The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is urging support for a campaign to reverse Canada's decision allowing assisted suicide for those suffering with mental illness.
'People getting MAiD are actually very privileged. They’re white. They’re well off. They’re highly educated. They’re not in institutions. They have families. The picture is one of privilege,' said Dr. Jocelyn Downie.
Tyler Dunlop's book 'Therefore Choose Life: My Journey from Hopelessness to Hope' is available from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition for $20 for 1 book or $50 for 3 books (+$5 for shipping per book).
'The take home message is that medical professionals, young physicians and medical students must be involved in the AMA,' Euthanasia Prevention Coalition executive director Alex Schadenberg says of the victory.
The editorial quotes Dr K. Sonu Gaind, chief of psychiatry at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, who says there is 'absolutely no consensus' as to what constitutes an irremediable medical condition pertaining to mental illness.
'There is no avenue for us to ‘sue’ them (the government) or charge them with murder. We have abdicated our power and given the government the supreme authority -- the right and the privilege to murder us,' Angelina Ireland of the Delta Hospice Society explained.
Dutch professor Theo Boer noted that 'euthanasia has quadrupled in twenty years' in the Netherlands, and in some regions of the country '15 percent to 20 percent of the people are dying by euthanasia.'
The US Senate bill has been criticized for rewarding those who nudge people into hospice (by way of palliative care programs) where they are subjected to abuse and, in some cases, assisted suicide.