This article was published by National Review online on August 13, 2025.
By Wesley J Smith
Wesley Smith
Opponents of euthanasia have been screaming about Canada’s god-awful euthanasia machine for years. And it keeps getting worse. Now, the mainstream media — usually in the tank for assisted suicide — has finally noticed, as demonstrated by a thoroughly researched and objectively presented story by Elaina Plott Calabro.
It’s a long piece, but it’s well worth everyone’s time. Calabro discusses examples of doctors who have killed hundreds of patients, people who have had themselves killed because they couldn’t access proper support services, and many other cases. Euthanasia is Canada’s fifth-leading cause of death, with more than 15,000 patients terminated annually.
But this section really got to me. From, “Canada is Killing Itself“:
The details of the assisted-death experience have become a preoccupation of Canadian life. Patients meticulously orchestrate their final moments, planning celebrations around them: weekend house parties before a Sunday-night euthanasia in the garden; a Catholic priest to deliver last rites; extended-family renditions of “Auld Lang Syne” at the bedside.
For $10.99, you can design your MAID experience with the help of the Be Ceremonial app; suggested rituals include a story altar, a forgiveness ceremony, and the collecting of tears from witnesses. On the Disrupting Death podcast, hosted by an educator and a social worker in Ontario, guests share ideas on subjects such as normalizing the MAID process for children facing the death of an adult in their life — a pajama party at a funeral home; painting a coffin in a schoolyard.
Brr. And guess what. These patients do not receive suicide-prevention interventions. And their organs may be harvested.
When the hastening of death is legalized, it turns some suicides and homicides into a “good.” That transforms culture for the much worse. For example, a 2023 poll found that 28 percent of Canadians polled favored allowing euthanasia for homelessness.
In all of this, I am reminded of the observation made by Canadian journalist Andrew Coyne many years ago:
“A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death. A culture that has lost its faith in life cannot comprehend why it should be endured.”
Canada is indeed killing itself. If it can happen there, it can happen here too. Caveat emptor.
9 comments:
It I is with disbelief that we have gone from a nation who fought two great wars to preserve life that we suggest pyjama parties to celebrate someone taking their lives.How did we get so twisted in our thinking .God said return to me and yes that is the truth. There is a God and He has a godly plan for our life .don’t be misled by these diabolic thoughts you have a soul. and you are loved by your Heavenly Father and your fellowman anyone who thinks that death is the end it is only the beginning of eternity and there is a future ask Jesus God’s Son to come into your life and allow Him to transform your life.You are of great value and yes you need to be celebrated but not because you choose to end your life but because you choose to live your life .Give Jesus a chance He said call on me and I will show you great a mighty things that you know not.Choose life in Christ and live eternally in His presence and experience the good life He has for you.You are of great value you deserve to live my prayer is you will choose Jesus Christ and experience joy everlasting.blessings Marlyen
It appears that humanity has a growing hate for itself. - Thomas Lester
Beyond horrifying. We are in Nazi Germany all over again at a pace the world has never seen nor accepted before. What has happened to the actual human being we are suppose to be?
I think it is worse now than in Nazi times. Nazis were enemies, now killing doctors, nurses and social workers pretend to be our friends.
The Nazi's though didn't ask if you wanted to die and didn't even bother trying to convince you to die, they just killed you, so they may be worse.
How could a Catholic priest agree to administer the Last Rites before the intentional commission of a mortal sin under Catholic dogma? Rather he should dissuade that person or refuse the Sacrament. What are the Canadian bishops thinking?
Alex the world learned from the nazis mistake. They learned to go about their evil ways less publicly and not as quick. Don’t forget Canada was part of the Eugenics movement (in the 1920’s) which Germany was too. When the world learned what the Nazis had done the public outcry was so loud that evil men learned to go about wiping out the weak, the old, the disabled, the unwanted in a much more subtle way.
Everyone considering euthanasia by MAiD should be forced to watch the Jordan Peterson interview with Kelsi Sheren. MAiD is extremely painful, but they don't tell you that. In a nutshell, they paralyse you with one drug, then drown you slowly with another. And you feel everything, but cannot react.
Most people in the USA do not take seriously what the USA did in 1946. My USA government decided Nazi Germany had pretty good science and military expertise, so the government very wrongly brought over 1600 Nazi German scientists, Physicians, and Military experts over to the USA to build up our military to protect the USA against Russia during the Cold War. The USA now has 42 percent of the entire world's military power. And has been thoroughly researched by even Scientific American that is all this military power that is destroying the atmosphere and causing climate change, I will be sharing this on the Website I started to help fund different minority groups here in the USA and through ChildFund International. I developed epilepsy when I was 12 years due to Rubella Encephalitis. I had to hide that I had epilepsy because my doctors realized that I could easily be taken away from my parents. And the one institute that got started with Nazi Germany Scientists was NASA. This popular government program here in the USA worked with Germany to use children with epilepsy to research how humans react to gravity changes so the USA could get a man to the moon. My doctors kept me from dying by helping me hide that I had epilepsy. I even made it to Medical school in 1969, but when I had one seizure, I got kicked out. And like Alex told me one time, he did not think that Nebraska would promote euthanasia. But with all the times I got so sick from people during the Pandemic -including nurses- refusing to get vaccinated or wear a mask, I think my area of the world is already promoting euthanasia when they knew I could not get any vaccines while I was having my cancer treatment in 2023. , But I want to share that I am doing my PhD with Baylor University because I really do think that it is my community's medical care promotion of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology about disability that saved my life from cancer in 2023-2025, and my life when I developed epilepsy.
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I will be raising funds for Euthanasia Prevention Coalition when I start selling my art, and will also be raising funds for persons with disabilities in Canada, as well as in my Norfolk, NE I will also be raising funds for ChildFund International because I have raised two daughters through them, although I will likely never be able to meet them in person on earth. These daughters and the other child I am sponsoring are half of my life. I began working with ChildFund International in 1995, about one month after I had found out I had been sterilized when my then-husband kicked me down the steps, and I lost our baby girl, and I refused to go back to him to get beaten up some more because I have epilepsy. This story will be on the website I will have for the nonprofit I will have. I also want to assure all of you that I will let Alex read and critique what I am proposing for my PhD in Holocaust Studies at Baylor University.
Because any trivialization of a life is terribly wrong
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