Canada’s euthanasia activists will not be happy until every life-affirming institution is destroyed

Jun 29, 2024 by Jill

by Jonathon Van Maren, The Bridgehead:

Some of you may remember the powerful, heartbreaking story of 81-year-old Christine Nagel, the Canadian woman – who doesn’t approve of tattoos – who had the phrase “Don’t Euthanize Me” tattooed on her upper arm, just to ensure that no medical practitioner could ever claim that she’d requested a lethal injection. Amanda Achtman recorded her story for the “Dying to Meet You” project:

For the same project, Achtman recently interviewed Roger Foley, a Canadian man with disabilities who has been offered euthanasia multiple times (I interviewed Foley here on LSN last week). Foley says that being offered euthanasia feels like a profound violation – that he feels as if he is hanging off a cliff and that medical practitioners are stomping on his fingers. But this is the reality in Canada’s euthanasia regime: a lethal injection can be offered even to those struggling with suicidal ideation and those in their weakest and most vulnerable moments.

This, Achtman noted, highlights the essential need for institutions that are exclusively life-affirming. “There’s a need for euthanasia-free healthcare spaces, not only to protect the integrity of Catholic institutions but also because many patients—including nonreligious patients like Foley—wanted to be treated in facilities that don’t raise euthanasia with patients,” she wrote. She’s right. The difficulty is that these spaces – where they exist – have become targets for suicide activists who want euthanasia offered everywhere.

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