The government in Canada has both embraced and promoted medically assisted dying. Assisted suicide. It started with the chronically ill, but soon, almost anyone could ask the government to please kill them, even those who thought they wanted to live.
Government-approved euthanasia is not new and does not always begin as a call for compassion, but it always develops mission creep. In our so-called modern age, Nation-states or just states stand teary-eyed, choking on their empathy, begging us to give them the authority to end life. It is a kindness. A gift. To stop their suffering. But much the way a hammer sees every problem as a nail, so do the regulators and legislators who empower your government with this hand of death.
The tale begins with word salads of concern for the dignity of the chronically ill—those few who cannot separate daily living from pain, inevitably leading to the government ending life to escape its failures or to solve problems it created. Hide them, even. Every possible encumbrance upon the state is increasingly solved by “allowing” some class of “burden” to end its life.
The old, the poor, the homeless, the depressed, Veterans with PTS, anyone who is a strain on the socialized health system or the welfare budget, and eventually, inevitably, those who speak out against the government.
Housing crisis – look, something just opened up. Not enough food because you won’t let farmers grow it, or perhaps you think there are too many people on your planet?
Another lockdown will have them lining up for a mental illness date with Dr. Death.
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Oh, Steve, that’ll never happen. Except it has or will. Mental health issues are defined by state social workers and therapists, most of whom were trained by partisan Marxist progressives who are all eugenicists and social engineers with the power not just to recommend assisted suicide but to counsel their patients to consider it.
Encouraged by those above their pay grade, they become end-of-life counselors of opportunity. I know you think you want to live, but this is what’s best.
And if you think that sort of handling is crazy talk, NH banned its therapists from counseling the gender confused toward their birth sex, even if that’s what the patient wants. It would be a crime.
States like Oregon have made assisted suicide (MAiD) available to everyone. Hawaii has shortened the waiting period to a few days (you would wait three times as long to get a handgun). Beginning in the Spring of 2024, drug addicts in Canada will have their own box car to carry them to the Medically assisted dying camps. And why not? Keeping the drugs out is expensive. Policing them once we’ve let them in is expensive. Recovery programs that may not work are expensive. If there’s a risk of a drug overdose anyway, and they don’t recall like people anyway, let the state overdose you in peace. Many problems solved.
Slippery Slope.
Dr David Martell, physician lead for Addictions Medicine at Nova Scotia Health, who is presenting the framework at the conference, told VICE News: ‘I don’t think it’s fair, and the government doesn’t think it’s fair, to exclude people from eligibility because their medical disorder or their suffering is related to a mental illness.
‘As a subset of that, it’s not fair to exclude people from eligibility purely because their mental disorder might either partly or in full be a substance use disorder. It has to do with treating people equally.’
It has to do with killing anyone you can convince needs to die. Anyone?
Not that long ago, after Trump was elected in 2016, the soothsayers in the Donkey Party saw signs in the bilgewater wells of their ruined cities. Biblical plagues (minus the Bible), from economic crises to famine to nuclear war. They were, of course, projecting. Back in power, Democrat fears become real for their political opponents, complete with collateral damage Nancy Pelosi promised, always with the specter of a mental illness diagnosis lurking in the wings.
They always said you had to be crazy to support that guy or that thing or to think that way. COVID etched that perception in granite. They will do whatever they can get away with and a few things they likely can’t if it secures their political power.
A government that thinks there are too many of us, that we are some sort of burden, and encourages medically assisted suicide will always make its citizens suicidal and then pretend it is a kindness to kill them.
That is not speculation or conspiracy theory; it is a fact. Over the past several years, nation-states have gone to great lengths to ensure mental health distress, chronic drug abuse, and illness. At the same time, the more progressive players have either instituted medically assisted suicide or made it easier for you to “qualify.”
Depending on how far gone, the State will declare its political opponents (agitators who brought them to power and agitators who oppose their power) mentally unfit, make them disappear in jails or in mental institutions where they will either kill themselves (suicide), or ask to die (assisted suicide).
Who among us refuses to believe that a government that would lock up and isolate its citizens as political prisoners without due process rights might also brainwash them into accepting medically assisted dying, were it an option? How about in a society where the same government punishes opposing political speech?
Assisted suicide supporters mean well, but in the end, just like welfare, it will cause more harm to good people than do good to people in need.
Freedom is messy, life is a bitch, and personal responsibility is demanding, but governments are evil. And we’ve allowed ours off their leash too long to trust them with this.
