Having an extensive archive of content about government euthanasia programs disguised as compassion has proven useful. First, the documented warnings make me look prescient when the predictions become fact. Second, people are kind enough to send me material on the subject because of all the previous work.
This isn’t about you deciding it’s all too much; it is about the government using systems and leverage to convince you of it, and in some cases refusing to allow you or anyone else to change their mind.
Compassion is the camel’s nose, and the camel’s name is state-sponsored euthanasia, and you don’t need to plumb the secrets of Marxist states for evidence. Mediocre Socialists’ “democracies” are openly advertising the latest pin drop on what we’ve long called the slippery slope.
Evidence abounds just north of the 49th parallel and, in some cases, below it. Canada has, as predicted, turned Medically Assisted Dying into a budgetary austerity program. If whatever you have, or whatever they say you have, is more expensive to treat- and that is a long list- you might be classified as an eater. Someone who has no inputs and all outputs. A drain, and instead of spending taxpayer dollars to treat you, they will spend them on therapists and experts and closers whose job is to convince you that it was your idea.
You wanted to die.
It is about compassion for the state, your loved ones, and total strangers who have to pay the freight, though they don’t mention that last bit. You are red on their ledger, and easing you into the sunset becomes job one. Age, illness, infirmity, mental health, economic status, and now post-military service.
But rather than receiving the help he was seeking, Baltzer claims the caseworker instructed him to end the call and provided him with a different number to contact.
During that subsequent conversation, he says the caseworker reviewed his file and suggested he consider another option.
‘He looked at my file and said, “I can see the therapy you’ve done. It doesn’t seem like much has helped. I’d like you to keep an open mind and think about this.”‘
‘”Have you ever given any thought to medical assistance in dying?”‘
David Baltzer is physically healthy but has a wicked case of PTS after his time in Afghanistan. But if you call Veterans Affairs, don’t be surprised if your case worker suggests you embrace your suicidal thoughts. State-sanctioned discorporation.
‘You’ve got physically healthy young men asking for help, and the help offered is death,’ she said [Catherine Christensen is a lawyer representing vets who can’t get care or have lost benefits].
For Baltzer, the call came at a particularly vulnerable point. He was already struggling to adjust to civilian life, had been experiencing difficulties in his relationship and had been assigned several different therapists through Veterans Affairs.
Speaking to the Daily Mail from his home in Manitoba, he said: ‘To me, [the suggestion of MAID] was a confirmation of, ‘Oh, my life is worthless’.’
Canada is not just on a slippery slope to state-sanctioned euthanasia; it has been in the socialist death spiral for some time. It disarmed its citizens, took away any right to self-defense, and is in the process of confiscating firearms; owners were forced to register. If you are afraid of the people because you’ve run their nation into a ditch that just keeps getting deeper, getting rid of trained killers isn’t a bad idea.
A physically healthy young man in his 30s has years of life and value potential. One who was trained to be disciplined and respectful to authority, perhaps doubly so. PTS isn’t a death sentence, but having it in Canada is.
Don’t buy the compassion argument. Governments are incapable of it, and as we’ve seen in Canada, the public health machinery answers to pencil-pushing bureaucrats who prioritize saving money over lives.
Thanks to MAiD, the system has institutionalized suicide as a way to solve problems the government created, which is exactly what I’ve been saying about it from the beginning.
If your state doesn’t have it, don’t go there, but here in New Hampshire I’d expect the new Dem Majority to push for it. Governor Ayotte needs to veto it, and Republicans in the State Senate need to stick together on principle to protect that veto. Not just because of the slippery slope, either. Vermont has death tourism. The few who might consider it can go there, and we won’t have to worry about our “public Health system” getting hijacked by the Left’s murder cult.
