Have We Done Canada Killing The Poor?

[irc]

Euthanasia is legal in Canada. Seems that it is now being used in cases where the patient does not have a terminal illness.

"I have been coerced into assisted death by abuse, neglect, lack of care and threats. For example, at a time when I was advocating for assistance to live and for self-directed home care, the hospital ethicist and nurses were trying to coerce me into an assisted death by threatening to charge me $1,800 per day or force-discharge me without the care I needed to live. I felt pressured by these staff raising assisted dying rather than relieving my suffering with dignified and compassionate care.
    Hospital staff failed to provide me with the necessities of life. I was starved and denied water for up to 20 days. I became severely acidotic. An expert who reviewed the case concluded a failure to provide necessities of life and gross negligence."

https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/43-2/J...

"Next year, the floodgates will open even further when those suffering from mental illness "

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-...

Doesn't sound like the cuddly Canadians we think of.

[rodericb]

The people who did that last time made the fundamental mistake of not convincing folk that they needed to die and were convinced to agree to it.

[768]

irc said:

Doesn't sound like the cuddly Canadians we think of.

I suspect the UK doesn't look great from the view of reading the press abroad, but it does sound like Canada's gone off the deep end in recent years.

[SWoll]

How we laughed..

[Drawweight]

Wasn’t that always going to become the way?

Abortion was introduced to the UK under strict guidelines and we all know how that went.

Is there any reason to believe euthanasia won’t end up the same?

[vixen1700]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-54728717

[SWoll]

vixen1700 said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-54728717

Rather a different approach, assuming of course it stays within the boundaries mentioned.

"The law will allow terminally ill people with less than six months to live the opportunity to choose assisted dying if approved by two doctors."

[Countdown]

if they're being persecuted in their home country shouldn't we offer them asylum?

[SWoll]

Countdown said:

if they're being persecuted in their home country shouldn't we offer them asylum?

They would appear to have considerably more justification for claiming such than many who are arriving?

[dudleybloke]

This from a country with its first black prime minister.

[Leithen]

Never thought I'd read a Spectator article arguing for increased welfare spending.

Will be in BC in a few weeks time and will ask what the general feelings are.

[Murph7355]

Drawweight said:

Wasn’t that always going to become the way?

Abortion was introduced to the UK under strict guidelines and we all know how that went.

Is there any reason to believe euthanasia won’t end up the same?

Where has abortion gone in the UK?