Canada’s government should help Canadians live, not help kill them
To offer a ‘choice’ between suffering and death which neglects the option of actual assistance in living is evil.
“Medically assisted deaths could save millions in health care spending”—so stated the headline of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News on January 23, 2017, six months after Canada legalized Medical Assistance in Dying/ MAID (a euphemism for physicians killing patients).
If that’s a justification of MAID (and for some it is), it’s sheer wickedness.
First, some perspective is in order. Here is the MAID casualty list for Canada thus far:
- 2016 – 1,018
- 2017 – 2,838
- 2018 – 4,480
- 2019 – 5,661
- 2020 – 7,603
- 2021 – 10,064
- 2022 – Number is yet to be calculated, but the trend is dark.
The above numbers are from the Canadian government document “Third annual report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada 2021.”
I should note that I wonder about the accuracy of this report. I suspect the numbers may be higher. Why? Because, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario: “When completing the death certificate physicians: a. must list the illness, disease, or disability leading to the request for MAID as the cause of death; and b. must not make any reference to MAID or the drugs administered on the death certificate.”
This erodes trust in at least some (a lot?) of Canada’s doctors.
But trust in Canada’s federal government (lead by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) is also eroding.
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