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<\/p>\nThe growing worldwide trend of euthanasia and\/or assisted suicide, especially among children and young people, has critics asking troubling questions about the real motivation behind a spate of new laws.<\/p>\n
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In a recent CHD.TV<\/em> episode of \u201cGood Morning CHD<\/em>,\u201d three Canadian doctors \u2014 Drs. Charles Hoffe and Stephen Malthouse and Chris Shaw, Ph.D. \u2014 discussed Canada\u2019s disturbing normalization since 2016 of \u201cmedical assistance in dying<\/em>\u201d (\u201cMAID\u201d) and their government\u2019s possibly imminent endorsement of the practice for \u201cmature minors<\/em>\u201d who request death without parental knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n \u201cPhysician-assisted suicide<\/em>,\u201d \u201cassisted suicide<\/em>,\u201d \u201cassisted dying<\/em>\u201d and euthanasia \u2014 each with slightly different legal connotations \u2014 all refer to medical interventions to expedite death, with the main distinction being \u201cwho performs the final, fatal act.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Last year, 3.3% of deaths in Canada occurred under MAID, representing \u201ca growth rate of 32.4% over 2020<\/em>,\u201d and \u201csteady year over year growth<\/em>\u201d in all provinces, including in the 18- to 45-year age group.<\/p>\n Among the first 100 patients to avail themselves of MAID in the province of Ontario, more than 5% were adults ages 35-54.<\/p>\n In the Netherlands and Belgium, other countries that allow euthanasia, those under age 60 account for 12.5% and 15% of those euthanized, respectively.<\/p>\n What the Canadian doctors were discussing on \u201cGood Morning CHD<\/em>\u201d was a consequential 2021 modification to Canada\u2019s original MAID law, eliminating the criterion that previously had made it a requirement for a candidate\u2019s death to be \u201creasonably foreseeable<\/em>\u201d \u2014 and making decisions about eligibility far more subjective.<\/p>\n Even for those with \u201creasonably foreseeable<\/em>\u201d deaths, the bill eliminated a formerly mandated 10-day \u201creflection period<\/em>\u201d and downgraded the requirement for independent witnesses from two to one.<\/p>\n The three doctors and other critics of the more expansive policy warn that it will \u201cnurture the country\u2019s growing culture of death<\/em>\u201d and open the door to even more widespread implementation of a practice that is already ethically contentious, particularly since the Canadian government has pledged to consider eligibility for minors as young as 12 if deemed \u201ccapable of making decisions with respect to their health<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Extending MAID eligibility to youth \u2014 which could be on the horizon as soon as 2023 \u2014 would mean that \u201cbefore children in Canada can drive vehicles, they may be allowed to consent to physicians taking their lives<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n As Hoffe wryly commented to his two colleagues, \u201cIt is amazing the lengths that the government seems to be going to \u2014 to reduce the population<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n A growing trend, including in the youngest<\/strong><\/p>\n Legalization of euthanasia and\/or physician-assisted suicide is a growing trend worldwide, exhibiting a \u201cmomentum<\/em>\u201d that \u201cappears unstoppable<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Not only are more and more nations endorsing a practice that was \u201cprohibited and morally condemned<\/em>\u201d throughout much of human history, but every country or jurisdiction that allows it is experiencing the same year-over-year growth as Canada.<\/p>\n And when it comes to hastening death for young people, in particular, Canada is not entirely an outlier.<\/p>\n Belgium, in 2014, became the first country to legalize lethal injection for children of all ages, having laid the groundwork 12 years earlier with legal euthanasia \u2014 explicitly defined as \u201cmedical treatment<\/em>\u201d \u2014 for adults and emancipated minors.<\/p>\n In 2016 and 2017, according to the Daily Mail<\/em>, Belgium\u2019s \u201cradical laws<\/em>\u201d enabled the putting to death of three children and 19 young adults under age 30. Belgium reported another child euthanasia death in 2019, a year in which the country euthanized a \u201crecord number<\/em>\u201d of people overall.<\/p>\n Also in the vanguard of kiddie euthanasia is the Netherlands, where a 2002 law not only established the practice for adults \u2014 with the range of eligible conditions expanded in 2007 \u2014 but allowed euthanasia for children ages 12 and up. Parental consent is not required for those 16 or 17 years old.<\/p>\n In the first decade, there were five assisted deaths in Dutch adolescents, including one 12-year-old.<\/p>\n Under a \u201cdevil\u2019s bargain between medical professionals and prosecutors<\/em>,\u201d Dutch doctors also can kill certain babies in their first year without fear of prosecution, as long as they follow a designated protocol.<\/p>\n In late 2022, a member of the Quebec College of Physicians proposed something similar to the Canadian parliament, suggesting that babies with \u201csevere deformations or very grave and severe syndromes<\/em>\u201d be candidates for assisted suicide.<\/p>\n Objecting, a horrified bioethicist and physician noted that this would leave too \u201cmuch room for parental, physician, personal, social and economic bias<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Given the unwarranted fear-mongering about pediatric Covid-19 \u2014 used to justify misleading and ultimately genocidal vaccine mandates for kids \u2014 it is noteworthy that during the pandemic years, the Netherlands joined Canada in pointedly escalating its kid-focused euthanasia legislation.<\/p>\n In late 2020, the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, began taking steps to extend \u201cactive termination of life<\/em>\u201d to children ages 1-12, first stacking the deck with a favorable commissioned report from the Dutch Society of Pediatrics.<\/p>\n Dutch Health Minister Ernst Kuipers renewed the case for under-12 euthanasia in a June 2022 briefing to members of parliament.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, in May 2022, Colombia became the first Latin American country to endorse medically assisted suicide, having made euthanasia legal in 1997. The laws apply to children as young as 6.<\/p>\n Switzerland, where assisted suicide (but not euthanasia) has been legal for seven decades, has played an influential role in normalizing the practice for all ages, even attracting lucrative \u201csuicide tourism<\/em>\u201d in slick designer-furnished clinics due to its willingness to provide death to foreigners.<\/p>\n As long as \u201cpatients commit the act themselves and helpers have no vested interest in their death<\/em>,\u201d there is no specified age limit, prompting The Guardian<\/em> to observe in 2014, \u201ctechnically even a healthy young person could use such services<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n According to studies of that time period, 1 in 5 assisted suicides in Switzerland involved adults under age 65, including individuals as young as 18.<\/p>\n A year ago, Switzerland legalized a fancy new way for people to kill themselves that is likely to appeal to young people \u2014 a space-age \u201ccoffin-like capsule with windows<\/em>\u201d designed so that the decedent-to-be can push a button, flood the interior with nitrogen and die within 10 minutes.<\/p>\n Why die? Let\u2019s count the ways<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2017, Kees van der Staaij, the leader of the Netherlands\u2019 Christian SGP party, communicated his concerns \u2014 in the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, no less \u2014 about his country\u2019s \u201ceuthanasia culture<\/em>,\u201d and other prominent figures agreed the situation might be \u201cgetting out of hand<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n That year, Dutch politicians discussed the option of legalizing euthanasia for \u201cperfectly healthy<\/em>\u201d people, allowing \u201cany person age 75 or over who decides their life is \u2018complete\u2019 to receive euthanasia<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2015, Belgian doctors agreed to euthanize a healthy 24-year-old woman who convinced herself of a lifelong \u201cdeath wish<\/em>\u201d despite growing up \u201cwith a quiet, stable family<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Canada\u2019s 2021 relaxation of its criteria for hastening death suggests that concerns about an out-of-hand process are legitimate \u2014 219 people \u201cwhose natural deaths were not reasonably foreseeable<\/em>\u201d immediately opted that year for assisted death, with nearly half of that group (46%) citing \u201cneurological<\/em>\u201d problems as a reason to die.<\/p>\n Between 2011 and 2014 in the Netherlands, doctors euthanized 110 people solely for mental disorders, including a man in his 30s \u201cwhose only diagnosis was autism<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n In a study published in 2020, European researchers cautioned that granting euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) \u201cbased on a perception of the patient\u2019s illness as being untreatable with no prospect of improvement, could in many cases fail to meet the due care criteria listed in EAS laws<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n They added, \u201cThis practice neglects the people\u2019s potential for having a life worth living.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n In Canada, the Netherlands and elsewhere, some suggest that the ranks of assisted suicide candidates increasingly are likely to include not just youth and the mentally ill but also other marginalized groups, such as the homeless, the poor, the disabled, those with chronic pain \u2014 and \u201ceven dissenters who the government feels are not fit for society<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Critics posit that instead of preserving human dignity, medically assisted death \u201cseems to be a way to kill the vulnerable<\/em>,\u201d with the availability of assisted suicide \u201cinducing hopelessness and removing pressure for an improvement in psychiatric and social services<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n In fact, cost-benefit analyses have been creeping into the assisted death calculus for some time, with research and reports issued in advance of Canada\u2019s 2021 amendments describing how doctor-assisted death could \u201csave millions<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Observers also note \u201cthe pressure on aging, low-birthrate societies to cut their health care costs<\/em>\u201d and describe doctors \u201callegedly suggesting [assisted suicide] to sick people seeking a quietus for reasons linked to financial stress<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Even euthanasia\u2019s most ardent supporters are concerned that the \u201cfinancial gutting of the healthcare sector<\/em>\u201d will encourage desperate people to resort to assisted death.<\/p>\n Overt\u2026\u2026. and covert<\/strong><\/p>\n In the U.S., physician-assisted suicide is legal for adults in 10 states plus the nation\u2019s capital, with half having legalized it just in the last five years: Oregon (law passed in 1994 and implemented in 1997), Washington (2009), Montana (2009), Vermont (2013), California (2015), Colorado (2016), the District of Columbia (2017), Hawaii (2018), Maine (2019), New Jersey (2019) and New Mexico (2021).<\/p>\n Reflecting the pandemic-spurred trend toward remote healthcare, Vermont\u2019s governor signed a law last year to permit telemedicine as a route for \u201caid in dying.<\/em>\u201d The bill makes it possible for patients to waive the \u201ctwo in-person consults and 48-hour waiting period<\/em>\u201d ordinarily required to get a prescription, and also grants healthcare providers and pharmacists full legal immunity.<\/p>\n The enthusiasm that these jurisdictions display for the \u201cfreedom<\/em>\u201d to die \u2014 employing loft rhetoric about \u201cdignity<\/em>\u201d and \u201chumane<\/em>\u201d policies \u2014 contrasts sharply with their abysmal and malevolent performance during the pandemic, when all (with the exception of Montana) stood out in their willingness to destroy people\u2019s livelihoods and use authoritarian measures to suppress constitutionally guaranteed freedoms.<\/p>\n The contrast was also evident in Spain, which chose \u2014 coincidentally or not \u2014 to legalize adult euthanasia in 2021. The same prime minister who vigorously enforced pandemic lockdowns and restrictions ironically declared that the euthanasia decision made his country \u201cmore humane, fairer and freer<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n As the pandemic disturbingly revealed, however, it is not just overt euthanasia that is on the rise \u2014 governments also appear increasingly willing to put their citizens to death without admitting to it.<\/p>\n In the U.K., which nominally promises a jail sentence of up to 14 years for those who help others to die, credible on-the-ground reports described the use of covert euthanasia as a \u201cmedical protocol<\/em>,\u201d with damning evidence including the health secretary\u2019s unprecedented acquisition of a two-year supply of the execution drug midazolam in March 2020.<\/p>\n Citizens refer to the death of more than 136,000 elderly residents of U.K. care homes since April 2020 as the \u201cMidazolam Murders<\/em>,\u201d but they also point out that \u201cthe UK Government and its institutions have been acting as if euthanasia is perfectly legal<\/em>\u201d for far longer, since at least 2008.<\/p>\n The ventilator- and remdesivir-only Covid-19 protocols inflexibly adhered to by U.S. hospitals immune from liability and salivating over hefty financial incentives \u2014 were another form of covert murder, as was the withholding around the world of safe and inexpensive treatments such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.<\/p>\n And of course, the aggressive imposition of mandates for known-to-be-dangerous Covid-19 shots took government-instigated death and disability to even more shocking levels.<\/p>\n Describing how medically assisted suicide has become a cherished \u201cprogressive<\/em>\u201d and \u201cliberal<\/em>\u201d value, one writer asks, \u201cWhat if a society remains liberal but ceases to be civilized?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n As the cultural conditioning favoring euthanasia ramps up, citizens everywhere urgently need to query their governments\u2019 uncivilized motives for both silently and openly celebrating death, rather than life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n yogaesoteric <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The growing worldwide trend of euthanasia and\/or assisted suicide, especially among children and young people, has critics asking troubling questions about the real motivation behind a spate of new laws. 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\nJanuary 18, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n