We used to know that double suicides are double tragedies. Legalizing assisted suicide changes that. We must glamorize it, so that we can live with ourselves.
While refraining from campaigning on the issue, Poilievre, to his credit, has said previously that he will 'scrap' the Liberal's plan of expanding euthanasia to the mentally ill 'entirely.'
There has been no shortage of warnings about Canada’s euthanasia regime, and many of the most prominent voices are not the religious pro-lifers the government finds so easy to contemptuously dismiss. And yet, these horror stories are denied and ignored. Why?
Jonathon Van Maren sits down with Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition to discuss the latest efforts to legalize euthanasia for the mentally ill in Canada, what a future Conservative government might change, and more.
Dr. Ellen Wiebe rejects the case made by disability rights groups that they are vulnerable, and that social pressure and even coercion often accompanies euthanasia.
In an especially disturbing case, Christine Gauthier, a Paralympian and veteran, asked the authorities if she could have a stairlift installed in her home. She received a letter asking if she had ever considered assisted suicide.
Disability advocate Mitchell Tremblay said people are choosing suicide ‘because it has become one of the only ways to escape poverty, homelessness, bad treatment from landlords, and the feeling that the government doesn’t care about them.’
Another line informing physicians that the care they provide would 'usually' be given with the intention 'to prolong a patient’s life' was also erased.