This writer has written about Canada's MAID program for a little while, each time warning people that this program would be abused by the government, applied as a cost-saving measure against the poor, the elderly, and the infirm. As the numbers of MAID 'patients' (victims would be a better word) rise, at least one Canadian PM praises it as 'enhanced freedom'. Even Orwell shudders.
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Jacobin Magazine -- not exactly a bastion of right-wing thought -- has noticed now, too.
Canada boasts one of the world’s highest assisted-death rates, supposedly enabling the terminally ill to die with dignity. But this suicide program increasingly resembles a dystopian replacement for care services, exchanging social welfare for euthanasia. https://t.co/vApQN1V729
— Jacobin (@jacobin) May 2, 2024
For want of a mattress, a man is dead. That’s the story, in sum, of a quadriplegic man who chose to end his life in January through medically assisted death. Normand Meunier’s story, as reported by the CBC, began with a visit to a Quebec hospital due to a respiratory virus. Meunier subsequently developed a painful bedsore after being left without access to a mattress to accommodate his needs. Thereafter, he applied to Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program.
As Rachel Watts writes in her report, Meunier spent ninety-five hours on a stretcher in the emergency room — just hours short of four days. The bedsore he developed “eventually worsened to the point where bone and muscle were exposed and visible — making his recovery and prognosis bleak.” The man who “didn’t want to be a burden” chose to die at home. An internal investigation into the matter is underway.
An absolute travesty.
But completely expected.
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The state is not benevolent. The state does not care about you. And if the state -- in its calculus -- decides you cost more than you're worth, they'll end your life and save themselves the expense of caring for you.
World you built
— Good Tweetman (@Goodtweet_man) May 3, 2024
Yes it is.
Why are you shocked? It’s your ideology doing it
— Author John A. Douglas (@BlkCrownAuthor) May 3, 2024
Because, just maybe, they realized this will impact them and their loved ones.
“Disability and other advocates have been warning us for years that MAiD puts people at risk. They warned that the risk of people choosing death — because it’s easier than fighting to survive in a system that impoverishes people, and disproportionately does so to those who are…
— Brian Doherty (@BDOH) May 3, 2024
Many were warning them, for a long time, and were ignored or dismissed or criticized.
There was no other possible way for this to go.
— Polly Karr (@karr_pe) May 3, 2024
Nope. No other way.
This was inevitable.
Always was going to be the State trying to save money
— Matt Zelinsky (@MattZelinsky) May 3, 2024
Always.
oh my gosh, Who could have ever seen this coming?!
— Owl Girl (@omgitsOwlGirl) May 3, 2024
EVERYONE.
I don’t think I can ever adequately express how much I despise Communists. https://t.co/oHjS2yaG0u pic.twitter.com/f52QvnyVMj
— Dimitri Kolokotronis (@JimmyLevendia) May 3, 2024
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You can't despise them enough.
The end result of Liberalism is the death of the human race. https://t.co/vDzzTLiDX4
— Fritz✠Imperial🇻🇦🐺 (@Fritz_Imperial) May 3, 2024
Leftism is self-loathing and destructive.
Somehow, it's still capitalism's fault.
We all made fun of Sarah Palin w/her "death panels", but it's looking more and more like it was a case of a broken clock being right twice a day. https://t.co/CL5Ah4f0Xq pic.twitter.com/yjpbQdm2oU
— Aragorn Aragon (@RXCafeTX) May 3, 2024
Of course. It's always capitalism's fault.
https://t.co/4GepWIidsF pic.twitter.com/jpk30xniUh
— Ed. Condon (@canonlawyered) May 2, 2024
The perfect meme.
"Boasts"
It's euthanasia, because "free healthcare" isn't free. Canadians are literally paying for their socialized medicine with their lives. https://t.co/fHuOoWbgDx
— Wedge Antilles' mech droid (@R2A3hw) May 4, 2024
Yes, they are.
And we all saw this coming.
