MAiD is between you, your doctor and a panel of doctors. Full stop end of sentence. Quit dramatizing, you’ve obviously never worked in health care, that is clear.
And of course your first mistake in the United States is co-mingling church and state which do NOT belong together in political decisions — just look at the mess you’re in because of it.
Worry about your own ‘insurance-based’ medical system before commenting on ours 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Illinois has joined the death march of euthanasia. May the politicians repent or find themselves in personal devastation. When you no longer see people as made in the image of God, evil takes hold.
If I ever get to the point where my mind is completely gone, I told my wife "Just forget to lock the wheelchair and let it roll of the cliff." Likely she would never do it, but it's *my* prescription, not the State's. There are doctors who might increase the morphine for horrible pain to fatal levels, at the patient's request, but I hope never at some bureaucrat's instruction. Once we take away patient and doctor independence, we are heading down the path of moral blindness.
Minnesota has already passed legislation disguised as “compassionate care” allowing medically assisted suicide. Things like this always begin as “care” but as you see Canada has morally corrupted the system. The same thing will happen in the United States if we allow it. Most people don’t even know that many states are passing this legislation. Thank you for the article Alexander.
“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of 'Admin.' The greatest evil is not done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice….where power is exercised not through overt violence, but through cold, administrative decisions.”
If the analysis is reduced to cost against benefit *to the system* then the threshold becomes pretty low. Poisoning someone to death is cheap. When does it become more “cost effective” to use bullets rather than poison? Maybe putting “patients” in boxcars and shipping them to camps to be gassed en masse is cheaper?
How many Canadians voted for flooding the country with (putting it kindly) culturally incompatible foreigners? At the last election they were told by their current Prime Minister it would stop. Has it?
This is absolutely chilling, Alexander. I was born and raised in Canada, and have been an American citizen and pastor here in the United States for decades now. I have often prayed for and bemoaned the spiritual state of my native land for many years now. I have often said that Canada desired to become Europe, and sadly they succeeded. I saw this in terms of how secular it has become since its strong Christian rooting during my childhood years. This piece highlights an ominous new dimension to that secularism. I thank you for sharing it and will pray for spiritual and political change there.
A deeply amoral and inhumane practice that is made worse by being disguised as compassionate medical care. Thanks for researching and sharing this post.
Lol.
MAiD is between you, your doctor and a panel of doctors. Full stop end of sentence. Quit dramatizing, you’ve obviously never worked in health care, that is clear.
And of course your first mistake in the United States is co-mingling church and state which do NOT belong together in political decisions — just look at the mess you’re in because of it.
Worry about your own ‘insurance-based’ medical system before commenting on ours 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Illinois has joined the death march of euthanasia. May the politicians repent or find themselves in personal devastation. When you no longer see people as made in the image of God, evil takes hold.
And they call us Nazi’s! Sick.
You have no idea how much I agree with you. New York just started this January. I radically disagreed with it.
The "toxic empathy" we have heard discussed...
If I ever get to the point where my mind is completely gone, I told my wife "Just forget to lock the wheelchair and let it roll of the cliff." Likely she would never do it, but it's *my* prescription, not the State's. There are doctors who might increase the morphine for horrible pain to fatal levels, at the patient's request, but I hope never at some bureaucrat's instruction. Once we take away patient and doctor independence, we are heading down the path of moral blindness.
A corollary,
A Culture That Celebrates Dismembering Children In The Womb Can’t Understand Why It’s Afflicted With Mass Shootings https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/27/a-culture-that-celebrates-dismembering-children-in-the-womb-cant-understand-why-its-afflicted-with-mass-shootings/
Life has become cheap, and sprang from the “it’s just a clump of cells,” lie.
Minnesota has already passed legislation disguised as “compassionate care” allowing medically assisted suicide. Things like this always begin as “care” but as you see Canada has morally corrupted the system. The same thing will happen in the United States if we allow it. Most people don’t even know that many states are passing this legislation. Thank you for the article Alexander.
Just like gender affirming care. Such an evil lie.
Absolutely demonic.
This is coming for the US.
“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of 'Admin.' The greatest evil is not done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice….where power is exercised not through overt violence, but through cold, administrative decisions.”
~ C.S. Lewis “The Screwtape Letters
If the analysis is reduced to cost against benefit *to the system* then the threshold becomes pretty low. Poisoning someone to death is cheap. When does it become more “cost effective” to use bullets rather than poison? Maybe putting “patients” in boxcars and shipping them to camps to be gassed en masse is cheaper?
Poisoning in local settings will always be the most cost-effective way, we are already at our worst
“Canada remains a democratic society”
You say that with such certainty.
How many Canadians voted for flooding the country with (putting it kindly) culturally incompatible foreigners? At the last election they were told by their current Prime Minister it would stop. Has it?
You wanted socialism delivered via a giant Nanny Welfare State and you got it, good & hard.
This is absolutely chilling, Alexander. I was born and raised in Canada, and have been an American citizen and pastor here in the United States for decades now. I have often prayed for and bemoaned the spiritual state of my native land for many years now. I have often said that Canada desired to become Europe, and sadly they succeeded. I saw this in terms of how secular it has become since its strong Christian rooting during my childhood years. This piece highlights an ominous new dimension to that secularism. I thank you for sharing it and will pray for spiritual and political change there.
A deeply amoral and inhumane practice that is made worse by being disguised as compassionate medical care. Thanks for researching and sharing this post.
I suppose we are better in that we offer neither help nor assisted death, just tough it out on your own.