I’m not sure how many readers remember Heavy Metal (the cartoon art mag, not the music). They released an eponymously named movie in 1981, which I recall liking. In one scene, someone in charge of something tells the hero, Den, that he “must steal the Loc-Nar from the Queen in order to save Katherine.” I didn’t recall the particulars, had to look it up, but I remember the quote that follows.
Den: And if I refuse?
Ard: If you refuse, you die; she dies… everybody dies!
Pardon the strange transition, but this strikes me as becoming the prevailing line of thought across the government-run medical industrial complex in Canada, and it is why I have opposed state-managed Medically Assisted suicide since I first heard of it. To kick the medically assisted dead horse at least one more time, this will become how the government first “solves problems it created,” and then any problem it can imagine.
You first deprive life of meaning by declaring it a burden and then convince the culture that it will be better off without it. Anyone who doesn’t want to die must now climb a hill upon which almost everyone, especially the State, is against them.
Canada has been the poster child for the slippery slope, expanding the practice 9unofficially) to autism, mental health, and chronic disease, lacking a terminal diagnosis. People injured by the health care industry. Victims of gender surgery gone wrong. At the same time, so-called ethicists suggest it for Vets, the homeless, the poor, and now children as young as twelve.
Now, groups are calling for minors as young as 12 years old to be included in the government-funded suicide program. One advocacy group, called “Dying With Dignity Canada,” recommends minors as young as 12 be included in the program, and goes as far as to suggest 16 and 17-year-olds shouldn’t even need parental consent to be killed by a doctor if they fit broad criteria.
The group calls for assessing age eligibility based on “maturity” rather than “chronological age.”
How hard would it be to convince a twelve-year-old when they are already convincing adults as often as they can?
Disgusting.
Canada was not the first to embrace medically assisted suicide or even euthanasia in general. Still, it stomped on the gas and has passed most Western nations in its pursuit of an excuse to encourage it as an affordable alternative to living (one that makes everyone else around you happier). The elderly, chronically ill, mentally challenged, heck, anyone who strains the increasingly limited resources of Canada’s increasingly socialist system will inevitably be herded like sheep, isolated into rooms with doctors and consultants whose job it is to counsel death.
All while the experts and the politicians move the red line deeper into the general population. This is good for society, and everyone’s like, well, I suppose, until, right up until it’s someone in their life or them. How long before people taken into custody “choose” assisted suicide over their incarceration?
Yeah, he went to meet the MAiD while in custody after suffering from severe depression. Begged for it. He signed the order himself (AI recording, video, handwritten release).
They get their foot in the door with the compassion argument, after which it’s only a matter of time. Twelve-year-olds? Seriously. I bet they get it done in a few years.
And they call us the fascists.
