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: The quest for more death.
First, a little mood music:
The idea that a person can choose to “die with dignity” kinda presumes that they have the mental capacity and ability to choose… unless they are in Canada.
“A bill just passed the House of Commons that — barring shockingly unforeseen resistance in the Senate, which already voted to loosen the rules — will radically expand eligibility for euthanasia in Canada, including the following provisions:
Reasonably foreseeable death will no longer be required. That opens the door to euthanizing people with disabilities, patients diagnosed with dementia but still competent, as well as the mentally ill.
After a further time for studying the issue of creating protective guidelines (!!), people whose sole medical problem is mental illness will explicitly qualify for euthanasia.
There will be no waiting period required between request for death and termination for people whose deaths are reasonably foreseeable — a very lax term. This means a patient with, say, two years of life expectancy could theoretically be killed immediately upon request.
“The expansion will eventually continue to allowing people diagnosed with dementia to order themselves killed in an advance directive when they become mentally incompetent and to pediatric euthanasia of ‘mature minors’ — both among the subjects likely to be ‘studied’ by a committee of ‘experts’ over the next two years, meaning they are coming next.”
