Death Cult: How Assisted Suicide is becoming more and more widespread in Canada

June 2016 was the first time in Canadian history that some people could choose to receive medical help in ending their lives. The conditions to qualify were very specific:

• Could not be based on mental illness - could only be physical illness
• Was not available to minors
• Could not be based on long-term disability or curable condition
• Available only to Canadian residents
• There was a waiting period
• The patient gave consent after being given all other available options, such as palliative care
• 10-day waiting period

This right to die is not found in our constitution. Like so many other such laws, it was invented out of thin air by the Supreme Court. They "discovered" it within laws pertaining to the right to life, how ironic. The court "graciously" gave the government a year to find a way to make it the law. Not really sure how that works. Nothing was done in that timeframe so they were given an additional 4 months. Eventually the court just decided it was a right. Eventually the government officially passed a law stated such.

That was just 3.5 years ago. Now, there is a new proposal on the table called Bill C7 which will vastly expand those who qualify to be killed by a doctor.

Some of the new things being proposed include the following:

Someone who previously gave consent does not now need to give consent immediately before the procedure takes place. Previously a person would have to be of sound mind to accept being killed. But now it can be based on a previous decision. The bill does not specify if there is an expiry date on a previous request. It has been determined that up to 8% of people who previously give consent subsequently revoke that consent.

The new bill seeks to remove the 10-day waiting period. Theoretically this means a patient could be euthanized on the same day that they request it. How does anyone think this is a good idea? The premise behind the original 10-day waiting period was that our moods and attitudes can change within the span of 10 days. Anyone can relate to being very upset or angry at a situation and it seeming dire in their minds, only to change their attitude 10 days later. Alas they want to remove this.

Another extremely important safeguard that is being proposed for removal is the requirement of 2 witnesses to testify as to the person's wishes. They want to reduce it to 1. Even two isn't very many in my opinion. Just imagine an unscrupulous person who would prefer the patient to die. Just that one person can act as a witness. At least with 2 witnesses, there is something of a safeguard there.

Another provision that is being threatened is the one which states the patient must be dying. They want to remove this. Non-dying patients would be allowed to avail of assistance in dying in they simply wanted to die for a particular reason.

These are just a few of the things this bill is looking to change. As Andrew Coyne points out, people who said things would devolve to this point 3 or 4 years ago would have been criticized for using slippery slope thinking and for being alarmist. Well, now this is becoming a reality.

Of course, it won't stop at any of these measures. It will just keep getting worse and worse. There are many issues with all of this. We are telling elderly and disabled people that their lives are meaningless if they experience any pain or hardships. As a society we are telling them they might as well kill themselves. Such a pathetic society we have become. This is a violation of the 4th and 5th commandments. We should not kill our elders nor the disabled.

I feel as though many older people will be pressured into ending their lives prematurely. They will be told it's the right thing to do. They will see all their friends and family following that path. Bill Gates once rhetorically asked whether it's better to save the life of one older person or to hire 10 teachers. We will be asking our elders to make such decisions. The right to die quickly becomes the duty to die. We start to evaluate human worth based on what a person can produce or what they bring to the table, rather than seeing them as invaluable and loved by God. They ought to be seen as worthy of life and our love.

I saw a disturbing video not long ago of a man dancing with his wife near a hospital bed. He had decided to be killed and he wanted to dance with her. She had posted the video. The sad part is she seemed proud of the whole thing. Like, isn't it sweet that we danced right before he had someone kill him? I read the comments and they were almost unanimously in favour of what was happening. They all gushed about how sweet it was, how loving and affectionate, etc. It was none of those things. In this man's time of suffering and need, he was given over to be executed. This is not a good society.

The Catholic Church allows people to make use of palliative care and pain-reduction drugs, even if as an unintended consequence the person dies because of the use of these drugs. But the Church will never allow a person to voluntarily choose to kill himself. It is a grave offense against God Almighty to do such a thing. He gave you your life and you have no right to take it.

Part of the reason for the proliferation of this phenomenon of assisted suicide is our horrible socialist healthcare system. Reports come out frequently showing the extremely long wait times people are forced to endure to receive medical treatment. Hospitals are low-quality and everything takes forever to get done. People from other countries may be surprised to know that in Canada, especially where I am from, entering into the Emergency section of the hospital and having to wait 10 hours to talk to someone is commonplace. If a person requires medical care, procedures can take dozens of weeks and sometimes over 2 years to receive. It's the equivalent of bread lines for healthcare.

There is an all-out promotion of assisted dying from the medical community in Canada. They see it as a method of cost-reduction. In a socialist system, consumers of a product or service are seen as a problem, not as customers that must be catered to. So many doctors and health-care administrators are really pushing assisted suicide as a great option. In Newfoundland, where I am from, one particular doctor actually wrote a newspaper article bemoaning the fact that due to strong family connections and taboos against assisted suicide, uptake was low in the province. He felt this was a problem. What a horribly twisted way of thinking.

The only solution to all of this is an all-out ban on medically-assisted suicide. I refuse to call it the euphemism of "Medical Assistance in Dying". It's not dying, it's murder. But things are getting more and more Orwellian.

We must not only oppose expansion of assisted suicide laws, we must seek a complete repeal of them. It is a gravely immoral injustice that is a blight to our country.

Sources: https://www.christianlegalfellowship.org/blog/2020/2/26/billc7analysis