State-Sanctioned Murder A.k.a. euthanasia in Canada

Written by ANDREAS OEHLER on December 20, 2022. Posted in Current News

The supporters of the euthanasia programme in “Western democracies” push back forcefully against any parallels with Nazi Germany’s state sponsored euthanasia (sic!).

E.g., read an essay “Nazi Germany and Its So-called Euthanasia Program” by one Derek Humphrey.

His argument: “What Nazis called euthanasia wasn’t euthanasia. Our euthanasia is true euthanasia.”

Like offering euthanasia for a PTSD treatment-seeking Canadian veterans, impromptou and unsolicited, or to a homeless person desperate for a break, or a psychiatric patient for whatever reason, or to babies, having no say in the matter altogether?

All that is needed in Canada for a person to be whacked, sorry, “euthanized”, at a minimum, is two registered nurses’ signatures plus a signoff by a hospital stuff (does a hospital janitor count?). Not such a big hurdle. What can go wrong there, really? We are a lawful democatic state after all, aren’t we?

Back to Derek’s “essay”:

Professor Lucy S Davidowicz, a historian, sociologist, and author of The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945, has argued that studying the Nazi experience does not enlighten us as to the problems we confront today about euthanasia.

She writes: “Euthanasia as the Nazis used the term is not euthanasia in our terms. Euthanasia was only a code name which the Nazis used both as camouflage and euphemism for a program of murder — killing various categories of persons because they were regarded as racially ‘valueless’: deformed, insane, senile, or any combination thereof.”

Call me stupid, but I fail to spot any difference. Here’s how the Canadian government explains the expanded euthanasia law that came into effect on Match 17, 2021:

Who can provide medical assistance in dying and who can help

Those who can provide MAID are:

• physicians
• nurse practitioners (in provinces where this is allowed)

Those who can help provide MAID include:

• pharmacists and pharmacy technicians/assistants
• family members or other people that you ask to help
• health care providers who help physicians or nurse practitioners

These people can assist in the process without being charged under criminal law.

State-sanctioned murder with impunity for little helpers.

Who qualifies? Let them eat cake! From the same canada.ca web page:

In order to be eligible for medical assistance in dying, you must meet all of the following criteria. You must:

• be eligible for health services funded by the federal government, or a province or territory (or during the applicable minimum period of residence or waiting period for eligibility)
  • generally, visitors to Canada are not eligible for medical assistance in dying
• be at least 18 years old and mentally competent. This means being capable of making health care decisions for yourself.
• have a grievous and irremediable medical condition
• make  a voluntary request for MAID that is not the result of outside pressure or influence
• give informed consent to receive MAID

Grievous and irremediable medical condition

To be considered as having a grievous and irremediable medical condition, you must meet all of the following criteria. You must:

• have a serious illness, disease or disability (excluding a mental illness until March 17, 2023)
• be in an advanced state of decline that cannot be reversed
• experience unbearable physical or mental suffering from your illness, disease, disability or state of decline that cannot be relieved under conditions that you consider acceptable

You do not need to have a fatal or terminal condition to be eligible for medical assistance in dying.

You must be able to give informed consent both:

• at the time of your request
• immediately before MAID is provided unless special circumstances apply (see Waiver of Final Consent).

You can withdraw your consent at any time and in any manner.

Yeah, we all know how the “informed consent” worked the last time, don’t we?

If that wasn’t enough, “Canada prepares to expand assisted death amid debate” (CTV News, 2022.12.02):

Canada is preparing to expand its medically assisted death framework to become one of the broadest in the world, a change some want to delay due to concerns vulnerable people have easier access to death than to a life without suffering.

Starting in March, people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness will be able to access assisted death. Mental illness was excluded when the most recent medical assistance in dying (MAID) law was passed in 2021.

That will make Canada one of six countries in the world where a person suffering from mental illness alone who is not near their natural death can get a doctor to help them die.

The new, wider hoops to jump through to get whacked will be:

People will still need to apply and be deemed eligible by two clinicians who must determine whether they have an irremediable condition causing them intolerable suffering and whether they have capacity – whether they understand and appreciate their condition, the decision and its consequences.

“Tired-of-life cases in Canada are happening,” said Madeline Li, a cancer psychiatrist specializing in palliative care who put together an assisted death framework for her Toronto hospital network.

“I’ve become very comfortable with MAID for people who are dying. I am less comfortable for expanding indications. … We’ve made MAID so open you can request it for basically any reason.”

Madeline is less comfortable with killing just anyone, yet somewhat comfortable nonetheless:

What if you don’t request it and get whacked anyway? Coming soon to an abattoir, sorry, pharmacy, near you, I guess. Just one more iteration of the “legislation”.

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