Canada’s taxpayer-funded socialized health system has long waiting lists for cancer treatments, leaving many desperately seeking alternatives.
However, government-funded doctors are now urging patients to avoid the long wait for cancer treatment by signing up for Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program instead.
A common theme emerging from Canada is the theory that sick and impoverished citizens should choose euthanasia to relieve the burden on the system for the “common good.”
As Slay News has previously reported, Canada has some of the most permissive euthanasia laws in the world.
Canada’s euthanasia laws allow almost anyone who can claim some form of hardship or disability to receive physician-assisted suicide, regardless of how minor those disabilities might be.
In a recently reported horror story from The Associated Press, Alan Nichols, 61, was successfully killed after a quick one-month waiting period as he was suffering from hearing loss.
Aside from bouts of depression over his hearing, Nichols was otherwise healthy.
However, his brother claimed doctors railroaded Nichols into killing himself.
Nichols’ family said that hospital staff helped him request euthanasia and pushed him to do it, a story that has been repeated many times by other disabled or sick Canadians.
Unfortunately, many Canadians have reported being railroaded into MAiD.
As Slay News previously reported, a Canadian man recently spoke out saying he felt “completely traumatized” and violated due to being pressured into signing up for euthanasia “multiple times.”
He said doctors had little interest in providing him with the proper care he needed while in the hospital.
Instead, the doctors were focusing on convincing the patient to kill himself.
First introduced in 2016, MAiD was initially only available to those who were terminally ill.
However, in 2021, the Trudeau government expanded the deadly practice to be available to those who were not a risk of death, but who suffered from chronic illness.
While MAiD does not yet apply to the mentally ill, this is not due to a lack of trying on behalf of Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government.
The government decided to delay the expansion of euthanasia to those suffering solely from such illnesses until 2027 following backlash from Canadians and prominent doctors.
Several doctors pushed back and said they would refuse to euthanize mentally ill citizens, as Slay News reported at the time.
In Tuesday’s episode of the Epoch Times’ American Though Leaders, Jan Jekielek sat down with Wesley J. Smith.
Smith is a lawyer, public speaker, award-winning author, and the chair of the Discovery Institute Centre on Human Exceptionalism.
During the interview, they dived into his work on bioethics and euthanasia.
Smith revealed that patients suffering from treatable cancers are choosing euthanasia because they get appointments to see oncologists regarding treatments.
“We’re seeing in Canada also the beginning of a situation where patients who have a tough time getting an oncologist because of such a long waiting list, ask to be killed because they can’t get quality medical care,” Smith said.
“Assisted suicide and euthanasia is a symptom, not a cause, and there’s a deep nihilism that seems to have infected society on many levels.
“When a country or a state legalizes assisted suicide or euthanasia, it can no longer call itself anti-suicide, because it specifically approves some suicides,” Smith said.
“It’s a very dangerous movement that is normalizing this kind of approach to dying as opposed to natural death.”
Below is a trailer for Epoch TV’s interview with Smith.
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You can watch the full interview on Epoch TV HERE.
The most recent reports show that MAiD is the sixth highest cause of death in Canada.
However, it was not listed as such in Statistics Canada’s top 10 leading causes of death from 2019 to 2022.
When asked why MAiD was left off the list, the agency explained that it records the illnesses that led Canadians to choose to end their lives via euthanasia, not the actual cause of death, as the primary cause of death.
According to Health Canada, in 2022, 13,241 Canadians died by MAiD lethal injections.
This accounts for 4.1 percent of all deaths in the country for that year.
The figure marks a 31.2 percent increase from 2021.
While the numbers for 2023 have yet to be released, all indications point to a situation even more grim than 2022.
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