Monday, August 15, 2022

Follow-Up: Euthanasia Is Now The Sixth-Leading Cause Of Death In Canada

Via the always interesting Possum Reviews:

As they say in Canuckistan, it's all about the loonies. 
 
Previously:
ICYMI: Canada Expanded The Criteria For Euthanasia To Include Those Suffering Soley From Mental Illness
Just like the Nazis.
And then it was a straight line from Aktion T4 to Aktion Reinhard.
From The CBC, March 11:....

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....That expanded access also applies to people too poor to live with dignity.

From the Speccie, Australia, April 30:

Why is Canada euthanising the poor?

There is an endlessly repeated witticism by the poet Anatole France that, ‘the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.’ What France certainly did not foresee is that an entire country—and an ostentatiously progressive one at that—has decided to take his sarcasm at face value and to its natural conclusion.

Since last year, Canadian law, in all its majesty, has allowed both the rich as well as the poor to kill themselves if they are too poor to continue living with dignity. In fact, the ever-generous Canadian state will even pay for their deaths. What it will not do is spend money to allow them to live instead of killing themselves....