Monday, December 05, 2022

You Can Expect This When Government Is In The Suicide Business

Combine government-run health care with "medical assistance in dying", as they do up north in Canada, and this is what you get:

Canada's Veterans Affairs office offered to assist a Paralympian and veteran to commit suicide when she sought to have a wheelchair lift installed in her home, the woman told lawmakers last week.

Christine Gauthier, a 52-year-old retired corporal who competed in the 2016 Paralympics at Rio De Janeiro, testified to lawmakers that a VA official had offered — in writing — to provide her with a medically-assisted suicide kit. The case officer remains unnamed but reportedly made similar offers to at least three other veterans, according to the Independent.

"I have a letter saying that if you’re so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAID, medical assistance in dying," Gauthier said in a hearing before the House of Commons veterans affairs committee.

The rot up there has grown so much, so fast.  What happened to those people?

1 comment:

Steve USMA '85 said...

So when someone is felling down and out the first thing you do is tell them the Guv'mint will help them punch out? What kind of mental health service is that?