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Woman Kills Herself in Assisted Suicide in Church Sanctuary, Church Holds Ceremony to Celebrate [Canada]
Life News ^ | 4/14/22 | Right to Life UK

Posted on 04/15/2022 7:06:11 PM PDT by marshmallow

A Canadian church has hosted an assisted suicide ceremony for one of its members..

The Churchill Park United Church of Winnipeg held what it described as a “Crossing Over Ceremony” in which an 86 year old, Betty Sanguin, ended her life through an assisted suicide in the church sanctuary.

Minister of Churchill Park, Rev. Dawn Rolke, said that it “seemed appropriate” to hold the ceremony in the sanctuary, as churches are often “host and home to all the raggedness of our lives and to some of our significant life rituals: baptism, marriage, ordination, funeral or memorial services”.

“For us, it was perfectly natural to hold this service for Betty in our sanctuary because death is a natural part of life and Betty had lived a good part of her adulthood in this faith community”.

According to the Christian Post, the typical sanctuary seating was removed and replaced by comfortable chairs, tables, flowers and a recliner, which Sanguin occupied during the ceremony as people came to visit her.

The lethal cocktail of drugs was administered at 1p.m. and Sanguin, who had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease, was dead within the hour.

“The children and some grandchildren went back into the sanctuary to be with Betty”, recalled Rolke. “And people began to quietly come and go from Betty’s side as the medicine took effect. It was like a wake”.

Betty’s body was removed at 4p.m. by staff from a funeral home.

(Excerpt) Read more at lifenews.com ...


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1 posted on 04/15/2022 7:06:11 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Canadians are completely lost morally.


2 posted on 04/15/2022 7:07:43 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: Fai Mao

Canada is a dead country.


3 posted on 04/15/2022 7:08:40 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: Fai Mao

Americans are lost morally.

See how that works?

Can’t lump them all together.


4 posted on 04/15/2022 7:08:43 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: marshmallow

https://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/catalog/catalog.html


5 posted on 04/15/2022 7:09:30 PM PDT by algore
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To: marshmallow

This thread needs a Jesus Facepalm image


6 posted on 04/15/2022 7:12:43 PM PDT by DocRock
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To: marshmallow

Blasphemy, nothing less than that.


7 posted on 04/15/2022 7:14:50 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Ask a liberal if they have a soul or do they just collect them from lives they destroy. )
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To: Fai Mao
pathetic people.....

people can die anytime they want by not taking food/drink/meds....

but apparently its more fun to draw the whole community into watch you kill yourself....

8 posted on 04/15/2022 7:14:59 PM PDT by cherry (;)
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To: marshmallow
Minister of Churchill Park, Rev. Dawn Rolke ...

Ah ... I see the problem ...

9 posted on 04/15/2022 7:20:11 PM PDT by dartuser
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To: DocRock

Why?

Yes it can be confusing,

Suffer the little children, Suffer the old folks, or maybe

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.


10 posted on 04/15/2022 7:22:24 PM PDT by algore
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To: marshmallow

That is SICK!


11 posted on 04/15/2022 7:22:32 PM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10

Many “imposter” type so-called “churches” out there nowadays. Oh, yes, we’re Christian, we believe in God — next thing you know the High Priestess is a lesbian and it continues to progress to crap of this nature.


12 posted on 04/15/2022 7:28:22 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: dartuser
Ah ... I see the problem ...

While I think that is a problem, didn’t they get Jack the dripper for doing this? Canada needs to do the same.

13 posted on 04/15/2022 7:34:13 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of a USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: marshmallow

Well, isn’t that special!


14 posted on 04/15/2022 7:36:06 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: marshmallow

How ironic that the now dead patient Betty Sanquin
has a last name that means “Sweet, Optimistic and Cheerful.”
This from the word Sanguine.


15 posted on 04/15/2022 7:39:08 PM PDT by lee martell (u)
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To: marshmallow

An hour??


16 posted on 04/15/2022 7:58:52 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: marshmallow

Yeah, that’s not how I understood it works.


17 posted on 04/15/2022 8:08:14 PM PDT by Delta 21 (It started as a virus, and mutated into an IQ test.)
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To: Bulwyf

Most Americans are lost morally.

Yep, it works.


18 posted on 04/15/2022 8:22:14 PM PDT by Fai Mao
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To: marshmallow
Well, that was sick.

No, I can not claim that the headline did not warn me.

19 posted on 04/15/2022 8:35:28 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: marshmallow

God can no longer be found in this church.

But Satan can.


20 posted on 04/15/2022 8:46:52 PM PDT by moovova
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