Posted on 02/17/2026 2:03:39 PM PST by DFG
A family has accused Canada's laws of 'killing the disabled and vulnerable' months after their son, who suffered from seasonal depression, died by assisted suicide.
Kiano Vafaeian, a 26-year-old blind man with Type 1 diabetes, died in December using Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, which allows patients with 'grievous and irremediable' medical conditions to request a lethal drug.
Eligibility was expanded in 2021 to include people with chronic illnesses, disabilities and, pending parliamentary review, potentially individuals with certain mental health conditions.
Vafaeian faced mental health struggles stemming from a car accident at 17, and according to his mother, his depression often flared during the winter months.
For years, the family had successfully prevented their son from using the program. Last year, however, Dr Ellen Wiebe, a MAID provider in British Columbia, approved Vafaeian's death - news the family only learned about days later.
Vafaeian's mother, Margaret Marsilla of Ontario, alleged that Wiebe was 'coaching' her son on how to qualify as a Track 2 patient - those whose natural deaths aren't deemed 'reasonably imminent,' according to Fox News Digital.
'We believe that she was coaching him on how to deteriorate his body and what she can possibly approve him for and what she can get away with approving him for,' Marsilla told the outlet.
Marsilla has since been battling fiercely to undo the Track 2 modification and to support Bill C-218, a legislative effort intended to restrict MAID for those whose only condition is a mental illness.
'We don't want to see any other family member suffer, or any country introduce a piece of legislation that kills their disabled or vulnerable without appropriate proper treatment plans that could save their lives,' Marsilla told Fox.
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“Vafaeian’s mother, Margaret Marsilla of Ontario, alleged that Wiebe was ‘coaching’ her son on how to qualify as a Track 2 patient - those whose natural deaths aren’t deemed ‘reasonably imminent,’ according to Fox News Digital.” Kinda gruesome, wanted her boy dead.
Who wouldn’t suffer from “SAD” in Canada?
Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program should be tested on Politicians before the public
“...Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program should be tested on Politicians before the public...”
^THIS^
Nationalized health care and legal euthanasia will lead to all kinds of interesting outcomes.
Canada. Getting rid of the useless eaters, 1 murder at a time.
Dr Ellen ‘Kevorkian’ Wiebe... This woman is obviously mentally ill herself and enjoying her job of killing people a little bit too much... Maybe it’s time for her to be ‘assisted’ in her own demise. Just a thought.
Tuesday is Soylent Green Day.
The NAZIs would feel at home in Canada. Oh, how low society has sunk.
Honestly, I can’t say that I would want to live like that just so those around me wouldn’t have to suffer losing me.
I remember when Europe began their Euthanasia programs years ago that elderly people feared to go the doctor as they feared the doctor might take it upon themselves to kill them if they decide the patient has “no quality of life” left.
That “doctor” is a monster, and I don’t throw that word around. I wouldn’t want her to clean my toilet, much less deliver my baby.
Medically Assisting Insidious Depopulation. HORRIFIC crimes against humans.
Liberals are always about killing people. They have no boundaries and a morbid interest in sex and violence.
Remember, it is down the road not across the street.
SAD is caused by reduced light exposure in the Winter months. There are lights sold to provide the preferred exposure to the correct intensity and wavelengths to defeat SAD. Who wouldn't suffer from "SAD" in Canada? A blind person would not be aware of light levels. The subject of the thread was blind, but perhaps not to the extent that light levels didn't matter. Still, it's just beyond criminal to groom a person into accepting MAiD as a solution to a non-terminal problem.
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