Medical Journal Article Supports Conjoining Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting

This article is published by National Review online on October 27, 2025.

Wesley Smith

By Wesley J Smith

Back in 1993, in my first anti-euthanasia piece, I warned that once assisted suicide became normalized, it would soon be conjoined with organ harvesting “as a plum to society.” What I didn’t expect was for the leaders of the organ-transplant medical sector to applaud.

I thought they would understand that conjoining organ procurement with euthanasia would create an incentive to be killed. That has happened more than once, and yet organ-transplant and other medical journals continue to publish studies supportive of kill and harvest (my term).

The Journal of Hepatology published an article that cheers the process of performing a liver transplant with the organ of a person who received a lethal jab in Canada. From “Utilization of Liver Grafts Obtained After Medical Assistance in Dying” (citations omitted):

In most cases, the eligible patient is admitted to the hospital, and the MAiD medications are administered in a designated care room – most often a private room in the intensive care unit – in the presence of family or friends, according to the patient’s wishes. The medications are administered intravenously and, although some slight variations exist, most commonly include: 1) heparin at a dose of 1,000 units per kg body weight; 2) benzodiazepine (i.e. midazolam) to induce relaxation; 3) propofol to induce deep coma which also ensures that the patient is fully unconscious and does not experience any discomfort; 4) neuromuscular blockers (i.e. rocuronium) which leads to cessation of spontaneous breathing and, subsequently, death…The patient is then transported to the operating room for the organ procurement. Throughout the process, no member of the procurement team is involved in the MAiD procedure.

Let’s understand what is happening here. A patient becomes suicidal and asks to be killed. He or she is not offered suicide prevention but instead becomes objectified and viewed as a potential organ farm.

This should be profoundly upsetting to the medical sector as it comes very close to violating a corollary to the dead donor rule (only the dead can donate vital organs) that prohibits killing patients for their body parts. To get around that, apologists for conjoining euthanasia and harvesting pretend that the two events are separate.

But are they really? Canadian and other media have made a big deal out of the potential to be killed and donate. People are being “educated” about that potential all the time — one might even say persuaded.

And indeed, in some cases, donating organs can become a strong incentive for being killed, as happened with a 16-year-old brain cancer patient in Belgium. From the glowing story in Le Soir:

She is fifteen years old for a few more days, her eyes sparkling, full of life. . . . It’s summer, the weather is very nice on the heights of Liège, the sun is cascading on its bed. Eva will celebrate her birthday on Sunday – sixteen years old! – and she has long and patiently chosen her gift: she is going to die. . . .

Yes, she wants to die, without too much delay. But not just any old way. She will leave this world through the great door, that of generous souls. She wants to give her heart, her liver, her kidneys, her lungs, she wants to give her body to everyone who needs it here on earth, since this life didn’t really want her and she reluctantly decided to go up there.

Understand that the timing of that kill and harvest was dictated by the desire to donate.

But the patient gave her consent, you may say. Sorry, if consent is all that matters, it opens the door to all kinds of horrors. A civilized society that protects the vulnerable should not countenance them.

Back to the medical journal article:

The favorable results [successful grafts], relative to DCD-III, justify careful discussion of organ donation with individuals seeking MAiD, provided that core ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice are strictly upheld, along with rigorous safeguards. Liver donation following MAiD has the potential to expand the donor pool and help meet the growing clinical demand for organs.

There you have it: euthanasia and organ harvesting as a plum to society. The next step will be organ harvesting as the means of euthanasia, which has already been proposed in major journals because it’s better for the organs. Ugh.

Depleting Special Education Staff At The US Board of Education Will Worsen Abuses, similar to Assisted Suicide Abuses.

Meghan Schrader

By Meghan Schrader
Meghan is an instructor at E4 - University of Texas (Austin) and an EPC-USA board member.

As I’ve written, one of the reasons that I am a vehement assisted suicide opponent is observing the parallels between abuses of power in the Special Education system and abuses of power in the medical system.

Therefore, it is imprudent that in addition to the bevy of recent policy downgrades that seek to make what some people perceive as inordinately stringent disability rights laws less “unduly burdensome” and radically reducing staff at the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, the government has attempted to fire most of the staff who oversee the implementation of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. These changes have led to disabled students’ OCR complaints being stalled and have shifted important oversight of IDEA to whatever authorities the government thinks should be entrusted with that task. Although I’ll be the first to say that IDEA oversight was already corrupt, I seriously doubt that these rapidly dismantled systems are going to be replaced with better ones. I think hurriedly diluting and/or re-modeling oversight of IDEA will exacerbate the problem of Special Education students receiving a substandard education.

When I was a Special Education high school student between 1998 and 2002, people called Special Education students “SPEDS,” and I often heard teachers and students say things like:

Another teenager to me: “You’re a SPED? And you’re reading a book? That’s crazy. SPEDS are stupid and aren’t smart enough to read books!”

Social Studies teacher: “I used to work with retards. Oh, I’m sorry we can’t say that anymore, “Special Needs.” All I did there was rip people apart and keep them from killing each other.”

Teachers having a conversation in the hallway:

Teacher A: He said I was going to ruin his chances for college.”

Teacher B: “What does he mean? He’s a SPED, he’s stupid; he’s not going to college.”

But the comments weren’t Special Education students’ main problem; ambiguous laws gave authority figures the power to try to make Special Education students fulfill those stereotypes.

Between my sophomore and senior years of high school, Special Education and Guidance staff did the following things:

• Didn’t implement my sophomore IEP in a math class and told me to drop the class.
• As a junior I learned that I needed the class for college and fought to enroll in the class as a senior. I pointed out that I hadn’t completed the class because they had illegally violated my IEP. Staff tried to lean on the fact that the deadline for filing an IDEA complaint had already elapsed.
• The year that my IEP was violated, a bipartisan Massachusetts legislature lowered the state’s “Maximum Feasible Benefit” standard for Special Education to the federal Free and Appropriate Public Education “slightly more than the minimum” standard. Guidance and Special Education personnel claimed that because of that standard, the school only had to provide accommodations in classes that were “appropriate” for me to take, and that my dyscalculia was so severe that enrolling me in the class would be “inappropriate.”
• My access to the class with accommodations was still required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, but they tried to claim that under the Americans With Disabilities Act, I was not “otherwise qualified” to take the math class. I did get enrolled in the class a few days before senior year started, but only after my Mom’s panicked appeal to the assistant principal.
• At the time, the law didn’t require Special Education teachers to be highly qualified in the subjects they provided intervention in, so the Special Education teacher didn’t understand the math curriculum; my family had to hire a tutor to do the Special Education teacher’s job.
• I later learned that the math class was a state graduation requirement, but no one told me that.
• Staff told me that the only schools I could attend with a learning disability were a community college or state school. There’s NOTHING wrong with going to a community college or state school, but that advice was false and seemed designed to “keep me in my place.”
• Staff said that hiring a proctor for me to take the SAT II, which at the time was a version of the SAT that could help students show off their writing ability, was a waste of their money and wasn’t legally required because Special Education students didn’t take the SATII. They said that the Americans With Disabilities Act didn’t require schools to provide services that were “unduly burdensome” for them.
• They told me that actually, Special Education students didn’t go to college, so I shouldn’t bother taking any standardized tests.

Bigoted comments are upsetting, but they can, on some level, be “brushed off.” The worst thing about this situation were the loopholes in the law that enabled staff to try to manipulate my choices.

For instance, one of the staff members most insistent on me not taking college entrance exams was my guidance counselor “Dr. D.” I was able to arrange to take the regular SAT off campus with a proctor who didn’t know me, but for whatever reason that wasn’t an option for the SATII, and when I insisted on taking the SAT II, Dr. D. was able to exploit loopholes in the Educational Testing Services’s testing procedures for disabled students to make the process as miserable as possible. The regulations allowed schools to choose the proctor and give students standardized tests at whatever place or time was convenient for the proctor. This flexibility seems reasonable enough on paper and could have turned out fine. But, Dr. D. appointed himself as the proctor. Because I was getting double time on the exam, I wasn’t allowed to take the test on a Saturday morning like other students. He demanded that I take the test from 2 PM in the afternoon to 8 PM alone with him in his office, where he gleefully taunted me and violated my accommodations throughout the exam.

Unfortunately, this guidance counselor had control over several aspects of the college admissions process, so I had to be alone with him in his office several times.

For example, one day I dropped off paperwork at his office and he asked, “Meghan, did I upset you with what I said yesterday?” “Well, what you said about ‘treating me differently’ hurt my feelings,” I said. He said, “Well, you have to understand, you hurt me too, not to get into anything or anything.” “How have I hurt you?” I asked. “You keep interrupting me during the SAT, saying, “Why are we doing this now, why are we doing this now?” (I asked this because he was conducting testing procedures in strange ways that violated my accommodations).

We went back and forth about a couple of other things, and I said, “This is forbidden by my 504 plan.” “Is it?” he sneered. “Yes, and you were making noise,” I said. “Oh,” he said. (My accommodations for ADHD included a quiet environment, but he loudly shuffled papers, tapped files on his desk, printed paperwork and opened and closed file drawers while he was sitting across the table from me.)

Also, as I noted, the guidance counselor had insisted on appointing himself as my test proctor, but when I showed up to take the SATII, I noticed that two other disabled students taking the regular SAT had been allowed to start their tests in the morning and were taking the SAT with hired proctors. So, I said, “And you told me that you were giving the test to two other students, and when I showed up to take the test proctors had been hired to give the test to two other students, and you said you weren’t hiring proctors to give anyone’s test.” “I said that I wasn’t going to hire anyone to give your test,” he taunted. “That’s not what you said at the meeting,” I answered. “Oh,” he quipped dismissively. “And, if you were just going to give us the test together anyway, why would you make it so inconvenient for us by making us take it from the middle of the day until 8 PM? I mean, wouldn’t it be more convenient for you to just come in on a Saturday morning and give it to us? Why would you want to spend your entire evening doing that?” “Meghan, what does your father do for a living?” he demanded. “That’s not relevant,” I said. “Yes it is. What does your father do for a living?” “He’s a dentist,” I said. “A dentist. And does anyone tell him when to do his job?” “That has no relevance,” I answered. “Yes it does. Why should I give up my Saturday just to give you a test?” “Well, then why can’t someone else give it?” I asked. “I do not have to go through the trouble of finding you a proctor,” he scoffed.

“Dr. D, I feel that I’m being discriminated against,” I said. “Oh really?” “Yes. You lied about the SAT. You lied about the math class,” I said. “Your’re a very disrespectful girl,” he snapped. “How am I being disrespectful?” I asked. “You talk back to me. You talk back to the Special Education Director.” I answered, “I do not talk back, I’m standing up for my rights. I don’t feel you take my disability seriously.” “No,” he said. “I know what a learning disability is. This is not about a learning disability. This is about failure to submit to authority. I’m the administrator and you’re the student, and you shouldn’t even be questioning the things you’re questioning. You have no respect for adults, and you do not deal well with them.”

Then he said, “Just wait until you get to college; you’re gonna learn that you can’t treat adults that way. I think it’ll be very different for you.”

When he said this, he smirked, as if he were enjoying imagining my future suffering.

I started to cry, and he kept nodding and saying “uh huh, uh huh.” “I’m leaving,” I said. “Fine,” he said, “just go.”

In the months proceeding that exchange, the guidance counselor “accidentally” forgot to tell my AP English Exam proctor that I was getting accommodations on the test, and “accidentally” sent my transcripts to colleges without the standard explanation of our school’s weighted GPA system, which led at least one college to think that my GPA was 5 points lower than it really was.

All of this was very clearly discrimination, so I approached various people and organizations for help. I went to the Anti Defamation League diversity coordinators at my school, but they said I was experiencing a “personality conflict.” I called the ACLU, but they did not have a disability rights division.

The only organization that would investigate my complaint was the US Board of Education Office For Civil Rights. The process took 2 years to resolve in my favor, long after I had graduated. However, at least I was able to achieve a small measure of accountability. Moreover, after I filed the complaint, the guidance counselor “retired,” so no other disabled students had to work with that horrible bigot.

When one assumes that this stampede of disability policy changes, such as making key disability rights statutes more ambiguous, dismissing most of the US Department of Education’s Special Education staff and hurriedly dismantling organizations like OCR will somehow turn out well for people with disabilities, one is making inordinately generous assumptions about the moral compasses and competency of authority figures and bureaucrats, and the power of good people to resist them. That’s not how the world works.

Man who attempted to assinate President Trump wants assisted suicide.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Ryan Routh

The man who was convicted in the attempted assination of President Trump has asked to be incarcerated in a state that permits assisted suicide.

Elaine Mallon reported for the National News Desk that:

President Donald Trump's failed assassin Ryan Routh, who was convicted last month in federal court, is requesting to be imprisoned in a state which permits assisted suicide.

Routh represented himself during his trial in September. A jury quickly returned a guilty verdict on all five counts stemming from Routh's plot to assassinate then presidential candidate Trump while he played a round of golf at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida. The request by Routh comes ahead of his sentencing hearing scheduled for December 18. He faces a life sentence in prison.

“I would like to plan forward for sentencing and request kindly to be placed in a state that has assisted suicide since I am a constant failure,” Routh wrote. “I have yet been unable to obtain a list, but I hope someone can provide it.”

Routh alternatively requested to be included in a prisoner swap with Iran.

The assisted suicide lobby may argue that Routh wouldn't qualify for assisted suicide because he is not terminally ill and yet the assisted suicide lobby also counsels people to stop eating and drinking in order to qualify for assisted suicide.

Nonetheless, legalizing assisted suicide changes cultural attitudes towards life and death.

Scottish Proposal Would Ban Assisted Suicide Prevention

This article was published by National Review online on October 31, 2025.

Wesley Smith

By Wesley J Smith

Assisted suicide is not legal in Scotland — I have traveled there three times to fight that agenda — but it is a looming threat again. And now, an amendment to the legalization bill has been proposed that would prohibit prevention efforts at or near places where suicidal people’s lives would be ended. From the ADF International press release:

A Scottish parliamentarian and member of the Health Committee, Patrick Harvie MSP, has proposed an amendment to Scotland’s controversial “assisted suicide” bill that would criminalise discussion of suicide prevention within a large, undefined public area surrounding any building where an assisted suicide might take place.

The vague proposal would forbid any attempts to “influence” a person’s decision to undergo an assisted suicide, such as through conversation with a family member or the display of a suicide prevention poster.

Holy cow! Is Scottish nihilism so thick that it would actually criminalize efforts to save lives? We’ll see. But I guess we shouldn’t be surprised, as advocates oppose the right of medical conscience that would allow professionals to opt out of all complicity in killing patients or assisting their suicides.

Also, this would seem to imply that there will be assisted suicide clinics. And indeed, there is a “MAID house” in Canada where patients go to be killed.

What a world, what a world.

Bad News: Illinois Senate passes assisted suicide bill SB 1950.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

I have bad news: Illinois Senate Bill (SB) 1950 passed in the Illinois Senate by a vote of 30 to 27 in the final session of the Senate. On May 29, 2025 SB 1950 passed in the Illinois House by a vote of 63 to 42.

We need everyone to call Illinois Governor JB Pritzker at 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 and tell him to veto assisted suicide bill SB 1950.

When searching on the internet SB 1950 causes confusion because it comes up as the Sanitary Food Preparation Act.

This year, assisted suicide Bill SB9 passed on April 9, 2025 by a vote of 8 to 3 in the Senate Executive Committee. Bill SB9 stalled but was renewed when it's sponsor gutted the Sanitary Food Preparation Act (SB 1950) and inserted the language of the assisted suicide bill. It is ironic that a bill that enables physicians to prescribe lethal poison cocktails to kill patients was attached to a food preparation safety bill.

We need everyone to call Illinois Governor JB Pritzker at 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 and tell him to veto assisted suicide bill SB 1950. Some talking points:

• Legalizing assisted suicide gives doctors the right in law to be involved with causing the death of their patients at the most vulnerable time of one's life.
• Assisted suicide is not about freedom or choice but is a form of cultural and medical abandonment, people need care not death.
• A caring culture supports good end of life care and opposes assisting suicides. 

If you have a personal story, please share it. It is important to remind the Governor that the disability community opposes assisted suicide because legalizing assisted suicide provides death rather than living with dignity.

Once assisted suicide is legal, the assisted suicide lobby will lobby or launch court cases to expand the law. The original assisted suicide bill is designed to pass in the legislature, once passed incremental extensions will follow.

Canadian veteran: 20 veterans have been offered euthanasia.

Kelsi Sheren speech to the Canadian Parliament Veteran's Affairs Committee on October 28, 2025.

I served this country at eighteen.

I went to war on your behalf — a war we now know was built on lies.

I buried friends under the same flag hanging in this room.

And I’ve watched that same flag burned outside these walls while you all stand silent calling it freedom when we know its terrorism.

Here’s the truth: Canada doesn’t count veteran suicides, you never have.

If you don’t count us, you don’t have to admit you failed us.

Every single day since Afghanistan, another Canadian veteran dies by suicide — sometimes two or more.. but you wouldn’t no that.

And the Government of Canada still refuses to track it, publish it, or face it.

You hide behind one outdated study from 2016 as if that’s enough.

It isn’t. It’s cowardice.

We came home to neglect, bureaucracy, and betrayal.

When veterans reach out for help, this government sends investigators, not healers.

We’re followed, watched, and drugged — not treated.

And when that doesn’t work, your system offers us death.

I helped break the story when Veterans Affairs began offering MAID to veterans instead of therapy.

You said it stopped. It hasn’t.

You’re still offering MAID, still issuing NDAs and payouts to shut us up, I no this to be fact. 

Over 20 veterans have confirmed offers of MAID, and I have proof of more.

Offering death to the people you sent to war is moral rot, and this government is full of it.

It is a betrayal of the highest order.

And offering MAID to people with PTSD is beyond insane.

Research shows 46% of those with PTSD have suicidal thoughts — and 19% attempt suicide.

You don’t offer them a needle, a paralytic and drug that fill your lungs as you drown to death in your own fluid…  You offer them help.

Instead, you threaten our benefits if we speak out.

You silence us with bureaucracy and fear.

And your Veterans Affairs Minister — a figurehead with ZERO credibility — blocks veterans online for telling the truth. I know this because she called for a photo op with me and when I said no she began blocking my posts and comments on her social media for calling out her hypocritical behaviour.

Weak leaders like our Veterans Affairs Minister breed case managers who think they can get away with anything including offering to kill us.

One of the reasons I say this so confidently, is because I just did a press conference opposing MAID and the expansion. 

At the same time Senator Pamela Wallin of Saskatchewan is facilitating a back door closed meeting with MP’S and Senators with Canada’s government funded pro death cult, dying with dignity. 

Lobbying our government to continue to expand death as a solution for the disabled, homeless, Mentally ill and our veterans. The senator who said she cares about veterans lives and built a political platform off of us, is right now as we speak lobbying in another room to kill us.

You don’t fix a broken system by euthanizing the people who protected it.

And while you fund death and continue to expand, you deny life-saving treatments.

Psychedelic-assisted therapy is proven and peer-reviewed to treat PTSD and depression.

Other nations across the globe study it and successfully use it. Canada buries it in red tape.

I know, because I’m the only person in Canadian history to legally receive medical psilocybin outside clinical trials.

Before I was approved, Health Canada offered me electroshock therapy as a solution after over a decade of screaming for help.

Think about that — this government would rather electrocute a veteran’s brain than allow a plant.

One of the only reason I’m alive is because Apex Labs fought through the Special Access Program, not this government, they did everything they could to shut down my support.

Every treatment that’s helped me has come from outside Canada, except for Dr. Passy in Vancouver— The rest of the treatment was paid for by Americans like Heroic hearts project, defenders of freedom and private donors.

While you hand out opioids in vending machines, acting like your helping. We’re begging for actual solutions you refuse to provide.

This is what betrayal looks like.

You spend billions a year on Indigenous and veteran programs, yet the money never reaches the people who need it.

It dies in committees, paperwork, and photo ops.

Meanwhile, half a billion dollars goes to foreign wars — while the soldiers who fought for this one can’t get basic care.

So let’s be radically honest.

This hearing — this room — is theatre, everyone here knows it.

But somewhere in this country, a country that used to look and act like Canada, a veteran won’t make it to morning.

A family will lose their loved one.

Children will grow up without a parent.

And the void they leave will never, ever be filled.

It won’t be because they were weak.

Not because they didn’t try every minute of every day just to keep breathing.

It’ll be because a country that sent them to war and keeps sending kids to wars built on lies refused to bring them all the way home.

And it will be your fault. That blood will be on your hands.

I will tell anyone who wants to join: don’t.

They will leave you to die, and step over your body.

Veterans aren’t asking for pity. We’re demanding accountability.

Count every death. Publish the data.

Stop offering death as policy. Fund treatments that work.

Train case managers who actually understand trauma.

Stop selling our care to insurance companies.

You call us heroes when it’s convenient and “terrorists” when we speak up.

That’s not leadership. That’s shame.

We were trained to fight for this country.

Now we’re forced to fight against it — just to stay alive after serving it.

So yes — I live with PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and major depressive disorder, hearing loss and treatment resistant depression

But I’m still here. And I will spend the rest of my life exposing this government’s failures until no veteran or person in this country sees MAID as their only way out.

If you ignore us after today, every suicide that follows belongs to you too.

Because what you refuse to confront, you choose to allow.

Fund the real solutions.

Stop choosing drugs and death over healing and humanity.

We had a saying in uniform:

Never leave anyone behind.

It’s time this government started living by that.

Thank you.

Swiss Suicide Clinic Under Fire After Deaths Without Medical A Condition

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Article: Suicide clinics have many controversial deaths (Link).

Judith Hamilton, Alastair's mother.

Yahoo news reported the an article in People Magazine states that families of people who died at a Swiss suicide clinic are saying that their loved ones, who died, did not have a medical condition.

The article reports that Judith Hamilton, whose son died at the Pegasos suicide clinic stated that:

"It's like a business. If you have enough money, they offer you a service,”

The article reports on the death of Alistair Hamilton:

One notable case that received backlash involved Alastair Hamilton, a 47-year-old chemistry teacher with no serious or terminal illness. He traveled from London to end his life with Pegasos while his family believed he was going on a weekend vacation to Paris.

"He hugged me and said, 'I love you, Mum.' I didn't know it was his goodbye," his mother, Judith Hamilton, told RTS.

When Alastair stopped answering his phone and failed to return home, Judith reported him missing. She said she eventually found bank records that showed her son paid 12,000 Swiss francs (about $15,000) to Pegasos.

"It's like a business,” Judith claimed. “If you have enough money, they offer you a service.”

Pegasos was founded in 2019 and is available to adults over 18 who are of “sound mind” and have paid a fee. They offer assisted suicide “regardless of state of health,” which differs from other organizations that require patients to be terminally ill to end their lives.

To add to the grief, when Pegasus acknowledged Alistair's death they informed the family that his ashes were being sent in the mail. The article states:

Alastair’s brother Bradley told the outlet that they repeatedly emailed Pegasos after seeing the bank records but did not get a response. He alleged they were finally able to get a response from the clinic after involving the police and British embassy. At that point, Pegasos reportedly confirmed Alastair’s death and shared that his ashes would be sent to them in the mail.

A ITV news show found that Alastair admitted to Pegasus that he did not have a known medical condition but they assisted his suicide anyway:

Limited to 300 word answers, Alastair told them that his undiagnosed condition was causing him "pain, fatigue and discomfort" which had "devastated my life".

However, he admitted that "there is no current, definitive medical explanation" for his illness and that his family did not know he had decided to take his own life.

Despite that, Pegasos accepted his application and within several days of arriving in Switzerland he was helped to die.

Pegasos is not different than the other Swiss assisted suicide groups, they only appear more controversial because their business model is foreign suicides. Other Swiss suicide clinics, such as EXIT and Dignitas, that also focuses on foreign suicides, are also willing to kill people who are not dying.

The problem is assisted suicide. Allowing suicide businesses creates a profit for killing.

More articles:

• Euthanasia activist, Sean Davison arrested in death of a 79-year-old woman (Link). 
• A mother's warning about her son's death by assisted suicide in Switzerland (Link).

Pamela Wallin’s Secret Meeting with the Death Lobby

This article was published by Kelsi Sheren on her Substack on October 27.

By Kelsi Sheren

On October 28, behind closed doors on Parliament Hill, Senator Pamela Wallin will meet with representatives from Dying With Dignity Canada the pro death cult lobbying to expand assisted suicide across the country to more vulnerable and hopeless Canadians.

The meeting will not be public. Shocker.

Its purpose: to persuade more Senators and MPs that Canada needs broader access to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) a policy that has already claimed over 90,000 lives under the guise of “compassion.”

It is a betrayal not only of our veterans, but of the Canadian people to the fullest extent.

Pamela Wallin built her public image on duty, service, and loyalty to those who risked everything for this country.

Her Senate biography reads like a patriotic résumé: Canada’s Consul General in New York after 9/11; member of the independent panel shaping Canada’s mission in Afghanistan; champion of veterans and military–civilian understanding.

Yet this week, the same senator is sitting down with the most powerful pro death cult lobby in the nation. She disgusts me, and now that people are aware, it should disgust you. She lies, promotes veterans while simultaneously lobbying to kill more of us.

While veterans fight for mental health care, housing, and dignity, Pamela Wallin is giving private access to an organization that turns death into policy.

She’s not building bridges anymore. She’s burning them, right to the damn ground.

Dying With Dignity Canada has spent years lobbying to expand MAID beyond terminal illness now into chronic pain, psychological trauma, mental illness, homeless, addicts and pushing for mature minors (CHILDREN).

That means the very people Pamela Wallin once claimed to protect veterans with PTSD and traumatic brain injuries fall squarely within the new “target population.” We know this, because they’ve offered it to several of my personal friends, and are continuing to do so today.

That is not compassion. That is a system telling the wounded they are expendable, they always have and will continue too because no one in this government is held accountable.

When a senator who built her career on defending those soldiers now meets with the architects of that policy, she’s not just crossing a moral line she’s erasing it, and she will be remembered for it.

Tomorrow’s meeting isn’t a routine consultation. It’s a moral inflection point. 

While the Canadian mental health system collapses under its own weight, over run by immigrants not paying into a system and suicide rates among veterans rise, the Senate is opening its doors to the apostles of state-sanctioned death. Murder’s who claim to be angels of death.

This is how civilizations lose their soul, one quiet compromise at a time and at this point Canada barley has a soul left to save.

Behind polished doors, with polite phrases like “autonomy” and “choice,” the machinery of despair grinds on.

“When government calls killing compassion, language itself becomes a weapon.” This government wouldn’t understand real compassion if it punched it square in the face. Because in the government, word’s and thoughts are violence and killing the vulnerable and to be celebrated as brave and bold. Were completely lost and the laughing stock of the world.

The new order is here, eugenics is back and in style baby.

For a single second can we all stop pretending this is about dignity. Dying With Dignity Canada has become a pro-death lobby wrapped in euphemism, a movement selling suicide as social progress. Ironically counselling suicide is supposed to be illegal and frowned open. Not in Canada, its the opposite. Sick people like Dying with Dignity who hate their own lives, live in despair and enjoy killing somehow are getting away with promoting suicide. Spending hundreds of thousands on ads on META. Yet, speak out against killing the disabled and now I’m some domestic terrorist who’s lost my mind.

These people are sick, mentally ill and enjoy death. I’ve seen enough of that in my life, the difference between these people and their sick “Dr’s” is that I didn’t come home from Afghanistan craving more killing. They kill and enjoy it, brag about it in the National Post and get paid for it.

And Pamela Wallin, who once stood for courage and service, is now providing them credibility.

This isn’t leadership. It’s moral surrender, failure and once again terrible attempts at some form of leadership.

While Pamela Wallin meets with Dying With Dignity Canada, I will be standing with the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, holding a press conference to demand transparency, accountability, and a halt to further MAID expansion.

We will speak for those who cannot: the veterans offered death instead of help, the disabled told they’re a burden, the poor who can’t afford to live with dignity but can die at no cost.

A nation that calls that progress has lost its compass.

When the doors close and the lobbyists lean in whose side are you on?
The living, or the system that profits from their despair, death and theft of organs.

Pamela Wallin once stood with soldiers who fought for life, liberty, and duty. 

Tomorrow she stands with those who call their deaths dignified. She can’t serve both sides.

And Canada shouldn’t let her try, she should lose her damn job.

She’s compromised and it’s obvious she prefers death over life.

Well done Saskatchewan, your leader is apart of the largest modern eugenics movement and will be remembered for just that, I promise you.

Gordon Friesen: No to Euthanasia for mental illness.

Gordon Friesen (Center)

Gordon Friesen - Parliamentary Press Gallery Speech for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition in support of Bill C-218, the bill that will prevent euthanasia for mental illness alone, on October 28, 2025. Gordon's speech starts at the beginning. 

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My name is Gordon Friesen, I am President of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

Today we are holding a Press Conference in support of Bill 218, advanced by Member Tamara Jansen, to reverse permission of euthanasia for mental illness alone, now set to begin in 2027.

Our take-away message is this:

No to Euthanasia for Mental Illness!

The MAID policy Canadians have received is not at all as promised. Maid was only to be for people who were dying, only for adults, and only for those who were truly able to choose.

Unfortunately, all of those promises have been broken.

Bill C-7, for example, did away with "reasonably foreseeable death".

But most important, is the expectation of real personal choice.

That is what fuels support for MAID: not that people believe any particular person should die-- but that they might, perhaps, themselves, make free, informed, competent, and adult choices.

Obviously, however, euthanasia for the mentally ill does not fit that description. For the symptoms of mental illness often make that sort of choice impossible.

Indeed, it was long assumed that all MAID patients would be carefully examined to rule out the influence of psychiatric disorder.

Unfortunately, such hopes ignore the perverse reality of presenting death as medical care.

The capacity we demand for medical consent has a much lower bar. And that is because medical treatment is understood to be a good --and even essential-- benefit, so that gaining patient consent should be as easy as possible.

For the mentally ill, this means that a person might be declared legally incompetent, even to spend their own money, but still be considered capable of consenting to a doctor's proposition of medical homicide.

Please notice, that I very deliberately say "consenting to a doctor's proposition of medical homicide".

For although ordinary people may still mistakenly believe that patients must themselves spontaneously request euthanasia.

That is not how medicine works.

It is the doctor who informs patients of available options, and then steers them towards whichever one he or she believes to be best.

Candidly speaking, it is this aggressive marketing of death as medical treatment which has turned a few hundred expected MAID cases into over sixteen thousand in 2024 alone.

And it also explains recent stories of people in acute psychiatric distress, desperately seeking institutional help, who are then professionally informed of their eligibility to be killed, in that place, by doctors.

Clearly, all of this is disastrous for the security of those persons afflicted with mental illness.

But from a wider perspective it also destroys all notion of MAID as an authentic patient choice.

Plainly, the precedent of medical homicide for mental illness opens a crucial gateway to other situations of questionable consent.

Now on the drawing board, for example, we find the projected euthanasia of children from 12 years onward, and of infants up to 12 years --in addition to demented seniors whose former selves had made advance requests.

And behind these again, we have other cohorts of persons who are no longer --or have never been-- capable of consent.

Any weakening of the choice principle places all of these at deadly risk.

The only certain way to prevent such appalling outcomes is to definitely close that pathway now.

For the sake of the mentally ill, and for that of larger society:

Let us say, together, No to Euthanasia for mental illness.

Join us in supporting Bill 218 for that purpose.

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Maintenant, j'aimerais m'adresser directement aux Députés Québecois et Québecoises

En 2021 j'ai eu l'honneur de participer aux consultations de La Commission spéciale sur l'évolution de la Loi concernant les soins de fin de vie. L'une des conclusions principales de cette démarche se lis ainsi:

"La Commission recommande de ne pas élargir l’accès à l’aide médicale à mourir aux personnes dont le seul problème médical est un trouble mental."

En conséquence, l'article 26 du loi ainsi modifiée stipule:

"un trouble mental autre qu’un trouble neurocognitif ne peut pas être une maladie pour laquelle une personne peut formuler une demande".

Je vous somme, donc, tous et toutes, de défendre cette politique non-partisane, telle qu'établie par l'Assemblée Nationale, et d'acceullir positivement le projet de loi 218.

Kelsi Sheren: MAID and the Cost of Abandonment

No to euthanasia for mental illness.

Kelsi Sheren - Parliamentary Press Gallery Speech for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition in support of Bill C-218, the bill that will prevent euthanasia for mental illness alone, on October 28, 2025. Kelsi's speech begins at 10 minutes 15 seconds.

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Hi everyone, my name is Kelsi Sheren.

When I was 18 I put the uniform on and deployed to Afghanistan at 19 I understood that I might die for my country.

What I didn’t understand was that one day, my own government would quietly offer to help me do it.

I’m here today as a Canadian combat veteran. I live with PTSD, a traumatic brain injury, major depressive disorder, treatment resistant depression and hearing loss…..that weight never really leaves. I'm 100% disabled. I’ve seen what war does not just overseas, but long after you come home. 

And what I’m seeing now is something I never thought possible in Canada.

Behind closed doors, in quiet conversations, veterans are being offered Medical Assistance in Dying not therapy, not recovery, but death.

And today, Senator Pamela Wallin is hosting a back door closed meeting with the pro death cult Dying with Dignity. She is helping them lobby to convince more MP’s that they should be voting to kill more vulnerable, disabled Canadians starting in 2027.

We’re told it’s compassion. We’re told it’s “a choice.” But when someone’s drowning in trauma and desperation that’s not choice. That’s coercion wearing a polite face.

I’ve spoken with veterans who reached out for help asking for therapy, for treatment, for hope. And what they got instead was an offer to end their life.

This is not one or two. This is well documented of over 20 and growing., I know this because I report on it daily and people trust me with their stories.

Imagine how deep that hopelessness must go when your own country looks at you and decides that death is the best it can give you.

This isn’t hypothetical. It’s happening. And it’s not just veterans.

People with disabilities, with chronic pain, depression, or poverty they’re being told the same thing.

They’re being nudged toward death because supporting them is seen as too expensive, too inconvenient.

This is the uncomfortable truth.. this is not compassion when death is offered instead of care. It’s a moral rot disguised as mercy.

And while all this is happening, Canada still refuses to give veterans access to the treatments that could actually save lives treatments like psychedelic-assisted therapy.

Evidence-based. Safe. Effective. Used and studied around the world to treat PTSD and trauma.

But here? Here we’re told no. Here we’re told to suffer quietly.

Or worse — we’re told to die “with dignity.”

That’s not dignity. That’s policy-driven despair, driven by sick people to hurt more.

This isn’t healthcare. This is surrender. And it sends a clear message: Your life costs too much.

Veterans are dying. People with disabilities are dying. Not because they want to but because they’ve been convinced their lives no longer matter by the entire healthcare system, lobby groups and their government.

Canada doesn’t even track veteran suicides. I know this, because I am testifying to just that later today. Think about that. We send soldiers to war, and when they come home broken, we stop counting.

It’s easier not to face the truth when you refuse to measure it.

This is a government choosing death over duty every single day.

Veterans and civilians don’t need MAID. We need meaning. We need community, We need real treatment. We need a country that still believes we’re worth saving.

So let’s stop calling this “choice.” Because it’s not a choice when survival isn’t an option.

This isn’t about dying with dignity, giving up and quitting when life gets hard.

We want a life with real dignity and rolling back the expansion of MAiD is the only way to achieve that.

Thank you.

Picture: (Dr Paul Saba, Alex Schadenberg, Kelsi Sheren, Gordon Friesen)