'The solution is assisted life': Offered death, terminally ill Ont[ario] man files lawsuit [ed]

CTV News ^ | March 15, 2018 | Staff

[C19fan]

A landmark lawsuit has been filed by an Ontario man suffering from an incurable neurological disease. He alleges that health officials will not provide him with an assisted home care team of his choosing, instead offering, among other things, medically assisted death. "My condition is grievous and irremediable,” 42-year-old Roger Foley said from his bed at the London Health Science Centre’s Victoria Hospital in a video that was recently posted online. “But the solution is assisted life with self-directed funding.”

[C19fan]

But but...I thought in socialized systems health care is a "right". The only thing the state is offering as a "right" is the right to commit suicide.

[Rapscallion]

I support medically assisted death but only when I decide that is my best option.

I resent government taking away my right to decide and my right to act with assistance.

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Medically assisted death" is always cheaper. Therefore when it is legally available, there is always going to pervasive, sometimes crudely brutal pressure to get people to "choose" it. And if it is re-invented as a "right," then even if you can't choose it, some humane government-employed ethicist will choose it for you. 'Cause it's your right, and the mere happenstance that you can't choose it only shows that you really really need it; so there there, dear, we'll proxy it for you, that's only fair.

If you get to the point that you want to ease right outta life, great, that's fine, but for God's sake do it illegally. Making the thing legal --- worse yet, a "right,"--- only puts another cost-cutting tool in the hands of the omnicompetent compassionate controllers.

[Manuel OKelley]

The issue I see here is he wants the government (taxpayers) to pay for it.

At a cost that is likely equivalent to the total production of at least a couple if not more working people.

Not advocating for government pushing euthanasia but all these people who think they have a right to unlimited amounts of healthcare at someone else’ expense are out of their minds.

[originalbuckeye]

Too bad all the ‘we have to have Socialized Medicine, it’s our RIGHT’ people will never see this story. It won’t see the light of day in our National Media. They all THINK that everyone will get all the care they need and it will be first class care. Bwahahahahaha..............Clueless Socialists!

[itsahoot]

I support medically assisted death but only when I decide that is my best option.

I resent government taking away my right to decide and my right to act with assistance.

Now you know, you can't have one without the other because the right to die with dignity was never about your right, it was always about the right of the state to kill you.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Well, at this point the taxpayers are in the position of choosing either continued care or murder.

That's where socialized medicine will put you.

Don't blame this man. I think if he had a real choice, he would choose not to be dependent on such an evil system.