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December 13, 2020

Canada Up Against Court-Ordered Deadline to Expand Euthanasia

All eyes on Canada as Parliament faces court-ordered Dec. 18th deadline to expand euthanasia beyond imminent death
  • Liberal MP opposes current bill because it allows people with transient despair to choose euthanasia
  • Palliative care doctor:  “As doctors we should be instilling hope, supporting resilience and using our expertise to find creative solutions to address health and well-being. Instead, we would be required to suggest assisted suicide as an option if this bill becomes law.”

Austrian court tells legislature, ‘help us out here, we’re opening Pandora’s Box and it’s up to you to close it’ - court rules ‘right to self-determination’ includes the right to ask other people to help you off yourself, says it’s up to the legislature to prevent abuse.
  • It will take many cases trying many sets of circumstances before the dimensions of this become clear

Spain’s Justice Commission greenlights euthanasia bill, sending it to the Senate which is expected to approve it
  • Critics: government has a mandate to protect the life of its citizens, not help take it

Voluntary euthanasia bill was defeated in New South Wales (Australia) in 2017, but a new bill will be introduced again next year
  • Advocacy group has already started the drumbeat for the new bill, arguing palliative care is not enough. #TheLeftNeverQuits
  • Why don’t things ever move back in the other direction?  In part, because there’s no activism pushing for it.  Anti-euthanasia activists don’t go on offense, but merely try not to lose more ground.  Shame on us.

Loneliness is a driver of euthanasia requests in the Netherlands
  • ‘Unbearable suffering’ is not solely a question of physical health; a large component is fear of future decline, dependence, and isolation triggered by an event like a fall.
    • The emotional and social component seems addressable with, e.g., counseling, reassurance from family members, and volunteer programs like students making nursing home visits.  Encouraging the elderly to push the Easy Button for assisted suicide seems more designed to advance the political agenda of the Left than it is to address ‘unbearable suffering’. 
    • Euthanasia is not just a failure of the people around the patient.  It’s a failure and lack of imagination on the part of patients themselves to find a reason to get up in the morning.  However, the choice is being conditioned by the Left’s withering assault on individualism.  By pushing groupthink, collectivism, and identity politics, the Left weakens the individual’s sense of self-worth - ‘If I’m just an ant in somebody else’s ant colony, then what’s the point of going on living?’  Don’t you see how insidious the Left is?  They claim to be ‘life-affirming’.  They are anything but.  They are deliberately weakening your sense of self so you become pliable and more easily controllable. 
    • Speaking of the Left wanting you pliable and more easily controllable, the total government of the National Socialists (Nazis) took control and mandated you to die when its ‘experts’ said your time was up.   It’s no accident the Nazis considered individuals important only to the extent they embodied the potential of the race and the Thousand-Year Reich.  The resemblance to today’s Left is not purely coincidental.  If you’re going to reach Utopia and create Heaven on Earth, you gotta break a few eggs, right?


December 6, 2020

Government-Assisted Death Making Steady Advances

Tasmania’s lower house of parliament approves assisted suicide bill; next action March 2021
  • Bill supposedly limited to the terminally ill, but we know how that goes

Belgium intentionally kept half of nursing home residents with COVID out of the hospital so they would die
  • What a wretched place.  Glad I don’t live there. Belgium is in the grip of the nihilistic suicidal European Left.

Speaking of the nihilistic suicidal European Left, 70 percent of German and Swiss viewers vote for euthanasia for healthy person depicted in TV show who ‘lost the will to live’
  • You want to kill yourself, fine.  Don’t drag me into it with your laws.  It’s not ‘physician-assisted suicide’, it’s ‘government-assisted suicide’. 

“Canada's Justice Minister wants to expand euthanasia to people with mental illness alone”
  • Canada’s 2016 assisted death law did not prevent euthanasia for mental illness alone

Healthy Canadian nursing home resident chooses assisted death to avoid another COVID lockdown
  • This would not have been possible in the UK:
    "Our current laws here in the UK, which ban both assisted suicide and euthanasia, exist to protect those who are sick, elderly, depressed or disabled from feeling obliged to end their lives - People like Nancy Russell who clearly felt alone, depressed and a burden, unable to cope with the isolation and restrictions of another Covid lockdown.”
    "The current laws protect those who have no voice against exploitation and coercion and those who care for them who might come under pressure to save money on care costs. They do not need changing."

Suicide rates in jurisdictions with assisted death laws goes UP, not down as euthanistas argue

Group of 1,000 Canadian doctors call C-7 assisted dying bill “a reckless piece of legislation without adequate safeguards for the vulnerable”
  • Provision in the bill requiring doctors to presented assisted death as an option “gives that impression to the patient that they may be better off dead, and that’s not the message we want to convey to our patients. It will create seeds of doubt in our patients’ minds, it will make them second guess and question whether the medical system has their care in mind.”

Man in his eighties who ‘didn’t want to be a burden’ surprised to learn his daughter actually wanted to care for him

‘Mercy’ killer expresses regret - ‘what I did was wrong and hurt my family’

Watch webinars: Sign and share the Petition opposing child euthanasia in the Netherlands


November 22, 2020

Netherlands Changes Euthanasia Rules to Make Sure You Don’t Put Up a Fight

This is getting really sick: the Netherlands changes its rules to allow doctors to surreptitiously sedate dementia patients who consented once upon a time, but might become agitated during euthanasia
  • You mean like they just might no longer consent?  Not many lines left to cross, folks.  Flip forward a few years: The government knows best and when you become a problem, it will make sure you are removed.   That goes double for political prisoners, free thinkers, and EVERYBODY if depopulationists ever get ahold of public policy.   Think I’m alarmist?  Think how many lines have already been crossed - the shift of the rationale for euthanasia from ‘intractable pain’ to ‘completed lives’, for example - and how short a jump it is from government-assisted suicide to government-directed death.  #TheLeftNeverQuits

Parliamentary committee fast-tracks bill C-7 to expand euthanasia in Canada; court deadline for action is December 18th
  • Canada’s ruling party rushing pell-mell to expand eligibility without performing the required 5-year review of how the 2016 law is working in practice

Euthanasia deaths in Belgium increase 267 percent in 9 years

More than 50 palliative care docs in the UK sign letter against assisted suicide; most doctors won’t participate in it and ‘safeguards’ are often breached, like that pesky little requirement patients actually give consent
  • The letter points out ‘intractable pain’ is a thing of the past given modern pain medicine; pain is no longer a justification for assisted suicide laws

Pastor: assisted suicide threatens the most vulnerable in society -“ Assisted suicide cannot be regulated, ripe for abuse and coercion”

Assisted suicide is dangerous - it demoralizes people who want to have hope and fight their disease. #PushTheEasyButton


November 1, 2020

New Zealand Votes for Euthanasia, Elder Abuse Coming

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New Zealand voted to legalize euthanasia despite concerns the elderly will be pressured to die 
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/asia/new-zealand-euthanasia-intl-hnk/index.html
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https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/10/confused-kiwis-line-up-to-vote-on.html

Justice Amy Coney Barrett likely to maintain Supreme Court’s resistance to declaring a constitutional ‘right to die’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/judge-amy-coney-barrett-and-the-future-of-physician-assisted-suicide/2020/10/19/9a1516ce-1230-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html

Assisted dying cases in Canadian prisons riddled with errors, omissions, and misapplied law; official calls for a moratorium
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/10/canadas-federal-correctional.html
  • Choosing assisted dying because every other option like compassionate release is foreclosed can hardly be called ‘personal autonomy’

“There have been approximately 19,000 euthanasia deaths in Canada”
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/10/there-have-been-approximately-19000.html

The plan is working - Canada is saving millions of dollars on national healthcare by legalizing euthanasia.  And you thought euthanasia was about ‘personal autonomy’ - hah!
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/10/canada-health-care-savings-attributed.html

Concerns expressed about meteoric rise of euthanasia deaths in Belgium; review commission not operating transparently and could get overwhelmed, threshold for criminal referrals set too high, etc.
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/10/report-concerns-about-euthanasia-in.html

Australian experts warn of deceit in fast-tracking assisted dying legislation in Queensland; euthanistas throw terms like ‘dignity’ and ‘freedom’ thrown around in nontransparent ways and say they support palliative care when their only true aim is using the government to kill people
https://catholicleader.com.au/news/expert-panel-tackle-philosophical-issues-of-voluntary-assisted-dying

Old man’s death by starvation and dehydration raises troubling questions - Do you have a right to make others complicit in your suicide?  If you sedate people who choose starvation/dehydration, how can they communicate they’ve changed their minds?  Do we really want to go down the ‘completed lives’ road and offer government-assisted suicide to people who are just ‘tired of living’?
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/10/euthanasia-by-dehydration-and-expanded.html

So many to kill, so little time.  Children under 12, people of any age who are tired of living, people whose natural deaths are not reasonably foreseeable - did we leave anyone out?  If we did, the Left will get around to them eventually. #DeathCulture #CivilizationalSuicide
https://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2020/10/new-euthanasia-laws-show-there-will.html
  • Enemies of the West are chortling with glee at these developments.  Euthanasia is a national security issue unless, of course, you’re a nihilist to whom NOTHING matters, not even what kind of life your children and grandchildren will have.  If we’re going to commit suicide as a civilization, shouldn’t we at least have a discussion about it instead of letting the Left push us over a cliff through their incrementalism without us realizing it?