Life May Be Harder But - in Canada at Least - Dying is Easier
Euthanasia to be made available for people with mental illness
Assisted dying will become legal next year for Canadians with a mental disorder as their sole condition.
The decision, announced by the Canadian Parliament, is a massive expansion on original euthanasia laws passed in 2016.
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) was originally sold to the public as an option for people experiencing “intolerable suffering” from “a previous and irredeemable medical condition” with a “foreseeable death”.
That will now change.
From March 17 people who are not terminally ill, but whose suffering is intolerable, can have a doctor end their life, including for mental suffering.
The person must be 18, deemed capable of making a decision and have this confirmed by two doctors.
There are a lot of Canadians who supported euthanasia when it was originally proposed, now wondering how they got from the start of the slippery slope to the bottom of the ditch in just six years.
Imagine a society that offers death as a “service” to temporarily broken people who have simply lost their way.
Depressed Person: “Doctor I feel like I don’t have anything to live for.”
Canadian Doctor: “Well, have I got an idea for you!”
With proper counselling and care most people could get their lives back on track and once again, realise their worth to society!
Of course, it’s easier just to dispose of the mentally ill.
Sometimes I wonder if we are the carbon they want to reduce. But I digress.
The timing of Canada’s decision to offer MAID to the mentally ill, including for depression, is, well depressing.
We are just emerging from a two year lockdown, the impact of which is only just beginning to become apparent. Mental health disorders are at an all time high.
But don't worry. While life is getting harder, the Trudeau government has made dying easier.
Lost your job?
Can’t find housing?
Went through a divorce, or two?
Suffering post-natal depression?
In Canada you can now choose between being placed on a long waiting list for mental health services, or being handed a noose immediately.
This is the healthcare system Canada brags about!
In Ontario, nearly 6,000 patients with the most severe mental disorders are on a years-long list for specialist community-based care.
The government have found a way to quickly and efficiently shorten that list.
Instead of helping people out of poverty and dealing with mental illness, Canada has instead decided eugenics is the answer.
The Western world is truly becoming 1930s Germany, and sadly many Westerners seem okay with that.
Germany - the most educated nation on earth in the 1930s - murdered an estimated 300,000 mentally ill and handicapped people between 1939 and 1945 under the pretext of euthanasia.
They deemed certain people to be “life unworthy of life”.
It’s only a matter of time, if the nations’ net zero obsession continues, before we hear the phrase “useless eaters” revived and spun as a problem that must be dealt with, compassionately of course.
Data from the Netherlands, where euthanasia is legal for people with mental illness, shows that people ending their life for mental health reasons tend to be much younger and much poorer than those ending their lives because of physical illnesses. They also tend to be women.
Is this really how we want to treat our young people? Our women?
Is this really how we want to treat the poor?
And another thing. Do we really believe a chronically depressed person can make a rational decision to end their life?
Can a person freely choose to die if they don’t have an equal chance to live with dignity because society decided it was more economical for such people to die rather than to live?
A great deal of people with mental health challenges improve over time.
Canada will next year have a health system that ensures numbers of people will die at the hands of the State before they ever have a chance to recover.
What astonishes me is that when someone suicides - the ordinary, run of the mill type - we post ‘Beyond Blue’ and ‘Life Line’ et al information, terrified someone else may be feeling equally low enough to attempt the same. And what a dreadful thought that someone would be so low as to take their own life?!!
And then there’s Canada...!!
Canada and the US are foreshadowing what will come to Australia if we continue to compromise Christian values and beliefs. Many in the church have called on the blessing of God to benefit personally or doing something which is more akin to business or celebrity. Where have the diehard advocates of Christianity been when these new values and new laws have swept across these countries...focusing on their programs and financial windfalls which come from a tax exempt status and now we awash with other Gods and the worship of these deities. As Christians we are slowly but surely becoming exiled and overrun by those who do not follow our faith...so we need to read the bible and see what happens to a faith community that fails to stand up and worship their God. We must develop community and follow the Book of Acts church model something more akin to the underground church because we are about to become the minority which will face major persecution...our only hope is that in difficult times God works most powerfully to rescue his people.