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: Faster Pussycat! Die! Die!
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Increasingly in Canada, people are agreeing to euthanasia because dying they are vulnerable people driven to death by legally sanctioned killers.
“Assisted dying is used by patients in Canada because they are poor and lack housing, a major report has found.
“The first official report into assisted dying deaths in Ontario, which has been obtained by the Telegraph, found vulnerable people face ‘potential coercion’ or ‘undue influence’ to seek out the practice.
“Sixteen experts across medicine, nursing and law identified people whose lives may have been wrongly terminated at the hands of the state, where the action is called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD).
“It comes after Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP, introduced her private member’s Bill to legalise the practice for terminally ill patients on Wednesday, saying it ‘contains robust protections’.
“In one example identified in the report, a MAiD practitioner drove a 40-year-old addict to his death after his psychiatrist suggested assisted dying as an option.
“Using their own car to drive the patient to an external location to die by assisted dying ‘may have created pressure, and gave rise to a perception of hastening a person towards death’, the report found.
“On another occasion, a man in his forties who had been ‘involuntarily hospitalised’ on mental health grounds died by assisted dying after he became convinced he had been injured by the Covid-19 vaccination. A post-mortem later found ‘no pathological findings’.”
Oregon is killing so many people with lethal proscriptions, they can’t even keep track of them all!
“New data from Oregon’s public health authority shows that the number of prescriptions for lethal drugs under the state’s assisted suicide law increased by roughly 8% last year, with assisted suicide deaths accounting for nearly 1% of all deaths in Oregon in 2024.
“The data from the Oregon Health Authority, which analyzes the year 2024, shows the number of reported assisted suicide deaths decreased slightly — 376 in 2024 versus 386 in 2023. Since 1998, a total of 3,243 people have died under the state’s assisted suicide regime.
“However, nearly a third of all patients who were prescribed lethal drugs last year in Oregon are unaccounted for, as their ‘ingestion status’ is listed by the health authority as ‘unknown.’”
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is now being used as an excuse to kill any person whose death is not immanent.
“ALS is a catastrophic terminal disease that, within a few years of diagnosis (the physicist Stephen Hawking was an exception), eventually causes total paralysis. It is also a tragic condition that euthanasia/assisted suicide activists zealously wield to justify killing as an acceptable answer to suffering.
“Now, the understandable fear of ALS is being deployed by academic advocates as a means of breaking the (U.S.) requirement for a six-month terminal diagnosis and self-administration in assisted suicide.”
TTFN.
