{"id":228082,"date":"2020-08-01T13:51:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T18:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=228082"},"modified":"2020-08-02T18:44:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T23:44:09","slug":"canada-euthanizing-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/canada-euthanizing-loneliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada is euthanizing people for loneliness and emotional distress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/hundreds-of-sick-canadians-euthanized-over-loneliness\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Review<\/a>) Good grief. We are told that euthanasia is \u201ccompassion.\u201d But how compassionate is it when last year in Canada, hundreds of sick people were euthanized because of loneliness?<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s 2019 MAID [medical assistance in dying] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/services\/medical-assistance-dying-annual-report-2019.html#message\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Annual Report<\/a> found that 13.7 percent of the 5,631 Canadians killed by doctors asked to be lethally injected because of \u201cisolation or loneliness.\u201d If my math is right, that\u2019s about 771 people, or 64 a month, or two per day. Good grief!<\/p>\n<p>Some of the other reasons people gave for asking to be killed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loss of ability to engage in enjoyable activities, 82.1 percent. That\u2019s a serious concern, but with proper interventions, it can be overcome.\n<li>Loss of ability to perform activities of daily living, 78.1 percent. Ditto.\n<li>\u201cInadequate control of pain (or concern about it),\u201d 53.9 percent. That\u2019s a scandalously high percentage. Palliative and hospice pain-control experts will tell you that most serious pain in terminal illnesses can be successfully alleviated.\n<li>Loss of dignity, 53.3 percent. Again, this is a serious concern but can be overcome with appropriate care.\n<li>Perceived burden on family, friends, and caregivers, 34 percent. In other words, people put themselves out of their loved one\u2019s misery.\n<li>Emotional distress\/anxiety\/fear\/existential suffering, 4.7 percent.\n<\/ul>\n<p>These statistics are scandalous and should make Canada deeply ashamed.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, most Canadians are proud that their doctors can legally kill sick people whose deaths are \u201creasonably foreseeable.\u201d Not only that, but the country is now engaged in the process that will expand the conditions qualifying for lethal injection, including incompetent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/canada-alzheimers-society-endorses-euthanasia-by-advance-directive\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">people with dementia<\/a> if they asked to be put down in an advance directive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/canada-hospitals-euthanasia-halt-pandemic\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Euthanasia advocates upset some Canada hospitals don\u2019t consider it \u2018essential\u2019 during pandemic<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so bad, that in Ontario, if a doctor refuses to euthanize a legally qualified patient or find another doctor he or she knows will kill, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/human-exceptionalism\/kill-or-get-out-medicine-wesley-j-smith\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">risk professional discipline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t just about Canada. The country is our closest cultural cousin. If we swallow the hemlock as our northern cousins have, the same lethal pattern could unfold here.<\/p>\n<p>How bad would it be? Canada has about one-ninth the population of the United States. If the same percentage of people euthanized in Canada were killed by doctors in the U.S.A., it would add up to more than <em>50,000 medical homicides per year<\/em>. Do we really want that?<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This article was published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/hundreds-of-sick-canadians-euthanized-over-loneliness\/\"rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Review<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\"rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(National Review) Good grief. We are told that euthanasia is \u201ccompassion.\u201d But how compassionate is it when last year in Canada, hundreds of sick people were euthanized because of loneliness? The country\u2019s 2019 MAID [medical assistance in dying] Annual Report found that 13.7 percent of the 5,631 Canadians killed by doctors asked to be lethally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":217818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,7077,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Canada is euthanizing people for loneliness and emotional distress<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Canada continues to allow euthanasia and assisted suicide to spread unchecked, leading to people killed simply because they&#039;re lonely.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/canada-euthanizing-loneliness\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Canada is euthanizing people for loneliness and emotional distress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Canada continues to allow euthanasia and assisted suicide to spread unchecked, leading to people killed simply because they&#039;re lonely.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/canada-euthanizing-loneliness\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-01T18:51:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-08-02T23:44:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/GettyImages-857562684-elderly-woman-sad.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1192\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Wesley J. 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