Robin Gauthier

🚨 CANADA’S GOVERNMENT EUTHANASIA SYSTEM NOW KILLS PEOPLE THE SAME DAY THEY APPLY ➡️ Canada sold MAID as a compassionate last resort. Instead, it’s becoming a government-run system where death can be approved in hours, and critics say it risks turning suicide into a healthcare “service.” ➡️ Canada’s “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID) program now accounts for about 1 in every 20 deaths nationwide. ➡️ Investigations found patients approved and killed the SAME DAY they requested euthanasia in some cases. ➡️ In Ontario, dozens of people died the day they applied, and many more the next day after submitting paperwork. ➡️ Canada has recorded over 76,000 assisted suicide deaths since legalization in 2016, with the number rapidly rising each year. ➡️ Critics warn the system is becoming a fast-track bureaucratic process, where doctors, forms, and referrals make “hastening death” easier than solving the underlying suffering. ➡️ The law was expanded in 2021 to allow people whose death isn’t even foreseeable, meaning patients don’t have to be terminally ill. ➡️ Some high profile cases involve people with disabilities, chronic illness, or depression, raising concerns about pressure on vulnerable patients.

All of the arguments for euthanasia fail. Even if I agreed that people have some kind of moral right to kill themselves (which I don’t), euthanasia wouldn’t be needed to exercise that “right.” You can already kill yourself. The idea that people need some kind of state sponsored system just to commit suicide is totally incoherent, even on its own terms. And those term are totally deranged because in truth, again, there is no moral right to suicide. But that’s almost a separate question, or at least a question further downstream. When it comes to euthanasia, the first and most immediate question is not whether people have the right to kill themselves, but whether the STATE and the MEDICAL INDUSTRY have the right to kill people. Should doctors be in the business of deliberately killing human beings? Should we have a bureaucracy for suicide? These are the real questions. And even if you (wrongly) think that humans have a moral right to murder themselves, you should still be able to see why doctors and bureaucrats ought to have no role in it.

Was told by a reviewer to not use genocide to describe what happened to Natives bc it is a charged word. Listen, my entire life is “charged” because of genocide. I use that word intentionally! Another reviewer said tribal identities are not political identities. I’m tired.