Looking to crack into Grandma’s will? In Quebec, Canada, you can now legally put her down without immediate consent!
Starting October 30, Quebec is now allowing patients who meet “certain criteria” to submit an “advanced request” for Medical Aid in Dying (MAID). Someone who has just been diagnosed with Alzheimers or dementia, for example, no longer needs to confirm they wish to die immediately before their euthanization.
Despite this provision violating Canada’s national Criminal Code, the federal government says challenging it "would not be in the public interest.” This type of murder therefore gets let off the hook!
“The request (to die) must be made freely, without external pressure,” insists Quebec's government website. Because saying so will surely prevent your greedy in-laws from forging granny’s hand, of course!
Quebec claims this new law allows patients to make the (literally) life-or-death situation while they’re still in their right mind. They state medical practitioners must verify “the persistence of suffering and that the wish to obtain medical aid in dying remains unchanged by talking with the person at different times.”
“These discussions must be held at reasonably spaced intervals given the progress of the person’s condition,” the website continues.
But they seem to contradict that statement by preventing patients from changing their mind once they’re deemed to have lost it.
In order to withdraw your death request, their website states you MUST still be “capable of consenting to care.” How is this determined? Instead of saying “No, don’t kill me!” you must get permission from either a “physician” or a “specialized nurse practitioner” not to die anymore.
In order to be eligible for advanced MAID, a “competent professional” must also confirm “based on the information at their disposal and according to their clinical judgment, that the person is experiencing enduring and unbearable physical or psychological suffering that cannot be relieved under conditions considered tolerable[.]”
But “psychological” suffering could mean a number of issues from experiencing trauma, a word people throw around loosely these days, to simply being depressed.
Against the wishes of her father, One Canadian judge in Alberta recently signed off on the killing of a 27-year old autistic woman despite admitting there’s no “medical condition” or “evidence” disproving that she’s “generally healthy.”
It’s almost as if Canada’s government wants you to die!
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