Posted on 12/09/2022 11:03:06 AM PST by DFG
A Canadian pensioner seeking euthanasia because he fears homelessness has received approval from a doctor despite admitting poverty is a major factor in the decision to end his own life.
Les Landry, 65, told assessors for the procedure he 'doesn't want to die' but has applied for medical assistance in dying (MAID) because he can't afford to live comfortably.
Astonishingly, a doctor has given one of the two signatures required for Landry to end his own life, despite knowing that financial hardship - not illness - is a leading reason for the profound decision.
Landry is now awaiting the decision of a second doctor who has assessed his eligibility. If that doctor rejects the application, Landry says he will simply 'shop' around for another who's prepared to sign off on his death - something that's allowed under Canada's assisted dying laws.
The shocking case lays bare the increasingly relaxed approach to euthanasia in Canada, where experts say 'choosing to die is more accessible than support for people with disabilities'.
Dr Naheed Dosani, a palliative care physician and assistant professor at the University of Toronto, said Canada has reached a point where people are choosing to die 'not because they want they want to, but because they don't have adequate access' to proper health and social services.
More than 10,000 Canadians were euthanized last year, a tenfold increase on 2016 when the practise was legalized. In March, the law will change to allow mental health patients with no physical ailments to seek MAID.
Canada's law allows a person with a 'grievous and irremediable medical condition' to seek euthanasia, even if their illness isn't terminal.
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I’m sure the elites of the world don’t care about this at all. In fact, I’m sure they’d be in favor of it.
We face a huge number of geriatric indigents and suicides. I’ve seen one I know of, 75, drove into a deep pond.
Does he need medical assistance in dying? There are no shortage of means to end his own life.
The purpose of socialism is communism.
This man needs a psychologist or pastor - not suicide.
The elite la which are mostly liberal radicals are happy about another “useless eater” volunteering to eliminate himself for the good of everyone else
He’d take a needle than do it one of many ways that might not work and leave him worse off.
I’m good with the doctor committing suicide.
I can definitely see it — if Social Security goes bankrupt, or other government programs “cannot be funded” due to our massive debt, then I think a huge number of people will have a “retirement plan” which is rather drastic.
Adding to.
The holy grail of medicine in the US appears to milk mailbox money and keep you alive and productive until they can turn you upside down and shake all the money from your pockets as they treat your terminal illness. All the while feigning poverty, underpayment and shortage while all major hospitals have constant building projects, doctors pile up more money than any human can ever spend rationally and drug companies peddle ever more expensive snake oils. It is all a monopoly on life and just about all the key players in it get sickeningly rich.
Such is US medicine
Who is going to nominate FJB and his son?
God have mercy. Horrible. Prayers up.
This is where the powers that be want us.
Can’t several band together and make a go of it? Kind of like a Golden Girls but broke?
WTF?! 10 thousand people in Canada were put to sleep last year??!!
No application required. Everybody’s time will come. The u.n. and who need to get on that STAT!
The state has no need for a 65 year old man so they might as well get rid of him.
Canada is how you say Mordor in modern English.
WTH? I thought Canada had some of if not the best social medicine in the world.
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