DUNDAS, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — An Ontario “death doula” is raising funds for a $500,000 euthanasia “sanctuary” where vulnerable citizens will be killed by a lethal injunction.
In an August interview with local media outlet Thorold Today, Renee Moor, founder and executive director of Journey Home for Empowered Living and Dying, revealed her plans to build Ontario’s first death “sanctuary” to end the lives of Canadians through Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD).
“We offer that guidance in what the family needs, so it’s very open and broad,” she said. “I’ve never had one doula client that is really receiving similar support. It’s showing up for them and opening conversations of what do they want this experience to be like for them.”
Moor is a Buddhist psychotherapist and a certified death doula, a trained professional who provides emotional, practical, and spiritual support to individuals who are dying and their loved ones.
Moor is known for founding and running Journey Home, a non-profit organization whose services mainly entail facilitating MAiD requests.
Now, Moor plans to expand Journey Home by building a $500,000 death “sanctuary” for vulnerable or ill Canadians seeking to end their lives with MAiD. While Moor heavily emphasized using the space for MAiD patients, it will also be available for those who wish to die naturally.
“The death phobia is causing the chaos at the end of life,” Moor asserted, “because we haven’t communicated to our loved ones what we want.”
According to Moor, the death facility would include private rooms for those receiving MAiD, ceremony and ritual spaces, support programs, death doula and volunteer care, and a garden and outdoor space.
“We say that we’re MAiD positive, and that people’s death isn’t about us and our opinions,” Moor asserted. “It’s person-centered dying.”
Plans for the new death “sanctuary” come as assisted suicide cases skyrocket throughout Canada. As LifeSiteNews previously reported, Quebec’s latest palliative care home prides itself on offering assisted suicide to its most vulnerable patients.
Since legalizing the deadly practice at the federal level in 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has continued to expand who can qualify for death. In 2021, the Trudeau government passed a bill that permitted the killing of those who are not terminally ill but who suffer solely from chronic disease.
The government has also attempted to expand the practice to those suffering solely from mental illness but has delayed until 2027 after pushback from pro-life, medical, and mental health groups as well as most of Canada’s provinces.
Overall, the number of Canadians killed by lethal injection since 2016 stands at close to 65,000, with an estimated 16,000 deaths in 2023 alone. Many fear that because the official statistics are manipulated the number may be even higher.