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Breakpoint

A Double Victim of Canada's Bad Ideas

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

The growing option to die by medical assistance is leaving patients already sick with disease or mental disorders with no hope.

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0:00.0

With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with a point.

0:04.5

A recent column with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation shared the story of John Sculli.

0:08.6

He suffers with PTSD from years as a war correspondent.

0:11.8

Sculli's now afraid that restrictive state regulations won't allow him to, quote,

0:15.7

get the help he needs.

0:17.0

For Sculli, that's the option to die.

0:19.5

Now from his comments, you think he was being denied some miracle drug, but he's being denied access to Canada's ever expanding medical assistance and dying program.

0:27.0

As he put it, Scully longs for someone, quote,

0:30.0

to tell me that there's hope around the corner for me.

0:32.0

I've looked around the corner, there's nothing there.

0:34.4

There's no hope.

0:35.4

So somehow in his worldview that's been shaped by his nation's embrace of death,

0:39.7

he's completely inverted the moral status of life and death and

0:43.2

redefined hope he's a victim twice over first of his mental

0:46.7

suffering and then of his culture's bad ideas please pray for him that his heart

0:51.6

and his mind would be turned back to life,

0:54.0

and especially to the author of life.

0:56.4

For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street.

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