Have You Considered Dying?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
According to an article in Vancouver's Globe and Mail, after years of struggle and a recent traumatic event, Kathrin Mentler sought medical care at a local hospital for her suicidal ideation. Like America, Canada has spent millions on public service campaigns encouraging those contemplating suicide to seek professional help.
Katherine, however, was not offered help. Instead, she was offered death. The hospital staff told Katherine that it would take a long time to see a psychiatrist and suggested she consider Canada's Medical Aid in Dying program instead.
A story like this might be funny if the consequences weren't so severe, but they are. In this brave new world, killing is called "medical aid," harm passes for help, and healthcare professionals recommend suicide to deal with suicidal ideation. The so-called "right to die" becomes an "option to die," then an "expectation to die," and eventually the "duty to die."
And people like Kathrin Mentler are in grave danger exactly where they should be able to find help.
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| 0:00.0 | With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point. |
| 0:04.5 | According to an article in Vancouver's Globe and Mail, after years of struggle in a recent |
| 0:08.6 | traumatic event, Catherine Mettler sought medical care to look a hospital for her suicidal |
| 0:13.0 | ideation. |
| 0:14.0 | Like America, Canada has spent millions on public service campaigns, encouraging those contemplating |
| 0:18.6 | suicide to seek professional help. |
| 0:20.8 | Catherine, however, was not offered help. |
| 0:22.8 | She was offered death. |
| 0:24.0 | The hospital staff told Catherine it would take a long time to see a psychiatrist, and |
| 0:27.5 | instead suggested that she considered Canada's medical aid and dying program. |
| 0:31.8 | Story like this would be funny if the consequences weren't so drastic, but they are, and this |
| 0:36.0 | brave new world killing has become medical aid. |
| 0:39.2 | Harm passes for help, and health care providers recommend suicide to deal with suicidal ideation. |
| 0:44.2 | The so-called right to die becomes an option to die than an expectation to die, eventually |
| 0:48.6 | the duty to die. |
| 0:49.8 | People like Catherine Mettler are in grave danger, exactly in the places they should be able |
| 0:54.0 | to find help. |
| 0:55.0 | For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street. |
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