Legislation Proposed in Canada for Suicide on Demand Assisted Suicide
More proof--as if it were really needed--that the assisted suicide movement believes in death on demand for any non transitory physical or mental condition perceived by the suicidal person as causing unbearable suffering. From the bill (C-384):(7)
Despite anything in this section, a medical practitioner does not commit homicide within the meaning of this Act by reason only that he or she aids a person to die with dignity, if (a) the person (i) is at least eighteen years of age, (ii) either
(A) continues, after trying or expressly refusing the appropriate treatments available, to experience severe physical or mental pain without any prospect of relief, or
(B) suffers from a terminal illness.
Note that the patient does not have to be physically ill--mental pain will do. Note also that even if the patient could have suffering reduced through proper treatment or care, he or she is still eligible to be aided in suicide by choosing death over treatment. Finally, there is no definition for what is meant by "death with dignity" or "aid in suicide," and hence, I believe that this bill could be interpreted to authorize doctors to administer the death causing agent.
Repeat after me: Assisted suicide is not about terminal illness. Assisted suicide is not about terminal illness. Assisted suicide is not about terminal illness.
Labels: Assisted Suicide. Suicide on Demand. Canada. C. 384.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 2:24 PM
2 Comments
2 Comments:
I did say some great things about our health care here in Canada but I refuse to get drawn into a debate about the things that I detest in our country.
If you don't mind, I'll just wait until The Good Lord hands me "IT" on a silver platter.
I hear ya! So that will be your next time around, right Victor or are your spiritual DNA CELLS all working on "IT" as we speak?
Not too loud Wesley cause I've got a good Senior doctor now and I don't want to spoil it for me, myself and I! :)
Peace
The people who want their limbs cut off say they have a neurological disorder and that their brains look different according to some study or other (which of course rests on horrible animal suffering in laboratories). What about those who want, favor, and promote assisted suicide?
Personally I don't think we even need to delve into it that deep. It doesn't take a brain scan to identify a creep, a coward, a criminal, etc. But now that we've got the technology, the creeps want to use it AGAINST THE HEALTHY. So a lot of good it did to torture those monkeys and cats and the rest of them, didn't it.
I'll take horse sense over "human exceptionalism" any day. Let humans prove their worth before they start calling themselves "exceptional." And some of that needs to involve policing themselve in ways which "human exceptionalism" would find repugnant.
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