The Canadian State Is Euthanizing Its Poor and Disabled
https://jacobin.com/2024/05/canada-euthanasia-poor-disabled-health-care
Canada boasts one of the world’s highest assisted-death rates... However, this suicide program increasingly resembles a dystopian replacement for care services, exchanging social welfare for euthanasia.
Disability and other advocates have been warning us for years that MAiD puts people at risk. They warned that the risk of people choosing death — because it’s easier than fighting to survive in a system that impoverishes people, and disproportionately does so to those who are disabled — is real.
Indeed, last year, Jeremy Appel argued that MAiD was “beginning to look like a dystopian end run around the cost of providing social welfare.”
In Canada’s most populous province, Ontario, a recipient of disability support receives about $1,300 a month... Ontario Works — the province’s welfare program — pays a current maximum of $733 a month. Meanwhile, rental costs for a one bedroom apartment routinely push toward an average of $2,000 a month in many cities. In April, in Toronto, a one bedroom apartment averaged almost $2,500 a month. ... In 2022, Global News said the quiet part out loud: poverty is driving disabled Canadians to consider MAiD.
... it is plainly indefensible when state-induced austerity and mismanagement leads to people choosing to end their lives that have been made unnecessarily miserable. In short, we are killing people for being poor and disabled, which is horrifying.
Article goes on to show how advocates for the disabled were warning FOR YEARS about this, even before MAiD was legalized. And the Trudeau government continues to ignore it, even when the data is plainly shown to them.
"Culture of death" is a very good expression.
Really good article...I had a German friend who had a sister still in Germany that had Lou Gehrig's Disease or ALS. She was a very independent woman, and this disease was like a death sentence because there was no cure...they only manage symptoms, and it is a very slow excruciating death. She was going to go to England to cash in her chips when she could not bear to live anymore...but Germany ended up legalizing assisted suicide...so when the time came the family all gathered when the sister chose to die...
My friend and her daughter went and according to her it was a very peaceful and dignified way to say good-by to her sister. They were all at peace and it certainly was not a decision that the sister or the family took lightly. For all of them this was a very beneficial solution to a horrible problem.
I am in no way advocating for assisted suicide, but I can see where some people would on their own choose this when it becomes more difficult to live than to die. This was a permanent solution to a permanent problem...unlike the phrase we use with suicidal people...a permanent solution to a temporary problem...
It is tragic when assisted suicide is nothing more than a government sponsored culling of the herd for monetary advantage or to get rid of the old, poor or infirm...in the last year we have had a family member (beautiful 39-year-old niece) and my husband's land owning partner (76 year old man) commit suicide...this was extremely shocking because we had never known anyone to commit suicide, but I truly understand when people find it impossible to deal with life anymore and it certainly appears that suicide is on the rise...
But what they are doing in Canada has no moral higher ground to it...it is nothing more than an advantageous culling of the herd for political expediency...
"in short, we are killing people for being poor and disabled, which is horrifying."
God help us all when euthanasia becomes the normal accepted solution to just existing...
No. Living is always more difficult than dying. Compassionate murder is still murder.
Oh, I totally agree, but I have to allow people to find their own way, whether I agree or disagree and self inflicted suicide has always been an option for people...but that certainly does not mean we have to legalize assisted murder...as Christians we really have to help people to be able to walk through the darkest valleys of life...it is so important to have community and friends and so often people are isolated...we certainly can give people other options...and hope...
I don't have to condone assisted suicide to understand it as a tool some would choose to utilize...
I have a neighbour who's just been diagnosed with ALS. I suggested that she try ivermectin, which is known to be helpful in similar diseases, such as multiple Sclerosis. I doubt that she will.
I have a friend with MS and I suggested Ivermectin to him. He emailed his specialist about it and received no reply. I doubt that he'll push it further. His choice.
Sometimes I wonder why I bother.
I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. Perhaps you bother for the one person who will listen and it just may save their life. It amazes me how ignorant people are of info on healthcare...ESPECIALLY known, proven alternative treatments. Never weary of doing good. You bother because you care and that is a great attribute to have.