When the "Right To Die"
Becomes the "Duty To Die"
Today we learn of a patient in Canada whose heart was harvested after a doctor put him to death1 via the Canadian Medical Assistance In Dying law.
The bone-deep shudder I experienced upon reading that was hard to describe. It was the same kind that you experience when you foresee full-scale butchery around the corner, but no-one seems to care.
The reading didn’t make it any better: A patient with a wonky ticker graduated to needing it replaced. Ten days after he went on the transplant list, doctors found a match. Conveniently enough, this match was from a patient slated for social murder2 by a doctor because of a diagnosis3 of ALS.4
Let’s get the elephant out of the room: Personally, if you want to top yourself, I’m of the opinion that’s between you and your God. You want to go out on a farm-to-market road and suck-start a shotgun? You do you, boo.
Do not put that on someone else. You do not do it somewhere that your loved ones will find you, and you do not get to enlist someone else to blot their conscience.
You damned sure don’t involve the very people whose focus should be the vow of “First, Do No Harm.”
On top of that, I have a serious case of the arse with the Canadian version of Legalized Social Murder, due to a whole bunch of issues, including, but not limited to: Suggesting that Canadian military veterans who called for help with PTSD sign up to be put to death by a doctor; performing Social Murder for — wait for it: hearing loss — and multiple, multiple instances of MAID being offered by healthcare professionals unprompted, and without asking.5
There are accusations surfacing that Canada is using Physician Provided Social Murder because it’s cheaper than their taxpayer-funded socialism safety nets.6
Now, add to that glorious spit sandwich the fact that a physician may think that someone else may need your organs worse than you do.
I have deep issues with this, and you should, too.
You want to decriminalise suicide?7 Fine, knock yourself out, but keep the medical profession out of it …
… And — by God — never, ever make committing suicide be any other sort of tangible, physical benefit to someone else.
Allowing the taxpayers, or any other person, to gain something of worth if a doctor puts you to death leads to all sorts of justifications for expanding things, and is just flat evil.
Harvesting organs from the people you kill is one damned step too far.
Ian
Yes, that’s the proper phrase. Makes you uncomfortable? Good.
Does that make you less uncomfortable than “put to death by a doctor”? No? Good.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a brutal, debilitating illness with a three to five year lifespan, 100% fatality rate, and no treatment.
I will note that absolutely none of the on-line articles about this make any mention of how far down the three-to-five year road the “donor” was.
Which is, (allegedly) according to Canada, unlawful, but I can’t find where any “medical professional” have been sanctioned for getting caught doing so.
My shocked face, let me show you it.
Is there actually a place where committing suicide is a penal code offence?
This whole thing has actually been done to someone I know, here in the USA.
The Oregon 'Mandatory Suicide Law' - oh wait, that's supposed to be 'Voluntary Assisted Suicide' isn't it?
Well it AIN'T (Or at least wasn't, I have no idea where it is now having fled the People's Republic of Oregon - a state that is pure commie now).
Someone I knew had terminal cancer. I Knew this person. They were determined to live as much of their life as possible - right up until Oregon said (this is a FACT) 'We're only going to pay for you to kill yourself - because that's the cheapest option and you MUST take it'.
Yup, so much for all those arguments that they wouldn't do everything they could to get grandma to off herself. Only instead of family members doing it, it was the STATE.
I honestly don't know how it all played out in the end. If they won their fight against the state to get their benefits back or not - because I didn't want to add to the family's grief and they did pass by the year's end.
But there was someone who was all for 'assisted suicide' and said this would never happen, and didn't have any answer when I showed them this case. I came very close to performing a performative dance, with all sorts of instruments, upon their body.
"Paging Mr. Niven, Mister Larry Niven."
They're only one step away from making organ harvesting mandatory for the death penalty, and with all the "Good" that comes from that, expect a lot more death sentences.