tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post3026149027384583228..comments2024-03-28T13:26:59.030-04:00Comments on Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Judgement day in SCC Canada decision revisited – disability discrimination to death.Alex Schadenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-3197267452064890292015-08-03T15:57:15.986-04:002015-08-03T15:57:15.986-04:00I agree with Michael. I am not a lawyer (thank goo...I agree with Michael. I am not a lawyer (thank goodness !) however I believe that the Supreme court , in invoking the section 5 charter right to life to justify death has created a new right in Canada .. the right to die. The perverse manner in which they did this was to blend the right to die in to the right to life. Now I believe there is no longer a right to life in Canada. - for how can the right to live be a right to die? We cannot even discuss the issue of life any more because the court has polluted the concept of life .<br /><br />I don't think the court has any authority to create a new charter right in Canada. <br /><br />I suggest that the government render the "Carter" ruling nul and void due to abuse of power by the supreme court.<br /><br />Then they can introduce the idea of creating a new right - the right to die. Let Canadians retain the right to life while society debates the merits of a new right to die as a separate idea.<br /><br />Forbid doctors to kill . If there is to be any killing let it be by specialized "agents of death" appointed and trained by the government .<br /><br />Forbid Hospitals or public health institutions to allow killing on premises .Hospitals must remain safe places for the sick and disabled. <br /><br /> <br />Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01822207909567791500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-26518757528263120762015-08-03T10:19:49.901-04:002015-08-03T10:19:49.901-04:00Dear Emily:
Suicide is not a right, and even the ...Dear Emily:<br /><br />Suicide is not a right, and even the disastrous and misleading Carter assisted suicide decision did not state that suicide was a right.<br /><br />Nonetheless, your comments about being forced against your will into a psychiatric ward is sadly not the first time I have received that comment from someone, other than yourself. Discrimination against people with disabilities is a serious scourge in our society that results in the lives of people with disabilities being placed in harms way from birth and through any serious health issue.Alex Schadenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-30658230555028450052015-08-02T18:51:51.251-04:002015-08-02T18:51:51.251-04:00I have a disability, due to my disability I am for...I have a disability, due to my disability I am forced to live in poverty, government cutbacks on services I need to live and enjoy my life leave me barely existing. There are services out there, I just can't afford them. Alex I would like to know since suicide is a right if it is possible to sue for the emotional and physical trauma I endured after being forced against my will into a psychiatric ward after I attempted to exert my right to end my life?Emilynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-2500308105188994362015-07-31T14:03:38.686-04:002015-07-31T14:03:38.686-04:00A great article particularly when you show that &#...A great article particularly when you show that 'bodily integrity' is an empty concept .<br /><br />May I add that the SCC uses the Cdn Charter of Rights in a convoluted and sophomoric argument to promote their pro-suicide views. The SCC argues that the right to live, justifies assisted suicide; because, if someone who is in pain with a progressive and deteriorating illness knows that he/she can never get help to end his/her life, they would then choose to commit suicide immediately. But if assisted suicide is permitted, then the pain victim could postpone his suicide,<br />until the progress of his disease becomes intolerable and the pain irremediable.<br /><br /><br />Thus, argues the SCC, life is preserved, at least for a short time. This argument based on shoulds, coulds, and hypotheticals a plenty, chooses NOT to address the fact that if someone is in pain then medical science MUST TREAT THE PAIN. At this time, medical science is capable of treating physical pain very well. Moreover, the right to life does not encompass, by any stretch of the imagination, a license for doctors to kill their patients, either directly or indirectly. Doctors are paid to cure and/or alleviate suffering not to intentionally kill. <br /><br />The SCC needs to get away from an Ottawa cocktail-party-circuit that is feeding this drivel, and psycho-babble, to intellectually inbred elites. It is time that they were not all in conceptual lock-step. Time to get some fresh air!<br /><br />Much thanks,<br /><br />Michael Meagher<br /> <br /><br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12829057728034779133noreply@blogger.com