Mr Lyon, thank you for speaking the truth about the horrors of MAiD. My heartfelt condolences for the loss of your father. MAiD is ethically and morally repugnant. Everything you say about the destructive nature of MAiD is true. My beloved mother was killed by stealth euthanasia in a hospice facility in Minnesota in 2020. Watching her die from terminal sedation, malnutrition and dehydration was gut-wrenching. It's been four years since her death. I understand too well the dreams which become nightmares. It's abhorrent and evil that medical murder is practiced globally.
Kim Howard, I am very sorry for the loss of your dear mother. MaiD is euthanasia, a brutal culling of the herd under cover of “kindness” and “autonomy”
Thank you for your condolences. Agree, MAiD is euthanasia. No matter how it's labeled: hospice, palliative care, physician assisted suicide it is still medical murder. Healthcare has become a commodity that is based upon cost containment and rationing of care to individuals viewed as "worthy of being saved." The hospice industry is rife with fraud, mismanagement and substandard care of vulnerable patients.
When I gave birth to my son, I had a birthing doula. I was determined to have a natural childbirth, no medical interventions, and I was lucky enough to have a no-complications delivery at a birthing centre in Manhattan (which was attached to St. Vincent's Hospital, in case anything had gone wrong). Anyway, my doula was a bit of a flake, her belief system a strange mixture of New Age mysticism and American can-do optimism. But at least she was oriented toward enabling birth, not hastening death.
The concept of a “death doula” really does fill me despair. Imagine having a smooth-tongued and ideologically-captured social worker accompanying you to your state-sanctioned death-by-lethal-injection, whispering in your ear about “autonomy” all the while?
How long before Canadians are asked/pressured/coerced to submit to MAiD at the age of 75, for the good of the country?
You raise a very interesting point. There's a range of unregulated third-party actors who seem play a role in some deaths, including bioethicists, members of humanist societies, and 'death doulas'. None are recognised to be assessors or providers or have any other role, which is a job restricted to MDs and NPs.
One provider is known to compare providing MAiD to birth.
Mr Lyon, thank you for speaking the truth about the horrors of MAiD. My heartfelt condolences for the loss of your father. MAiD is ethically and morally repugnant. Everything you say about the destructive nature of MAiD is true. My beloved mother was killed by stealth euthanasia in a hospice facility in Minnesota in 2020. Watching her die from terminal sedation, malnutrition and dehydration was gut-wrenching. It's been four years since her death. I understand too well the dreams which become nightmares. It's abhorrent and evil that medical murder is practiced globally.
Kim Howard, I am very sorry for the loss of your dear mother. MaiD is euthanasia, a brutal culling of the herd under cover of “kindness” and “autonomy”
Thank you for your condolences. Agree, MAiD is euthanasia. No matter how it's labeled: hospice, palliative care, physician assisted suicide it is still medical murder. Healthcare has become a commodity that is based upon cost containment and rationing of care to individuals viewed as "worthy of being saved." The hospice industry is rife with fraud, mismanagement and substandard care of vulnerable patients.
Thank you and I am so sorry about your mother and the struggles and fallout from it.
Thank you for your condolences and concern. I greatly appreciate your advocacy and sharing your thoughts. Your articles resonate deeply with me.
This is a beautiful, and heart-wrenching, essay.
When I gave birth to my son, I had a birthing doula. I was determined to have a natural childbirth, no medical interventions, and I was lucky enough to have a no-complications delivery at a birthing centre in Manhattan (which was attached to St. Vincent's Hospital, in case anything had gone wrong). Anyway, my doula was a bit of a flake, her belief system a strange mixture of New Age mysticism and American can-do optimism. But at least she was oriented toward enabling birth, not hastening death.
The concept of a “death doula” really does fill me despair. Imagine having a smooth-tongued and ideologically-captured social worker accompanying you to your state-sanctioned death-by-lethal-injection, whispering in your ear about “autonomy” all the while?
How long before Canadians are asked/pressured/coerced to submit to MAiD at the age of 75, for the good of the country?
Thank you for the supportive words.
You raise a very interesting point. There's a range of unregulated third-party actors who seem play a role in some deaths, including bioethicists, members of humanist societies, and 'death doulas'. None are recognised to be assessors or providers or have any other role, which is a job restricted to MDs and NPs.
One provider is known to compare providing MAiD to birth.
Thank you for this. I greatly value your voice on MAID.
Thank you - l likewise very much appreciate reading your reflections on your journey.