to believe any ideology that can improve that social status.

One of those ideologies is “climate change” which ultimately requires the elites deciding to “get rid of” people who are undesirable in their view.

It is gradually morphing into Eugenics which dominated elite thinking during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

While some claim that Economics is the dismal science I would argue that History deserves that honor.


25 posted on 02/13/2024 1:41:14 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s EVIL.

Call it what it is.

Pain can be managed but the medical community and the government won’t allow it, because the hypocrites there will give free drugs to drug addicts and yet deny pain meds to people suffering because they are allegedly concerned they’ll become addicted.


26 posted on 02/13/2024 4:28:36 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

SO they are denying pain relief for those suffering and pushing them into killing themselves.

Population control or reducing the population 101.


27 posted on 02/13/2024 4:29:31 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: HighSierra5

HE’LL get all the help HE needs or wants. They won’t be pushing him to off himself unless they have someone even worse than him waiting in the wings.


28 posted on 02/13/2024 4:30:28 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: verum ago

The usual progression.


29 posted on 02/13/2024 4:32:54 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another form of depopulation without a pandemic, terrorist attack or enforcement


30 posted on 02/13/2024 6:38:22 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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