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Assisted suicide/euthanizia... The Newsy You: News of Today
Started 11/1/22 by WALTER784; 22769 views.
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From: WALTER784
Sep-6
Showtalk said...
They call hospice palliative care here when the entire purpose is to help people die. The difference is those on hospice can’t be saved.
Well, these are not hospice people who are don death's bed. They're just people scheduled for euthanasia!!!
Euthanasia soars at alarming rate in Quebec with help from aggressive suicide activists
A 55% increase last year makes medical assistance in dying the third leading cause of death in the province behind heart disease and cancer, and there are no signs of the rate slowing down.
Jonathon Van Maren
Thu Aug 17, 2023 - 9:13 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — In 2021, a recorded 3,102 people died in Quebec of fatal lethal injections, making it the world’s “euthanasia hotspot.” That number leapt a staggering 55 percent last year to 4,810, meaning that between seven percent and eight percent of all recorded deaths in the province are through euthanasia. Doctor-administered lethal injections are now the leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, and the rate shows no sign of slowing.
Those numbers appear to be alarming even to advocates of the radically permissive euthanasia regime. Dr. Michael Bureau, president of Quebec’s commission “on end-of-life care” (a grotesque euphemism for death-by-doctor), sent out a memo on August 4 that, according to the CBC, reminds “the province’s doctors to closely follow a new law affecting medical aid in dying (MAiD).”
The new law, which allows people with “serious and incurable diseases” to apply for euthanasia before their condition deteriorates, passed in June. “Each time there is a modification in the law, there is certain confusion among the physicians providing MAiD,” Bureau stated. “They question, ‘Is it within the boundaries of the law, is it permitted or not? At times, [physicians] don’t really know if they are right or not, and at times they’re not.”
This is a tacit admission that some of those being approved for euthanasia are not actually eligible. In fact, Bureau explicitly notes in his memo that people applying for euthanasia because of old age are not eligible, and that a second, independent physician’s opinion is legally required. According to the CBC, Bureau noted that “any deviation from the rules can be a slippery slope, especially as the commission is seeing an increased number of requests for MAiD” – a staggering 500 every month, of which only two or three allegedly do not meet the eligibility requirements.
“It is too early to conclude that there has been a drift in the MAiDs administered, but great rigor is required for providers and great vigilance for the commission,” Bureau wrote. The memo stated that false information about advanced directives had been going around; that some euthanasia applicants were not being given enough time to consider their decision, with more space being necessary between doctor’s appointments; and that “shopping around for a favorable second opinion is not an acceptable practice.”
According to the commission, 15 euthanasia deaths in 2021-22 did not follow the rules, six of which involved victims who do not suffer from a serious or incurable condition. Despite the banal, bureaucratic language, it is important not to miss the implications of this news: Six people were killed by doctor-administered lethal injections who failed to meet even Quebec’s loose criteria. In a civilized country, this would be headline news and provoke widespread horror. But a few “slipping through the cracks” – that is, a few extra people killed – is apparently an acceptable price to pay for our euthanasia regime.
Predicably, Canada’s suicide activists were upset – not by the news that some people were quite possibly illegally killed but that any memo warning caution was sent out at all. Georges L’Espérance, a neurosurgeon and the president of the Quebec Association for the Right to Die in Dignity, said the memo could “stigmatize” euthanasia and that the skyrocketing numbers were merely a result of people understanding their options. “The problem is that many doctors will be intimidated by that kind of memo,” he said. “They will say that they don’t want to [administer] any MAiD because they have fear.”
What kind of person responds to a warning to doctors that they shouldn’t kill any more people who are not “eligible” for state-provided suicide by complaining that this memo could stigmatize state-provided suicide? We have our answer. Canada’s suicide activists are some of the most dangerous people in the country, and their advocacy is a direct threat to the lives of those suffering from mental illness, suicidal ideation, and disability.
Jonathon Van Maren is a public speaker, writer, and pro-life activist. His commentary has
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Host
From: Showtalk
Sep-6
How many of those suicide activists are volunteering for suicide themselves? I bet none.
Staff
From: WALTER784
Sep-11
I think the doctors who allowed this need to visit a psychiatrist themselves...
Woman can't pass acting-course exam, so she gets euthanized!
Lack of success in theater made her 'unhappy'
By WND News Services
Published August 20, 2023 at 2:01pm
A 24-year-old woman in Belgium has been approved for euthanasia due to severe depression.
According to Nieuwsblad, Elien Vervaet said her fear of never being successful in theater led to her depression; six years ago, she went to take a drama course, for which the entrance exam was too difficult. “A year later I played in a play by Theater Antigone. That’s where I felt how much I would like to do that,” she said. “But the realization that I could never do it as a job made me very unhappy. And that feeling has remained.”
Three years into her depression, she applied for euthanasia. It was approved this year by two psychiatrists and a doctor from Vonkel. “Since then I’ve been saying goodbye,” she said. “For many people that is strange: I will never see them again. That remains a strange thought, but it doesn’t scare me off.”
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Vervaet was euthanized in July.
Her story is far from rare; another young woman was euthanized last year, after suffering PTSD following an ISIS terrorist attack. She also had been sexually assaulted, and had made two prior suicide attempts. “This is a deeply tragic case of a young woman who has suffered so much, and it is beyond belief that she was given a lethal injection to deal with this trauma rather than the further psychological support that she clearly needed,” Right To Life UK spokesperson Catherine Robinson said.
Since euthanasia was legalized in 2002, over 27,000 people have been killed in Belgium. And the number continues to rise; in 2022, euthanasia deaths rose by nearly 10%, and accounted for 2.5% of all deaths in Belgium.
Woman can't pass acting-course exam, so she gets euthanized! (wnd.com)
FWIW
Staff
From: WALTER784
Sep-12
French gov’t explores ‘possibilities’ of assisted suicide for people who can’t ‘physically express’ a request
France needs to examine the reality of euthanasia in Canada and reject it's legalization.
Alex Schadenberg
Sat Aug 26, 2023 - 11:10 am EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) — A Franceinfo radio news interview on August 14 with Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, the government minister responsible for health professions, stated that “all avenues are open” as the French government drafts a new end-of-life law that will be presented to Emmanuel Macron at the end of the summer.
Le Bodo stated that she did not want to use the terms euthanasia and assisted suicide. The report stated:
[S]he did not want the terms ‘euthanasia’ and ‘assisted suicide’ to appear in the law. They do not seem to be retained by the minister to date: ‘For the moment, no, I say well for the moment. Having the word death is important. Active aid in dying, for example, contains the word death,’ she underlined. A vital prognosis of less than a year and ‘refractory’ suffering as conditions. [Google translated]
READ: Assisted suicides in California jump 63% in just one year
Le Bodo then states what criteria are being proposed for euthanasia:
To obtain active assistance in dying, the patient must meet several eligibility criteria. The person’s prognosis must be initiated within ‘between 6 and 12 months,’ according to the first tracks of the government… The patient must ‘be of legal age, a prerequisite laid down by the Citizens’ Convention and the President of the Republic in his speech of April 3,’ said Agnès Firmin Le Bodo. It will also be necessary that the ‘sufferings’ of the patient is ‘refractory,’ that is to say that the treatments or the care provided are no longer sufficient to appease the patient. Finally, the patient will have to express a free and enlightened will.’ The government is considering ‘several possibilities’ for ‘people who could not physically express’ this request, she said. [Google translated]
Le Bodo expressed support for conscience rights for medical professionals but she didn’t stipulate the conditions. The report stated:
For Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, the creation of a specific conscience clause ‘seems almost natural and obvious.’ The latter ‘invites and encourages the professional who does not wish to enter into this process with his patient to have to designate a professional who would agree to initiate the process.’ [Google translated]
France needs to examine the reality of euthanasia in Canada and reject it’s legalization.
FWIW
From: Keltos
Sep-14
A lot of people sign documents saying they don't want treatment at the end and just to let them go, but it may be different when the end actually arrives.
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