Medical Assitance In Dying Is A Difficult Subject No Matter Your Viewpoint
The Michael Berry Show
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🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry Show. Jack Kuvorkin. When I mentioned that name, every single one of you probably knows who he is, and you may have a thought or two about him. |
| 0:17.0 | Either you think to yourself, he was a monster, Dr. Death. |
| 0:23.0 | He was an absolute monster. He was a horrible person. He went to prison and he should have, and he should have stayed there because it is God's role to determine who lives and dies and not. |
| 0:35.0 | And lastly, certainly a doctor who takes an oath to heal. And some of you, I know because we've talked about this on the air, have the opinion, hey, look, this isn't ugly underbelly of life and he was giving people some dignity. |
| 0:48.0 | And you're free to have your own choice. That's enough for me to, but that discussion, it's a tough discussion. |
| 0:56.0 | Living and dying, birth and death are parts of the life cycle. It's a, it's a, it's a heady subject. It's, and sometimes these are very, very difficult things to talk about. And that's why we have to do it. |
| 1:11.0 | That's why we have to do it. And guess what? We don't all have to agree. Part of that conversation, and we'll have it now, is added by a man named Daniel Cuman. |
| 1:23.0 | And he's made a film, which is free for you to watch it. UnveilTV.com. It's about medical assistance in dying, which is where he gets the term made, M-A-I-D medical assistance in dying. |
| 1:37.0 | And it's focused on Canada where this issue is raging right now. In 2016, the Parliament of Canada passed federal legislation that allows eligible Canadian adults to request medical assistance in dying. |
| 1:53.0 | Here's a trailer for the film. |
| 1:55.0 | So some cases that have been approved for medical assistance in dying have been things like type 1 diabetes. Hearing loss, blindness, mild strokes. |
| 2:07.0 | Many of these things were people actually with, uh, are not a regular medical care, would have thrived. |
| 2:13.0 | The United Nations, three special record tours broke to the government of Canada, saying we have serious concerns about this legislation. And we still passed it. |
| 2:22.0 | Nothing surprises me anymore. It makes me sad, but I'm no longer surprised and I'm no longer shocked. |
| 2:36.0 | Whatever you may think of someone in the last few days of their life, saying I can't suffer like this anymore, we're talking about medical assistance for, here was the headline. |
| 2:48.0 | One third of Canadians fine with prescribing assisted suicide for homelessness. That's not a terminal illness. |
| 2:58.0 | Just so you know, 11 U.S. states now have a medical assistance in dying laws, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont, California, Colorado, Washington, DC, Hawaii, New Jersey, Maine, and New Mexico and possibly Illinois. |
| 3:18.0 | The makers of this film asked a question is America headed for the same culture of death that true those government is pushing in Canada. And again, the film is called medical assistance in dying made in Canada. |
| 3:33.0 | And you can watch it free. UnveilTV.com, Daniel Cuman along with two of his brothers, Andrew and Matthew is the maker of this film. |
| 3:42.0 | Daniel, why take this issue up? Do you have a personal story, a personal experience that led you to take this issue up? |
| 3:51.0 | Yeah, it's, it's quite a personal story for us and we don't actually tell this part of it often because we're not always asked that question. |
| 3:59.0 | But our own father was treated horribly in the Canadian medical system during the COVID experience. And |
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