Posted on 05/14/2024 4:33:49 PM PDT by george76
A disabled Canadian man is now celebrating his “deathaversary” after escaping being euthanized by his government over his crushing debts.
Amir Farsoud was due to be euthanized by the Canadian government’s “assisted suicide” program because he was struggling to pay off his financial debts.
Farsoud said he was booked into to be killed under Canada’s “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID) law after being faced with the grim choice of death or homelessness.
However, just before he was scheduled to be euthanized, people raised enough money to improve his financial situation and he narrowly avoided death.
A year and a half later, Farsoud is now raising the alarm about the MAID program.
He warns that he was railroaded into “assisted suicide” by government doctors because of his dire housing situation.
Farsoud told his story during an interview for a new BBC documentary called “Better Off Dead?”
In the film, Farsoud told actress and disability activist Liz Carr that he’s “thinking of having friends over and raising a glass” to celebrate being alive.
If it wasn’t for his story going viral and inspiring people to donate, he revealed, he would have died in November 2022.
For the last almost eight years I’ve had the misfortune of being on the Ontario disability support program, which gives a maximum of just over $1,300 to a single adult monthly,” he recounted.
“As a frame of reference, the average one-bedroom apartment in this province costs almost twice what a person on disability makes.”
The 55-year-old was pushed into applying for MAID after the rooming house where he lives was put on the market.
“Literally after like four months of looking there was no place – there did not exist a place – that I could afford to live in,” he explained.
“At which point I decided – OK, I’m not going to be homeless.
“I’d been homeless before.”
Farsoud revealed that the winters there are “harsh” if you’re sleeping rough.
“Six, seven months of the year, having subzero temperatures 24 hours a day seven days a week,” he said.
“There’s people that try to keep warm with makeshift fires and then end up burning to death.
“There’s people that freeze to death.
“No matter what I knew that homelessness was off the table.”
Farsoud admitted he was all out of options, pending “miraculously finding a spot” to live.
He said the only option left was to end his own life via the Canadian government’s assisted death program.
Farsoud revealed that he would easily qualify for the program due to being classed as disabled.
However, he told Carr that he made it clear to medical professionals that he was only agreeing to move forward with “assisted suicide” due to his housing situation.
“I did tell my doctor right off the bat that while I qualify for medical reasons, the reason I’m asking is my socio-economic position at the moment,” he added.
The doctor booked Farsoud for euthanasia through MAID on the grounds of “unbearable suffering.”
From there, after a 90-day assessment and waiting period, he could be euthanized.
In contrast, waiting lists for social housing in Ontario can be over a decade.
“I was basically just waiting for the 90 days to be up,” he revealed.
“I was marking time.”
Farsoud felt like “the condemned guy who was waiting for his hour” when he got a call from a Toronto reporter who reached out for an interview.
But his story made headlines in Canada.
A GoFundMe page was then set up in his name by a stranger and ended up raising him over $60,000.
The funding was enough to get him new housing and enabled him to cancel his euthanasia.
I don’t want to die but I don’t want to be homeless more than I don’t want to die,” he told City News.
“It’s not my first choice.”
With his chronic back pain – which leaves him debilitated – he said he would likely die on the streets anyway.
He said doctors had led him to believe that euthanasia was his only option.
“I know, in my present health condition, I wouldn’t survive it anyway,” he told the outlet.
“It wouldn’t be at all dignified waiting, so if that becomes my two options, it’s pretty much a no-brainer.”
I think this is worse than a Darkness at Noon scenario. This has nothing to do with a sense of punishing those opposed to the Party. This is about killing a man because the state believes it’s better for them AND for him. The guy pulling the trigger on the TT33 likely felt himself a hero of the Soviet Union for dispatching an enemy but the guy pushing the plunger on the hypo sees himself a hero for helping a fellow citizen end his troubles. EVIL!
Not just Canada either.
Netherlands is euthanizing 27-year old women for depression.
unless we can get some dramatic turnaround, this is our future...except it won’t be asking us, it will be telling us were too sick, too old, too poor, or too disabled....
It’s good he cancelled early enough. If you don’t cancel within 24 hours, you then have no choice, kind of like hotel reservations.
They’ll come get you, waiving your signed papers...
We’re not quite there yet, but it’s coming...
Satan is in the process of taking over all the governments of this world.
Sounds like the old movie, “Soylent Green.”
At this pint, that appears to be the only solution.
I see that coming as well.
Which makes it all the more critical that people make their peace with their Maker.
Ve must get rid of ze uselezz eaterezzz.
Welcome to Nazism II. It doesn’t matter what you believe, the Elite wants you and me, dead. It really is that simple.
Stalin starved 4 million Ukrainians. Pure evil!
[[This is about killing a man because the state believes it’s better for them AND for him.]]
Exactly- The Canadian gov saying to poor people- “Can’t pay up? Well sucks to be you- see you in the courtyard at 6 am prompt then- any last requests?”
He sure is- was just thinking that myself-
also thinking how long before that becomes policy here? We never woudl have thought men could pretend to be women and be allowed to shower with little girls- yet here we are in America allowing it because no one will stand up to the mentally ill and tell them “NO- Knock it off- you aren’t a woman, and if you continue to say you are and demand to be allowed in bathrooms with women and girls, which is illegal For obvious reasons — it’s off for mental evaluation and treatment for you” to the sick individuals who stomp their feet to get their way
This is such a disgrace. Hey, Canada, build some housing for your poor. It’s NOT OK to KILL THEM.
As much as I’d like to blame despicable Trudeau, he’s not a dictator.
Now, with $60 thou Canadian, he should fly to Florida, cash his money into U.S. money, go to Ft. Myers or somewhere and go homeless there. They won’t deport him what with all the illegals already and he can die warm.
From Debtor’s Prison to Debtor’s Poison.
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When governments actively engage in ending lives of their own citizens...
To bad his debt wasn’t from a college loan.
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