Executive Director - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
A group of Québec doctors held a press conference to explain that the lack of funding for palliative care in Québec is pushing people to seek death by euthanasia.
CTV news reported that the doctors stated that since MAiD was legalized access to palliative care has decreased. The doctors said that:
Dr Paul Saba, was reported as saying that they want to provide the care and support that people need:
Dr. Laurence Normand-Rivest, who specializes in palliative care, told the press conference:
CTV news reported that the doctors stated that since MAiD was legalized access to palliative care has decreased. The doctors said that:
patients have told them that they’re choosing assisted dying because they can’t find adequate palliative care services.
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| Dr Paul Saba |
Dr. Paul Saba, a family physician who is leading the group said fewer doctors have entered the field of palliative care since the law came into effect and that patients are suffering as a result.
“People really are feeling a burden, financial stress, psychological stress and lack of autonomy,”
“So what we want do is we want to give people what they need, and they need care and support.”
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| Dr Laurence Normand-Rivest |
“We were promised that there would be a plan for the development of palliative care in Quebec and the [government] commission asked for five years to develop this plan,”Dr Charles Bernard, the President of the Québec College of Physicians, told the Québec government at the end of May that more funding is needed for palliative care. CTV reported that Bernard wrote to the government stating:
“We’re in 2018, and for now, there’s no plan.”
“Patients, failing to benefit from such care, could have no other choice but to ask for medical aid in dying to end their days in dignity,”
“Patients who ask for medical aid in dying are given priority access to available resources to the detriment of other patients at the end of their lives.”The Canadian government will be receiving reports in December on the extension of euthanasia to children, people with psychiatric conditions and people who are incompetent.
I am truly frightened by the thought of MAAiD for the mentally ill, as someone who sometimes suffers from deep depression, giving me the option of aid in dying can have fatal consequences and I am NOT TRYING TO BE FUNNY! The thought that during a rough patch of time or a long cold winter I might make the wrong choice and die with my doctors help should be a frightening thought for anyone with reasonable level of empathy. Please do not make the horrible mistake of allowing those with a mental health issue to have recourse to legally assisted suicide, that would not be healthcare it would be manslaughter, possibly even murder in the right circumstances. Please Quebec, do not make this horrible mistake!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it a sad day that we now have unlimited killing at the beginning of life ,without safeguards and now it seems we have no limits at the end of life! It is indeed a sad time in Canada
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