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The Counsel of Trent

#925 - The Assisted Suicide Dystopia Is Here

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Trent reveals how assisted suicide advocates reach new lows in demanding state-sanctioned killing.

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0:00.0

Back in May the Dutch government helped a physically healthy 29 year old autistic woman kill herself.

0:09.0

Hello, my name is Soraya and I'm 28 years old. I live in the Netherlands and recently my euthanasia

0:16.7

requests for my mental suffering got approved.

0:19.8

Canada also has assisted suicide and it accounted in 2019 for one out of every 50 deaths.

0:26.4

But in 2022, that number doubled to one out of every 25 deaths, making assisted suicide one of Canada's leading causes of death,

0:35.6

surpassing car accidents, and even diseases like influenza or pneumonia.

0:39.9

And in today's episode, I'm going to show just how bad it's gotten, and what you should say to people who claim so-called death with dignity ought to be legal.

0:48.0

First, when people ask me about assisted suicide, I pose a question nobody who defends this practice can consistently

0:55.3

answer.

0:56.6

Where do you draw the line?

0:58.6

Normally when people are suicidal, we do everything we can to help them out of that decision.

1:04.0

In fact, these episodes of my podcast today will probably be downgraded in the search

1:09.0

results in algorithm because I use words like suicide or kill yourself.

1:15.0

When you search out words like suicide on Google,

1:18.0

you immediately get advertisements for help out of this decision.

1:22.0

We recognize that people who even look into this topic

1:24.9

ought to be helped out of this decision. And when someone is about to take his or

1:29.4

her own life, we will use physical force to stop the person from doing that as happened here in this

1:35.8

news clip.

1:36.7

The woman in her mid-20s suffering from depression intent on making a 150 foot jump.

1:43.0

What's your name?

1:45.0

It doesn't matter.

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