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Eugenics in Canada
Most of the discussion around eugenics has been about the planned evolution of humanity. Designer babies and the elimination of genetic defects and diseases. But there is also the other end of eugenics, thinning the herd, eliminating defective and undesirables from society.
This week, the Canadian government released its fourth annual report on medically assisted dying in Canada, finding that 13,241 people were killed by the medical systems, making it #5 on the hit parade’s top ways to die in 2022.
Starting in 2018, the Trudeau regime could only convince 4,480 Canadians to die, the program has tripled the number of victims in just four years. It’s the only run-away successful program the Trudeau government has. Convincing citizens that they’re better off dead than living in Trudeau’s Canada. Like the government has a vested financial interest in paying for death, and not continue expensive medical treatments.
So I have to wonder, so often leftists like to play word games — likes to euphemise away unpleasant sounding realities. Are they doing it here? Is MAiD really intended to clean up society? Just like the maids who clean their mansions, taking care of those nasty unpleasant aspects of daily life…
How much further along until we arrive at this dystopia?
If a Canadian’s only affliction was “poverty,” 27 per cent said they would be fine with legalizing that person’s access to MAID. Another 28 per cent pegged “homelessness” as an appropriate bar to qualify for MAID.
And 20 per cent of respondents were fine with MAID being handed out to anybody for any reason. In other words, one fifth of respondents agreed with the sentiment “medical assistance in dying should always be allowed, regardless of who requests it.”
Notably, these most absolutist supporters of assisted suicide were pretty evenly distributed among age groups, regions and even political demographics: 20 per cent Conservatives, 20 per cent of NDPers and 22 per cent of Liberals were in the “always be allowed” camp.
I don’t know how a conservative squares away supporting medical suicide for no medical reason. What exactly are you in favor of conserving if LIFE isn’t on top of the list? It’s shocking to see so many Canadians following Trudeau’s stupid happy-face fascism into their own graves. The more they support the expansion of the MAiD programs, the more likely they will become the victim of the programs they support. Poetic justice there, I suppose, but thousands if not millions of bystanders may also be swept away to early and unnecessary graves in the process.
This is truly my shocked face.
Published in Healthcare
This is the type of post that is hard to like because it is so tragic.
There is very little to say but…wow.
Looking at the official report, it seems like the number 1 and 2 reasons for choosing to end one’s life was loss of the ability to engage in meaningful life activities (86%) and inability to perform activities of daily living (82%), while actual or fear of pain was 3rd and 59%.
So that seems to explain perhaps Canadian’s views on poverty and homelessness. Is it a societal problem?
Why shouldn’t we celebrate the growth of mercy? Why would anybody want to go on living with the misery of being a climate-denier or disinformation perpetrator? Choosing hate or science denial instead of that which the experts know to be happiness is indistinguishable from an incurable somatic disease, isn’t it? True patriot love in all of us command.
Fifth leading cause of death: euthanasia
Oh my goodness…
On the other hand, Bill Clinton wanted legal abortion, but wanted it “safe, legal, and rare”. Surprisingly, that’s not how it turned out. Whoda thunk it?
A society which does not worship life will tend to worship death. Such societies tend to die, themselves. Of course.
There are so many things that I don’t understand about leftists.
Let’s give Justin a hand.
Looks like he could use one.
Parallels between the murder culture in the Third Reich to that of the murder cult of COVID as the world’s leaders in 2020 to 2023 followed the directives of The WHO, the UN, Bill Gates and national health officials across Western Societies:
https://courses.jchristoff.com/blog/the-formation-of-a-death-cult-society
As Christoff explains in his traumatizing essay: ” Death cult economics are very much in play today, where the state (being operated by this small group of ruling families who benefit from ongoing death and disease) is certainly at play in thousands of examples across the world……especially inside what’s now known as The COVID Operation. Below we have a documentary from Ickonic Studios called “A Good Death“, where government authorities in the United Kingdom have been proven in the affirmative to have murdered seniors en masse in care homes, in order to satisfy inverted economic incentives. You can click the picture below to watch this documentary, which is only one piece of evidence proving that death cult economics and potentially a death cult of old is still very much lurking inside all of our once trusted cultural institutions.”
One thing to point out: at least the Canadian government’s embrace of eugenics announces what the program is about in an above board fashion.
Whereas both the Third Reich euthanasia of disabled people and the more recent COVID death cult allowed for actual scientific principles to be camouflaged as something other than what they were.
The COVID death cult turned traditional scientific and medical principles topsy turvy.
Who knew that within a few months of the COVID virus being promoted as worthy of pandemic status, many traditional, well founded principles were negated, not because of science, but because of proclamations by the likes of Fauci and Bill Gates.
One of the first medical principles to be overturned was that of human immunity.
The public had been told for generations that those natural immunity factors that kick into play once someone has been infected and survived such that the individual does not need the vaccine since the immune system will clobber it.
There was also the deliberate withholding of actual remedies, such as HCQ and zinc as well as ivermectin. In nations where these remedies were used, COVID fatality rate was low. Here in the USA, NYC and places in the state of Washington had fatality rates over 3%. (In NYC at one point the fatality rate was over 6%.)
I could blather on but the entire piece by Christoff is much more worthy of those here who might be interested in reviewing his remarks. But I advise against watching the youtube video Christoff presents on a German researcher’s use of disabled people’s brains for his experiments right before one’s bedtime.
If mentally well adults want for any reason to off themselves, they should be permitted to do without interference for or against from bureaucrats or any other party. The government should have no say in the matter except to assure the act will be voluntary. Under no circumstances should the government be the party making the decision.
God is a human invention, so there’s no afterlife or divine punishment or reward to consider. Humans are but animated bags of bones and offal, and if you’ve had enough, you should be allowed to terminate your existence. Freedom, innit?
Sure, you can run with that…
BUT when you have the active participation of a 3rd party – particularly someone who’s taken an oath to do no harm – aren’t they committing murder? Isnt being suicidal a primary indicator of NOT being mentally well?
What about Sharon Lopatka? She was a suicidal married woman who in 1996 arranged for herself to be tortured and strangled by Robert Glass (who would be convicted and then himself be murdered in prison) IF we’re going to allow the ‘assisted’ death of people for no medical reasons, why not for sadistic gratification? IF the victim is willing what limit is there to sadism?
We’ve seen every single “Slippery Sloop” taken to the absurd levels. Why would murder be any different?
You can’t expect a bag of bones to express, or even to possess, moral insight.
Count Dankula discussed consensual murder.
People who attempt or successfully commit suicide do so because there mental state is temporarily messed up. It is not natural for any sentient being to desire death. People do not make a calm, rational decision to kill themselves. They are mentally ill at that moment and once they are past that moment they do not wish to do so. They need our help, not our encouragement and certainly not our assistance.
I was talking to some people the other day, the topic of drug war came up. They wanted to admit defeat, and open safe consumption sites for junkies… I was appalled, you dont “cure” an addiction by enabling it.
“The Harm Reduction” strategy is still doing harm – lives are would still be lost and destroyed. Committing addicts to treatment is the only way to end their addiction…
Who should do the committing, do you think?
I share the implicit concern about criminalizing addiction per se.
I have sometimes wondered what would happen if we added additional criminal sanctions for crimes done under the influence. Before Mothers Against Drunk Driving, it was possible to argue (not too explicitly)that impairment meant the defendant was actually less culpable. What if that presumption were reversed–if you knowingly impair normal judgment and self-control with substance abuse it should incur a heavier sentence if you violate the law?
If not such criminal penalties there still needs to be some way to foment adverse consequences to shape decision-making in a positive direction. In any event, accommodation and comfort is exactly wrong approach.
Judges, Family, Self.
When you hit a point, that you can see, if you continue as you are, you will die. That is enough to motivate some to get help.
When I say committing, I am not imagining a prison type facility – but rather a secured (maybe remote) location, that is pleasant to be at – maybe a place with gardens, pools gyms, class rooms… A place where someone can get help – not punishment…
There is a lot of hype around the Portugal model (pre 2012) that had a lot of promising results…
Its funny, but in many parts of Europe, being impaired is an aggravating circumstance for a crime…I think we need some thought about that here…Not to criminalize addiction but to reduce crime by punishing those who most frequently commit crimes…
The old 80/20 rule… 80% of crimes are committed by 20% of the population.
Wise words all around.
One big problem though is that many treatment centers are not worthwhile. Perhaps in Canada they are better regulated, but here it can be all about how much money can be gleaned off the person’s health insurance.
One of our TV news magazines had the tales of people who were booted out of the facility their parents had committed them to, without informing anyone of the fact that this was happening.
The stories went like this: the individual was gaining headway but had used up the max amount of insurance available. The individual was then booted out.
Then someone from the facility came by, to the hotel where the individual had been left, and provided them with drugs.
Lather rinse repeat – it is apparently a lucrative way for a facility’s owners to make money.
I thought just like you when I was a child. But the rationale for anti-suicide laws is not to put the corpse, or the survivor, in jail but to discourage people from a coordinated effort to get someone else to commit suicide for someone else’s benefit.
Not too long ago a fairly well off man was trying to get rid of his second or third wife, and one morning they had an argument, and he put a loaded .45 on the table in front of her and ended the argument to the effect, “You should just kill yourself. I’m leaving. Go on, do it.” She had nowhere to go.
He went to work and stayed out late and when he came home there was his wife sprawled against the kitchen table, a bullet hole in her head, a spent casing on the floor and a note on the table that read, “I just wanted to be loved.”
The same goes for “end of life treatment.” Sometimes people have nowhere to go. Killing them isn’t the answer.
Yup. That is it in a nutshell for me. I am all for authorities turning a blind eye to suicides and even assisted suicide depending on the circumstances. But I always want the state to have the right to prosecute because no one should be coerced into ending their life without consequences.
New reporting on how the Trudeau government is fudging the numbers to lower the suicide rates:
Quit picking on Justin Castreau.
I’ve been saying Justine Trudeau for months … But either its not that funny – or too subtle.