From article:
A mother in Canada was horrified when she discovered that her son had made an appointment to kill himself with the help of a doctor.
The incident shines a light on how Canada’s assisted suicide program has spun entirely out of control.
On Sept. 7, Toronto resident Margaret Marsilla logged in to her 23-year-old son’s email account and discovered that he had applied for permission from the Canadian government to be killed. A doctor had approved the request and scheduled the murder for Sept. 22, Common Sense reported.
Marsilla knew that her son was depressed, but she didn’t know he was contemplating suicide.
He had diabetes, a history of drug abuse, and had lost sight in one eye. The latter appeared to be a tipping point for the young man, and he applied to the government’s “medical assistance in dying” program to end his own life.
An email confirmed that the procedure would entail two drugs, the first to put him in a coma and the second to stop his muscle movement and his ability to breathe. He would then die of suffocation in his sleep. The procedure would take no more than 10 minutes, the doctor said.
Marsilla was both frightened and outraged that the government and this doctor were working to kill her son. She posted her fears to Facebook, and the story went viral. “The doctor [literally] has given him the gun to kill himself,” Marsilla wrote.
As the young man’s case drew attention, things got so sticky for the doctor who approved the suicide that he canceled the procedure.
Sadly, Marsilla’s son is furious that he was unable to end his life. In an interview with Common Sense, he reiterated that his life is hopeless, that his blindness will only get worse, and that he simply wants to end his suffering.
“I was so ready [to die],” he said. “I was actually very looking forward to ending my pain and suffering.”
Suicide is on the rise in many countries, the World Health Organization noted last year. In the U.S., for instance, veteran suicides have drastically climbed. Law enforcement has seen a similar problem.
Canada’s assisted suicide program started with “good” intentions. At first, only the most extreme cases — mostly people over the age of 65 — were approved. But over time, the victims began skewing younger and younger.
https://www.westernjournal.com/mother-horrified-learn-sons-death-scheduled-two-weeks-skimming-email/
I see what’s going on in most of these terribly negative and shameful comments
I’ll let you in on a secret: you are going to die some day. Most of you think you’ll be getting a piggy back ride in heaven by Jesus Christ. Yet you are absolutely terrified of death. Ironic? Should death be exciting to you faithful?
Here is the deal: you can die when you choose, or you can leave it to random chance (or God’s will, call if whatever you want.)
If quality of life is low and a person decides they’ve lived all they care to live, that is their free and respectable choice.
You all seem to think it’s better to splatter your brains across the room for a loved one to find rather than pursue a quick painless clean ending.
Tell me what disabilities you endure that give you the credibility and life experience to be able to harshly judge someone else’s decision for what to do with their own life?
When someone decides it is their time to go, you are saying they should suffer until… when?
Are you saying until ‘god takes them?’
If that is the case, you would also need to be against usage of medical support.
If god gave this guy diabetes, who are we to interfere by providing insulin shots
This guy needs to accept and endure his suffering because that was what god chose for this individual.
Is that not what you are saying?
Otherwise, if assisted suicide is unacceptable, would you like to be the person who opens the door to find him with his brain splattered on the wall?
What a sick individual you are.