Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Michel Cadotte allegedly killed his wife, Jocelyne Lizette, because they were refused an assisted death. Cadotte has been charged with second degree murder.
In response to the death, the euthanasia lobby is pressuring the government to extend euthanasia to people who are incompetent, such as those with Alzheimer's or dementia, if the person previously stated a wish to die by euthanasia. The media is also using this tragic story to promote the extension of euthanasia.
If euthanasia (death by lethal injection) is extended to incompetent people, how would it be possible to determine whether or not someone has changed their mind?
Recently a woman in the Netherlands who stated, while competent, that she wanted euthanasia died by euthanasia without consent. According to the article in the Daily Mail:
The doctor secretly placed a soporific in her coffee to calm her, and then had started to give her a lethal injection.
Yet while injecting the woman she woke up, and fought the doctor. The paperwork showed that the only way the doctor could complete the injection was by getting family members to help restrain her.
It (the paperwork) also revealed that the patient said several times 'I don't want to die' in the days before she was put to death, and that the doctor had not spoken to her about what was planned because she did not want to cause unnecessary extra distress. She also did not tell her about what was in her coffee as it was also likely to cause further disruptions to the planned euthanasia process.The Alzheimer Society of Canada disagrees with extending euthanasia to incompetent people. According to the CBC news report the Alzheimer Society of Canada stated that they do not support euthanasia for incompetent people. According to the Statement:
people can live with dementia for longer than ten years, and in that time, they may change their mind on doctor-assisted death.
The statement says it's difficult or impossible for caregivers "to know what the person with dementia comes to value over time, especially if those values are at odds with previously expressed desires."
Instead of calling for a broadening of the laws, the organization is calling for better palliative care in Canada.
Legalizing euthanasia gives the power to kill to physicians. No one should have the legal power to kill.
4 comments:
So what is next, killing those who are incompetent, simply because they are incompetent. Then they will start talking about killing those over a certain age because maybe they could become incompetent! Where will it stop?
It is definitely going this way. Population control ideology laced with greed. It will not stop. In our current political climate the culture of death is viewed as a positive things.
The Montreal media has been in ideological lockstep concerning this story. The husband who killed his wife, is treated as a hounded and persecuted victim. Nothing is stated as to why doctors who are legally required to approve, did NOT approve in this instance.
Simply put: the facts are ignored and not presented.
In other words, when killing a wife for reasons of 'compassion' the press gives a pass to the killer.
Michael Meagher
Dementia care homes in Pune help to remove the strain that is often placed on the primary caregiver in the home, thereby helping improve family relationships.
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