Canada’s New Euthanasia Laws Echo Nazi-Era

 

A chilling report out of Canada that has failed to get the attention it deserves. Assisted Suicide is gaining more acceptance here in the States as well, and who is included as a potential participant has become a horror in Canada. Mental health now will be included as well as children without parental consent. Laura Ingraham had a disturbing report and is included..

Already Oregon, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont, Washington state and Washington, D.C., have approved assisted suicide all with residency requirements.

Anything to lessen the values of a a civilized society. A reminder during the halcyon days of Obama when the “death panels” were so aptly described. Otherwise known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board.

George Bernard Shaw: Justify Your Existence

 

 

 

Here we go:

Tim Stainton director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia said the country’s uniquely permissive euthanasia laws were, “probably the biggest existential threat to disabled people since the Nazis’ program in Germany in the 1930s.”

 

Canada’s extremely liberal euthanasia laws, which, next year, are set to be extended to include people suffering from mental health conditions and potentially minors, have been slammed for being reminiscent of the way the Nazis dealt with people with disabilities by a leading academic in the field.

As Adolf Hitler consolidated his power at home in anticipation of war, he moved not only against Jews, Sinti, and Roma but also against those Aryans whom he considered “unworthy of life”—people with epilepsy, alcoholism, birth defects, hearing loss, mental illnesses, and personality disorders, as well as those who had vision loss or developmental delays or who even suffered from certain orthopedic problems. Hitler viewed them as “marginal human beings” who had to make a case for their own survival at a time when the nation was preparing for war.

The first to be eliminated were too young to speak on their own behalf. In fall 1938, the parents of a severely disabled infant petitioned Hitler for the right to kill their child. He granted the petition and saw in the request an opportunity to encourage what he called “mercy killings” or “euthanasia.” 

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Earlier this year I reported:

Canadian Children’s Book Indoctrinates Kids Into Euthanasia

Children are introduced into the medical killing fields by Canadian Virtual Hospice with its Medical Assistance in Dying Activity Book, described as being for children ages 6–12. In it, the child is taught how a person is killed during euthanasia:

The three medicines work like this: The first medicine makes the person feel very relaxed and fall asleep. They may yawn or snore or mumble.

The second medicine causes a “coma.” A coma looks like sleep but is much deeper than regular sleep. The person will not wake up or be bothered by noise or touch.

The third medicine makes the person’s lungs stop breathing and then their heart stops beating. Because of the coma, the person does not notice this happening and it does not hurt. When their heart and lungs stop working, their body dies. It will not start working again. This often happens in just a few minutes, but sometimes (rarely) it can take hours.

And there are activities for the child preparing them for witnessing the event.

 

Medical assistance in dying (MAID) has been available in Canada since 2016

Bill C-7 would allow individuals seeking MAID to apply solely on the basis of a mental disorder. Prior to the bill’s passage, MAID eligibility was based on having a “grievous and irremediable medical condition,” according to a report from the Canadian government on the practice. 

Creighton School of Medicine professor Charles Camosy said Wednesday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” the bill would allow “mature minors” to be euthanized by state doctors without the consent of their parents. 

Camosy argued that the MAID practice exists for several groups already. 

“We’ve got the homeless, we talked about that last time. The poor. The disabled. Those with chronic pain. And then right before coming on, I researched the physicians group in Quebec that wants to kill newborn infants. That’s what’s coming next,” he told host Tucker Carlson.

The medical humanities professor said health care has been “hyper-secularized” in recent years and is based on “cost-benefit analysis.” 

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One can be assured that Seniors will be next on the list. The Cost-Benefit Analysis that is being taught now in medical schools.

The Netherlands?

 

 

A refresher from the past of what our Marxists are about here is the USA. Be especially concerned with the so-called Inflation Reduction Bill. The cost reduction in pharmaceuticals is fraught with the potential abuse in denying expensive drugs with a new “Independent Drug Advisory Board” being set up. Earlier posts:

April, 2011 NY Times Paul Krugman cheers inclusion of death panels in Obama’s Budget Plan

The main thing, though, is the strengthened role of and target for the Independent Payment Advisory Board. This can sound like hocus-pocus — but it’s not. You have people who actually know about health care and health costs setting priorities for spending, within a budget; in effect, you have an institutional setup which forces Medicare to find ways to say no.

Recall our earlier post: Kidney Patients being told to accept death and forgo dialysis

”It was meant to keep young and middle-aged people alive and productive. Instead, many of the patients who take advantage of the law are old and have other medical problems”. Take advantage?

 

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America’s ailing society

by Mustang

We live in a vast country.  In 2019, our population was 328.2 million people.  According to Johns-Hopkins Medical Center and the National Institute of Mental Health Disorders, one-quarter of our population suffers from clinical and manic depression, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Many of these people suffer from more than one mental disorder at any given time, such as depressive illness concurrent with substance abuse and anxiety disorders.  Ten percent of our population suffers from depression, bipolar disorder, or dysthymia in any given year.  Women are nearly twice as likely to suffer from major depression as men, but men and women are equally likely to develop bipolar disorder.

The average age of the onset of mental disorders is the mid-20s.  Most people who commit suicide have a diagnosable mental illness, such as clinical depression and substance abuse.  In this group, men are four times as likely to commit suicide than women.  Women, however, attempt suicide more than men.  Whatever the outcome, scientists say that mental health issues begin to manifest themselves in both men and women during adolescence.

Mental health books

Emphasis: one-quarter of our population of 328.2 million.  Do the math.  It must be one of America’s dirty little secrets because we hardly ever hear about this.  If government policy has anything to do with the quality of life in the United States, then someone should be asking our elected officials very pointed questions.  Not that we would ever get any answers, of course.

Politicians are never held accountable for the things they “do to us.”  No government official went to jail for testing nuclear weapons in New Mexico, which caused massive spikes in radiation cancers all across the United States.  No one went to prison for performing human experiments on black men, injecting them with socially transferrable viruses. No one is likely to go to jail to fund COVID-19 viruses in China.

Speaking of government policy, Boston University tells us that since 11 September 2001, 7,057 active duty service men and women lost their lives in the Middle Eastern wars.  Since then, 30,177 active duty and veteran service men and women have taken their own lives.

There may have been undiagnosed mental illnesses within this exceedingly large group of people, but much of it had to do with extended exposure to combat, traumatic brain injuries (TBI) from IED explosions, and the complete indifference of the civilian public to the reality of post-traumatic (war-related) stress.

The average suicide rate for post 9/11 veterans between 18-34 is 32.3 per 100,000 service men and women.  In 2018, that number increased to 45.9%.  In other words, nearly three times the suicide rate of the general population.

Suicide is one of the costs of war that no one wants to address or acknowledge.  And, or so it appears, suicide is a cost of war no one in the government thinks is worthy of acting on.  We could start, I suppose, by demanding that the government refrain from involving us in 20-year-long conflicts that the US government has no intention of winning.

But no … that’s too hard.  Besides, all of us know that government doesn’t care what we (the people) think. This is because we (the people) never hold politicians accountable for the horrific circumstances they’ve created for our society.

The preceding opinion probably makes me a racist, but if either study is valid, then all I can say is that American society is very, very sick.

Mustang also blogs at Fix Bayonets and Thoughts From Afar

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