Back in March, Canada added mental illness to its list of MAiD-eligible conditions. What's MAiD? It's Canada's 'Medical Assistance in Dying' program. It was meant to help patients with terminal illnesses die with 'dignity' and now it's devolved into being used to off the poor, Canadian military veterans, the disabled, and the mentally ill.
This writer has written about MAiD several times, and now here's some number from 2023.
FIVE PERCENT of Canadian deaths were medically-assisted suicide last year.
In Canada you can get euthanized if you are suicidal.
— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) December 15, 2024
1 in 20 Canadian deaths were from medically-assisted suicide in 2023: report https://t.co/xmpr86HzJt
The story in question is about Kathrin Mentler, a woman who struggles with suicidal ideation. She sought help for a crisis and was offered assisted suicide rather than suicide prevention:
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“It was pretty disheartening and made me feel helpless,” Mentler says. “I’m coming here because I’m looking for help and you’re telling me there is no help.”
That’s when the counsellor asked Mentler if she’d ever considered medically assisted suicide.
Mentler says she was “shocked” and “sickened” because she came to the Access and Assessment Centre for help, “not for recommendations on how to kill myself.”
She says the counsellor explained how MAID worked and said lots of patients asked about it, adding patients don’t “suffer” because they take benzodiazepines before receiving the lethal injection.
Mentler says the counsellor also told her about another patient who had several mental health diagnoses and had been taking several different medications when they’d drowned.
“She said she felt sad but that she also felt relief for this person to pass away,” Mentler says.
The story — and the counsellor’s “relief” — disturbed Mentler. She says it felt like the counsellor was making a judgement that it was better for that patient to have died.
Lord have mercy.
If you run the numbers more Canadians are euthanized per capita by their own government than the US has firearms deaths (per capita!) Yet we have a “gun” problem. If so they clearly have a “government killing their own people” problem!
— colovion (@Colovion) December 15, 2024
The Canadian government just banned pretty much all guns, too.
Nothing good comes from this.
Expect those numbers to go up as the government accountants figure out that end of life care is expensive.
— RickNotRockets 🌻 (@rjward1775) December 15, 2024
They'll keep rising, because welfare is expensive too.
— Ed (@Ed_Wulff) December 15, 2024
Make it make sense.
This is what state sponsored "healthcare" always gets to - kill off as many as possible to make our numbers
— Just the gardner (@justthegardner) December 15, 2024
It's monstrous.
How long until it's mandatory?
— UnipartyBomber (@magajcs) December 15, 2024
Slippery slope
Not very.
This was inevitable in an awful healthcare system like Canada has
— CatDadDan (@Dan2058980) December 15, 2024
This was always the natural progression
Always.
I have no words for how evil this is. https://t.co/dbonpbc4ST
— Barbara Jordan (@lessonlearned96) December 15, 2024
There are no words.
There’s an argument to be made for MAID being accessible for untreatable terminally ill patients but 1 in 20 is insane.
— David Menna (@marmisto) December 15, 2024
If we had been told 20yrs ago a state would greenlight inducting 5% of all de*ths, we would have called it a genoc*de https://t.co/AYNTWCfeO7
That's basically what it is.
They're culling the poor, the disabled, the mentally ill, those with eating disorders.
It is a genocide.
Healthcare for all! Lol https://t.co/6ar3ZrBUha
— Seth Noble (@Nobes135) December 15, 2024
It's FREE!
Remember this as Trudeau lectures us on not being progressive enough to elect a woman POTUS or ban guns. Five percent of their deaths are state-sanctioned murder. They don't have a moral leg to stand on.
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