February 7, 2023 · 7:00 AM
Final 12 months, greater than 10,000 folks in Canada – astonishingly that’s over three % of all deaths there – ended their lives through euthanasia, a rise of a 3rd on the earlier 12 months. And it’s more likely to preserve rising: subsequent 12 months, Canada is about to permit folks to die completely for psychological well being causes.
Solely final week, a jaw-dropping story emerged of how, 5 years into an infuriating battle to acquire a stairlift for her house, Canadian military veteran and Paralympian Christine Gauthier was supplied a unprecedented various.
A Canadian official instructed her in 2019 that if her life was so troublesome and he or she so ‘determined’, the federal government would assist her to kill herself. ‘I’ve a letter saying that if you happen to’re so determined, madam, we are able to give you MAiD, medical help in dying,’ the paraplegic ex-army corporal testified to Canadian MP
God gave me life. It’s as much as God, not me, when it’s over. Over 40 years of training drugs, I’ve by no means had an affected person ask me to “put them down,” like we’d a cherished pet that was struggling throughout impending loss of life.
Steve Parker, M.D.
