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: In America it’s “give me liberty or give me death”; in Canada it’s “give me a sensible culinary experience or give me death”.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Remember when euthanasia was sold as being for the terminally ill who were suffering in pain? Apparently not being able to cook for your family is considered suffering worthy of death.
“Top Canadian doctors are raising alarm bells over the country’s seemingly quick approval for assisted dying requests, after one elderly woman was accepted based on the fact that she lost the ability to cook meals for her family.
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“One such case saw a woman in her 70s struggling with losing her ability to cook for her family, something she prided herself on as the matriarch of her family.
“When she was approved for assisted dying, she told doctors that she felt she had lost her value to her family. “
Thankfully, she received legitimate counciling that convinced her that her life’s worth was more than the sum of the meals she can cook.
“Through counseling, she came to understand that her family valued who she was, not what she did for them. She decided not to go through with ending her life, at least for now.
“That Christmas, her family gathered and she sat proudly at the table while others did the cooking and serving.”
Not eating properly is just as death-worthy as not being able to cook, ‘twould seem.
“One psychiatrist has deemed eating disorders and depression to be worthy of “a grievous and irremediable medical condition” qualifying someone for MAiD.
“At a Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) in late March, Dr. Mona Gupta, a psychiatrist and professor at the University of Montreal, was asked by Conservative MP Andrew Lawton whether an eating disorder or depression would qualify.
“‘It depends on the circumstances of the person,’ Gupta stated at first.
“‘So it could?’ asked Lawton
“‘Potentially,’ responded Gupta.”
How magnanimous to not immediately expand death-worthiness to anyone with a mental illness… unless they are demented and didn’t make it clear they didn’t want to be snuffed out beforehand.
“[Justice Mnister Sean] Fraser also said the government will ‘grant access to medical assistance in dying to people who have provided consent at a time when they still have capacity but know that they have been diagnosed with an illness that will take that capacity from them subsequently.’
“This is sometimes referred to as ‘advance directive’ or ‘advance request’ in medical parlance. It often involves a competent person making a written request for MAID, with the intention that it would be honoured later, if and when they lose the capacity to make the decision for themselves: for example, in people suffering from worsening Alzheimer’s or dementia.”
TTFN.
