The killing fields of Canada keep getting predictably tragic. From “The State” convincing people they are a burden to relieve itself of the circumstances in which it likely put them, to people burdened to the point of asking others to be killed, the Great White North is looking decidedly red.
I’ve covered the descent of assisted suicide from well-meaning to diabolical. It’s the perfect out. We see that you are miserable, and whether the Government responsible or not, you could end the feeling of being a burden by agreeing to kill yourself or letting us help you.
Balance sheet line item cleared. Next!
There are plenty of folks in the bureaucracy and the public health industrial complex who are diligent about wishes and consent. Plenty of politicians still believe the expanding reach of Medically Assisted dying (MAiD) is a kindness. The issue, as with all things the government forcibly delves into, is that it attracts or encourages the worst aspects of human nature. People are being led to their death like farm animals to slaughter, and the entire culture is being encouraged to see MAiD as an escape hatch. The government doesn’t have to burden taxpayers with costs, and families don’t have to squabble over managing care for the sick or the elderly.
In today’s example, we have an elderly couple in their eighties, one chronically ill and in need of constant care, and her elderly spouse, suffering from caregiver burnout. The patient requests MAiD, and the assessment process begins. It gets complicated, but at some point, she changes her mind, and that isn’t properly documented. Two more “assessors” and one continually burdened out caregiver spouse later, and the patient is euthanized.
Dr. Ramona Coelho, a physician on the [Ontario MAID Death Review] committee who is critical of MAID and assisted suicide in general, concluded that “the focus should have been on ensuring adequate palliative care and support for Mrs. B and her spouse,” instead of, well, murdering her for the sake of everyone else’s convenience.
“Hospice and palliative care teams should have been urgently re-engaged, given the severity of the situation,” she continued. “Additionally, the MAID provider expedited the process despite the first assessor’s and Mrs. B’s concerns without fully considering the impact of her spouse’s burnout.”
Rather than assist them in living and finding paths to improve the quality of life for both spouses, everyone seems to have agreed that it was too much bother.
The board also expressed concern about “external coercion,” because there was little to no documentation that Mrs. B had changed her mind, and, again, the initial assessor was not allowed access to the woman to ask.
The culture and availability of assisted suicide, along with a medical culture that increasingly leans on it to “solve problems,” exacerbated by a political class eager to provide more reasons to do it, ended a woman’s life before she was done living it.
That’s quite the slippery slope, isn’t it?
