Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
Michael Deacon challenges the use of language in the UK assisted suicide debate in: MPs daren’t admit the awful truth about ‘assisted dying’ published in The Telegraph, December 3, 2024.
Deacon emphasises that language, used to hide the reality of assisted suicide, is Orwellian. Deacon writes:
As Parliament debated the merits of enabling sociopaths to coerce the vulnerable into a premature death, a peculiar little row broke out. The Tory MP Danny Kruger – who opposes the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – had just uttered the words “assisted suicide”. Horrified, the Labour MP Cat Eccles – who supports the bill – leapt up to complain.Deacon continues:
“The honourable gentleman is using incorrect language,” she protested indignantly to the Speaker. “It is not suicide. That is offensive. I ask him please to correct his language.”
The same reaction happens in Canada where euthanasia is legal under the term MAiD. Euthanasia was legalized in Canada by creating an exception to homicide (murder) in the criminal code. "MAiD" activists regularly say it's not euthanasia, it's MAiD, but what is MAiD?
This was a curious intervention. Because, even if one supports the bill, one should at least be able to see that “assisted suicide” is an accurate description of what is being proposed. A patient, having asserted that he or she wishes to end his or her own life, will deliberately ingest a substance that will cause his or her death. That, incontestably, is suicide. So it can hardly be “incorrect” – let alone “offensive” – to refer to it as such.Deacon states: "... the euphemism “assisted dying” isn’t designed merely to fool the public. It’s designed to help its advocates fool themselves."
Indeed, if any term is “incorrect”, it’s “assisted dying” – because it’s a euphemism, chosen by campaigners to make what they want sound more palatable. Much like the euphemisms George Orwell noted in his 1946 essay, Politics and the English Language.
Thank you Michael Deacon for reminding us to use accurate language. Euthanasia is about killing people (literally) and assisted suicide is about assisting in their death.
5 comments:
Thank you. Thou shall not kill people, including yourself!
I am responding to a video of Kelsi Sheren that you appeared on - What caused the government in 2016 to make this exception under homicide?
It was private citizens who lobbied the courts, and the Supreme Court of Canada pushed it back on the government to make these changes This happened while we had a conservative government in place, the liberals inherited it. I am no fan of Trudeau, and I look forward to him being gone, but people have the history wrong and blame this on the liberals - the ball got rolling under a conservative government.
Regarding Stephanie Green, she was doing a very good service with her minute by minute second by second video, she wasn't wasting time - She was correcting numerous wrongs - hardly a waste of time. One could argue Kelsi Sheren is wasting time driving a false narrative on YouTube as a content creator.
How is Stephanie Green wasting her time? Kelsi Sheren is a combat veteran - but she was not attacking Kelsi Sheren as a combat vet - Kelsi came out and made statements that were incorrect - so Stephanie Green responded, she wasn't responding to a combat veteran, she was responding to a person spreading misinformation. Kelsi can't have it both ways - attack a field of medicine that Stephanie Green is passionate about - but expect to be immune to rebuttals because she is a combat vet?? Come on - how ridiculous! Kelsi goes on to say that she has healed from a million issues (seriously?? 1,000,000 issues???) that Stephanie Green is killing people for - can you or Kelsi name 10 issues that she has healed from, and provide evidence of people who Stephanie Green has performed a MAID on that had those exact same issues - just ten out of ONE MILLION 0.001% - not a hard ask, and given that mental health diagnosis are permitted for a MAID I am very curious. If you want to be taken seriously, stop with the exaggerating.
Are you and Kelsi insinuating your content isn't worth being pushed back against?? Kelsi drew the attention of an expert in the field and accuse them of wasting their time?? I guess neither you nor Kelsi feel as passionate as you seem to come across on your videos.
I agree that mental health has no place for a MAID- The entire event with medical assisted death being suggested to Canadian soldiers should never have ever happened. That was 100% wrong.
The assertions on the Jordan Peterson video were also wrong, claiming that a paralytic is given first, that’s an insult to healthcare providers, giving a paralytic first would be cruel and it does not happen.
I believe in access to a medically assisted death in the face of a terminal illness, such as stage four pancreatic cancer - why should I not be able to ask my doctor to euthanize me? I’m using the term euthanize because it seems that’s the term those against MAID want to use, I could say murder I could say whatever word you want. At the end of the day, if I am diagnosed with a terminal iillness, I’m not interested in spiralling downhill reliant on opiates and strong pain medication to make an easy death. I want to go out on my terms when I’m ready. And no one should be able to stop that....why would you want to try and stop that??
The parallel to the Nazis I completely disagree with you, yes there’s some verbiage that’s the same however that does not put us on the same level as the Nazi's - are you saying that everytime the words compassion and care are used - it is reminiscent of the Nazi's???? Are we rounding up people in Canada putting them in concentration camps to murder and exterminate? I don’t see cattle cars full of people rolling down the rails. I don’t see brown shirts in the street with muzzled, vicious, dogs, intimidating citizens. I don’t see medical experiments going on with children and the incapacitated...... When people were euthanized in Nazi Germany did they have a choice? People have a choice in Canada if they want to ask for an assisted suicide or a euthanizing, did the Nazi Germany?
There are a lot of things to say about your comments. If you read my blog articles you will quickly begin to learn what has happened in Canada. Email me at: info@epcc.ca and I will send you some key explanatory articles.
Anonymous-LIBERALS OPENLY SUPPORTED THIS AND ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS ANY TYPE OF KILLING SHOULD BE CALLED WHAT IT REALLY IS "A SUPPORTER OF KILLERS AND KILLING" AND REALLY SHOULD HAVE THAT LABEL PLACED ON THEIR NAMETAGS AND "PROFESSIONAL TITLES"; SOMEONE WHO IS TERMINALLY ILL SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL THEMSELVES? ONCE THAT IS FORCED ON PSYCHOS MEDICAL TEAMS IT BECOMES ABUSIVE TO VULNERABLE PEOPLE WHICH IT ALREADY HAS THAT IS WHY IT IS A NATURAL LAW "NOT TO KILL" FOR A REASON!!! WE ARE IN AN ADVANCED STAGE OF HUMANITY WHERE THERE IS KNOWLEDGE FOR HEALING AND NO EXCUSE; THERE SHOULD BE SUPPORTS FOR ALL IN PLACE REGARDLESS OF CONDITIONS TO HELP AS KILLING IS NOT HELPING A HUMAN LIFE AND SUGGESTIONS FROM A MEDICAL TEAMS LET ALONE HARASSMENT TO VULNERABLE PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS REALLY CONSTITUTES OF ABUSE NOT HELPING OR ASSISTING!!! NOBODY IS EXAGGERATING EXCEPT FOR THE PSYCHO ABUSERS WHO BULLY PEOPLE AND FAMILY AND FRIENDS THAT THEY ARE "SELFISH" AND SHOULD CONSIDER KILLING THEMSELVES NOT TO BE SELFISH WHEN THAT IS THE PSYCHO ABUSERS BEING SELFISH IN THEIR OWN NARROW THINKING AND EXAGGERATING THE TERM OF "HELP" BECAUSE IT IS NOT HELPFUL TO BE FORCING PEOPLE WHICH IS WHAT GOVERNMENTS REALLY WANT TO LEGALIZE TO ALLOW THIS NONSENSE ABUSE TO LEGALLY BE ALLOWED-IN PLAIN SIMPLE ENGLISH IT IS WRONG AND AGAINST NATURAL LAWS AND SICK TO BE BOTHERING PEOPLE LIKE THAT WHO SIMPLY GO TO PROFESSIONALS WHO ARE "EDUCATED" FOR HELP AND ASSISTANCE AND ABUSES PEOPLE IN SO MANY WAYS AND DIMENSIONS AS WELL AS THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS AND OTHER "CLEAR THINKING INDIVIDUALS"
Justin Trudeau Has Been Openly Supporting Killing For A Very Long Time And It Is Not New; In Addition These Forms Of Killing "Euthanasia" "MAID" "Assisted Suicide" Whatever Terms You Want To Call It And Is Currently Being Titled, Is In Simple English Terms "KILLING"; It Becomes Extremely Abusive To Vulnerable Patients, Their Friends & Family When You Have These Annoying Medical Staff Harassing Everyone That The "Patient" Should Consider This; This Is Extremely DIGUSTING AND WRONG Inherently In Itself As IT IS KILLING! EVEN MORE DISGUSTING THAT JUSTIN TRUDEAU Himself Supports This, And While You Have Him Concerned About Sending Billlions Of Dollars In Canadian Taxpayer Money OUTSIDE OF CANADA For USES THAT DO NOT ASSIST CANADIANS AT ALL AND IT IS TAXPAYERS MONEY, HE WILL SAVE MONEY HERE BUY KILLING CANADIANS BORN HERE WHO HAVE BEEN LIVING HERE YEARS AND SUPPORTING THE COUNTRY IN ALL WAYS THEY COULD AND MORE THAN HIM THAT IS!!! AGAIN VERY WRONG! AND THEN YOU HAVE THE OTHER TOPIC OF MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS---WELL, ANYWHERE YOU HAVE PSYCHOTIC MEDICAL TEAMS AND "PSYCHOTIC EDUCATED PROFESSIONALS" TRYING TO ABUSE VULNERABLE PEOPLE IN ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF DIMENSIONS BY PRESSURING THEM IN MANIPULATIVE WAYS BECAUSE OF PSYCHOTIC CONTROLLING SELFISH TENDENCIES TO HAVE THE VULNERABLE TO ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE ALLOWED TO BE KILLED ANYONE WILL AUTOMATICALLY ASSUME THAT IF KILLING IS ALLOWED TO BE OPENLY PRESSURED ON VULNERABLES THEN OBVIOUSLY EXPERIMENTATIONS BY THESE SAME PSYCHOTIC EDUCATED PROFESSIONALS OBVIOUSLY DOES TAKE PLACE TOO WHETHER OPENLY ADMITTED OR NOT; AND OF COURSE IT DOES, EVERY DAY IN CANADIAN SOCIETY MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS ARE BEING CONDUCTED WHETHER VULNERABLE PATIENTS AGREE TO IT OR NOT AND OF COURSE WITHOUT THEIR WILL AND WITHOUT EVEN SIGNING ANY DOCUMENTS; THE DISGUSTING PRACTICES THAT TAKE PLACE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS IS VARIOUS PHYSICIANS, CLINICS, HOSPITALS, ETC... EVERYDAY IN ALL MEDICAL SETTINGS AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PATIENTS AND HAVING BIG PHARMA AND THESE EDUCATED PROFESSIONALS PROFITTING!!! THIS IS COMPLETEL PARALLEL TO NAZI GERMANY WITHOUT THE SAME NAME AND IT IS WRONG AND DISGUSTING AND AGAIN ABUSIVE IN ALL DIMENSIONS AND VERY SICK AND WRONG TO BE DOING TO VULNERABLE PATIENTS, THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILIES!!!
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