If you wanted to know what I thought about assisted Suicide, medically assisted dying (MAiD), or any aspect of government-managed consent to death, it’s easy. I don’t care how compassionate you think you are; it is not the sort of authority you want them to have.
Curious contradictions abound as well. Most of the people who are in favor of the government setting the terms for your self-discorporation oppose capital punishment. It is cruel and unusual, they say. What if someone makes a mistake, a circumstance that hardly ever raises its head when progressives talk about all the things government should be doing? And it’s a lot of things. Even lethal injection gets them spun up a bit, but not if some doc has the okay to hand you a lethal cocktail of whatever it takes to shuffle off your mortal coil.
Yeah, I use that Hamlet line a lot.
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause
Contradictions.
Here’s another one, maybe. What if there’s no guarantee your compassion will result in a painless death? What if it’s uncomfortable or downright painful?
That’s right, I wouldn’t have brought it up if it wasn’t, at least for some.
“The experience of ‘assisted dying’ may not be the ‘safe and comfortable’ process promoted by campaigners,” noted a British Medical Bulletin article, “and patients must be properly informed of the realities of hastening death and the risk of distressing complications.”
Assisted suicide laws and regulations don’t even guarantee that you’ll die. All they do is attempt to regulate the process and permissions, including allowing “doctors” to “prescribe whatever drugs they deem fit for lethal purposes without fear of prosecution.”
Things have gotten totally out of hand in Canada, where some medical professionals clearly like helping people die a little bit too much. Where Ministers keep finding excuses to broaden who can be counseled to die. And that’s the slippery slope. Canada is counseling people to make their problems go away. Expensive medical procedures, long-term care, chronic pain, depression, mental health, even autism and children have been proposed issues better handled by death than treatment.
It’s a hop, skip, and jump to identifying political opponents and other “troublemakers” with things on the expanded list of reasons you can be convinced of to kill yourself. At least that’s what it will say in the official press release.
Best not to even open that door, and here’s another reason.
Whether patients are struggling with adverse effects is a bit of a mystery. No data was collected for half of the patients in Oregon in 2025 and California in 2024.
Among the nearly 1,000 cases in Oregon with known outcomes over the past two decades, five patients experienced seizures, while 66 had difficulty ingesting the medication or vomited it. From 2001 to 2025, nine people regained consciousness after ingestion. California’s 2024 report recorded 27 complications.
With such spotty and incomplete record-keeping, which is probably a feature and not a bug, there is no way to determine exactly how many people suffer physically or emotionally as a result of complications, some of whom likely didn’t even actually die.
Talk about a great time for a come-to-Jesus moment.
You try to die, and the universe doesn’t let you?
Or it does, but it’s this ugly, awful, unpleasant situation that can take days while your loved ones wait.
Where exactly is the compassion in that? Well, there isn’t any. It’s the opposite. Not for all, but certainly for some and a whole lot more than one.
Better to keep the government out of it altogether, for this and all the other more sinister slippery slope reasons.
