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Breakpoint

In Canada, 'Right' to Die Becomes Recommendation to Die

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Last year, the Canadian government sanctioned the killing of 13,241 people by the euphemistically named Medical Assistance in Dying. MAiD accounted for 4.1% of all deaths in Canada in 2022 and is the fifth leading cause of death in that country. 

The slide down this slippery slope began by first legalizing doctor-assisted suicide for people facing "imminent death" and then expanding it step by step until it was available to virtually anyone who asks for it. 

In fact, now Canadians don't even need to ask. Doctors and nurse practitioners there have been told they have a professional obligation to bring up the option of MAiD to any patients considered "eligible." That kind of suggestion can sound an awful lot like a recommendation to someone struggling with whether or not to live. 

These numbers are just going up, and they will until enough Canadians refuse to participate in Canada's culture of death. 

For more resources to live like a Christian in this cultural moment, visit Colsoncenter.org

 

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0:00.0

With the one minute look at culture from a Christian worldview I'm John Stone Street with the point.

0:04.4

Last year the Canadian government sanctioned the killing of 13,241 people

0:09.2

by the euphemistically named medical assistance and dying. Made accounted for 4.1% of all deaths in Canada in

0:15.6

in 2022 and is now the fifth leading cause of death in that country.

0:19.2

To slide down this slippery slope began by first legalizing doctor-assisted suicide for people who faced quote-unquote

0:25.3

imminent death and then expanding it step by step until it's now basically available to virtually

0:30.4

anyone who asks. In fact, now Canadians won't even have to ask.

0:34.1

Doctors and nurse practitioners there have now been told

0:36.6

they have a professional obligation

0:38.5

to bring up the option of made

0:40.2

to patients considered eligible.

0:42.0

That kind of suggestion can sound an awful lot like a recommendation

0:45.0

to someone struggling with whether or not to live.

0:48.0

These numbers will just keep going up until enough Canadians

0:51.0

refuse to participate in Canada's culture of death.

0:54.0

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

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