Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: March AND Die!
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Victoria, Australia, is generally known to be Left-of-Center in Australian politics; it is also embracing making it that much more easy for doctors to kill their patients.
“When assisted suicide is first proposed for legalization, we are assured by death activists that strict guidelines will protect against abuse. But they don’t mean it. Once the laws pass, the supposed protections — which are always flaccid to begin with — are soon redefined by activists and the media as ‘barriers,’ et voila, the laws are soon loosened. It’s all a con, but people seem to fall for it every time.
“This pattern can be seen vividly playing out in Victoria, Australia. The state was the first in that country to legalize assisted suicide, and now the government is making more people eligible for legally hastened death. From the premier’s announcement:
“‘The new legislation will remove unnecessary barriers to accessing VAD, improve clarity for practitioners, strengthen safety measures and make the system fairer and more compassionate.’
“See what I mean? ‘Strengthen safety,’ (!!!) and ‘fairer and more compassionate,’ really just means more people can become dead much sooner.”
The killing in Canada is unabated.
“As Canada approaches the ten-year mark of legalized doctor-assisted death, the number of annual deaths appears to be plateauing, according to the federal government’s latest report on medical assistance in dying (MAID).
“A total of 16,499 people died by MAID in Canada in 2024. However, the year-over-year annual growth rate in deaths has been shrinking, from 36.8 per cent between 2019 and 2020, to 6.9 per cent between 2023 and 2024, according to Health Canada’s sixth annual report on MAID.
“‘While the data suggests that the number of annual MAID provisions is beginning to stabilize, it will take several more years before long-term trends can be conclusively identified,” according to the report.’
“In all, MAID deaths accounted for 5.1 per cent of all deaths in Canada last year, a small — 0.4 per cent — increase from 2023.
“There have been 76,475 reported MAID deaths in Canada since the practice was allowed in 2016.
“According to the latest update, the vast majority (95.6 per cent) of people who died by MAID last year had a ‘reasonably foreseeable’ death, known as ‘Track 1’ deaths. They were older (78 on average) than MAID recipients who weren’t near death — so-called Track 2 cases — and more likely to have cancer.
“Those who received a doctor-assisted death whose natural deaths were not reasonably foreseeable were mostly women (56.7 per cent), slightly younger and had lived longer with a serious and incurable condition than Track 1 cases.
“Along with neurological conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease, diabetes, frailty, autoimmune conditions and chronic pain were conditions most often cited among people who weren’t close to dying.
“The latest data come amid concerns that some MAID deaths are being driven by loneliness, hopelessness and isolation, and that some doctors are taking an over broad interpretation of the law.”
France is joining the kill club.
“France’s parliament has voted in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying, paving the way for caregivers to help patients end their lives under what campaigners say would still be some of the strictest conditions in Europe.
“After a sometimes emotional session, deputies passed the first reading of the bill by a vote of 305 to 199. They also unanimously backed a less contentious law establishing a right to palliative care in specialist end-of-life institutions.
“Both votes are the start of a long parliamentary process that will require the bills to move on to the Senate – the upper house – and then back to the lower house – the National Assembly – for a second reading, meaning they are unlikely to become law before next year.”
TTFN.
