By Gordon Friesen
President, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Unsurprisingly, this enormous treasure is aggressively courted by all sorts of political actors (presenting their own pet projects as "healthcare") while actual medical care, itself, is shortchanged in the process. Waiting times, rationing, corridor medicine, these have become the hallmarks of Canada's healthcare system.
Imagine then the administrative enthusiasm which has been fueled by the notion that death (euthanasia) might now be provided as medical care!
(Please note that I am not talking about death-by-choice as a condition of personal self-determination. That is another question entirely. The subject now is euthanasia, prescribed as a cure for all that ails us, by doctors --and sundry other professionals-- working as agents for a State monopoly, whose interests are entirely different from our own.)
No. This is not only about "the most vulnerable", nor the disabled, nor even about the conscience rights of objecting doctors. Those are all real concerns, of course, but what we see in Canada today is no longer limited to any one special interest, or to any coalition of interests. What we are experiencing now is a complete shift of medical practice --a shift of the mission of the entire medical industry-- towards a model of utilitarian veterinary herd-management, where cost-intensive, non-productive members are being euthanized, in order to avoid the expense of maintaining their survival in a dependent state.
No. This is most definitely not about a free individual choice of death (which could be accommodated in any number of ways without vandalizing mainstream medicine). And the proof of that claim can be stated in just one word: mandates.
A liberty to choose death (and even to seek assistance in ending one's life) does not logically entail sweeping, invasive, government mandates --such as those enacted in Canada right now-- forcing virtually every health care institution, and every home-care program, to include the practice and promotion of euthanasia.
Nor can taxpayers have it both ways.
A medical environment where the doctors and support staff have been trained to see the death of expensive patients as an optimal clinical outcome, is not a place where typical non-suicidal patients can be properly treated. Euthanasia mandates do not support choice! On the contrary. They make it impossible for the non-suicidal majority to exercise their own choice of life-sustaining care!
Most of us, I believe, are not paying exorbitant healthcare-justified taxes in the hopes that the money will be stolen --for all sorts of peripheral agendas. And we are certainly not paying those taxes in the hopes that we will one day be put down like a horse or a dog! We wish to be cared for in our time of need, by professionals who believe that medicine can sustain life, well beyond any utilitarian calculation of cost-benefit. That is what we are paying for, and that is what we must demand, from the politicians and public servants who are entrusted with our money.
Once again: rolling back mandates does not involve a lack of choice! Absolutely not. Mandates are the opposite of choice! We must urgently act to nip these anti-freedom, anti-human, utilitarian death mandates, in the bud.
Otherwise, when you or your dear one falls ill: you might as well just take them to the vet.
A really well written article. Thank you. I think Hitler would have been really proud of how Canada is following so closely in his footsteps - first in abortion and now in the euthanasia of those deemed "less than" by society. I shudder to think who could be next?
ReplyDeleteHi Shirley, Thanks for taking the time to encourage our efforts.
ReplyDeleteAs for your parting question, the present frontier of euthanasia practice concerns those incapable of consent: the mentally ill, demented seniors by advance directives, mature minors, and infanticide. This is the dead give-away that the Canadian system was never really about "choice". Choice is a just a convenient fig-leaf used to cover the utilitarian death program.
Hi Dr. Shirley, a very well thought out and worded account of the realities of euthanasia in Canada. Your statements are 100% on target. Euthanasia was only about choice until it was established, now the smokescreens are clearing and we can see this horrible Pandora's Box and the evil agenda rolling out. Our current government is in tight with the UN WEF, and other UN councils hell bent on culling the global population down to half a million people. That means 7.5 billion people have to die! It's worse than the hunger games movie ever projected and the odds are definitely not in my favour, as an older disabled adult.
ReplyDeleteThe general population showed our government and the WEF that 70% of Canadians will follow mandates in the form of the Covid vaccines. Once jobs were threatened and the truck convoy, shut down with people arrested and bank accounts frozen, that resulted in even more fear and caving in to the agenda. Now, the truth is coming into the light and those who took the vaccines and didn't have adverse reactions are dying young and for a various array of reasons that are not normal, but mainstream media continues it's propaganda spinning the narrative that "sudden death syndrome" isn't new and neither are "strokes and heart attacks" in kids and teens. Plus, adults in their 20s and 30s - and no one says a thing!
No this country has bowed to mandates, except for 30% or less who never took the vaccines or believed the lies. The problem is: who will fight for those whose lives are literally at stake every time they enter a hospital? I have cerebral palsy and have been asked three times (twice in Victoria General Hospital, and once in Medicine Hat Regional Hospital. Thankfully the two hospitalizations here in Saskatchewan were not like the others, no one brought up MAID or tried to pressure me in any way. I pray it stays that way, but I have my doubts. This article articulates those doubts perfectly.