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A doctor was asked if the signature on a paper for MAID was from the patient's. He said someone told him it was.

That is exactly why we have assisted suicide, around 100,000 abortions a year, promotion of sexual orientation, gender identity, same-sex marriage, pride days, catch and release criminal justice system, no capital punishment for murderers, and on and on. Let's not forget the ideology a criminal is not responsible for his crimes; it is either society's fault, the influences in his past life or he is NCR because of mental problems. A decadent, crumbling society sliding deeper into depravity. But not only that, there are reports the MAID protocols are not being followed anyway and because of the secrecy surrounding it, it can be abused and people given MAID who never really chose it or didn't know what they were doing.

That's what the Nazis thought would justify killing six million Jews. They propagandized the public for years in Germany to turn them against the Jews. They invented evil science and evil theology to convince the public. One of Hitler's right hand men was Gerhart Kittel, a theologian turned Nazi. He was one of HItler's chief propagandists. He wrote articles for Hitler in publications for years to turn the people against the Jews. He was convicted and sentence as a war criminal after the war. You can Google him. Shockingly Gerhard Kittel wrote the ten volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament that is used by all modern Bible translators to find the meaning of words. (even though he was a convicted war criminal). The King James Version is the only reliable Bible to use being produced in 1611 and based on the Received Text. They painted the Jews as evil and needed to be destroyed while promoting their Aryan race. I see a similar pattern here in Canada. First brainwash the people into believing in the Trudeau liberal democracy church. The ideology that democracy makes things right and moral if that is what the majority want is the basis of diabolical legalized suicide or murder. That is the liberal ideology in a nutshell. Then you can use it to do whatever you wish just as the Nazis did. Historic Christian teachings about what is right and what is wrong do not count any more. Only the new ideology of liberal "democracy" determines right and wrong. MAID is based on evil ideology/theology that they are being merciful in allowing legalized assisted suicide. After all who would question the phrase "death with dignity"? First brainwash the people with the ideology that Liberalism knows what is best for you; then use it to enforce the evil agenda.

You have found a new word or invented one, "CHUD" that you think adds something or sheds new insight? Won't be of much value though because nobody knows what it means.

The simple fact is the parents love their children and have a responsibility to raise them. They have a right to know what is going on no matter what it is. We know LGBTQ/trans issues are not a normal and any normal parent would not be too happy to find out their child is into that. But, and this is important, the parents have a right to know what is going on. They are the primary caregivers. The reason the government does not want parents to know is because they know what is going on is WRONG and they know parents will not be happy. The bottom line is the government should not be enabling this behavior and grooming kids in school to think this is normal. What the government is doing is outrageous and borders on the criminal and child abuse. SOGI123 is basically evil ideology being put into young minds.

It is reasonable to believe the higher numbers of suicide among LGBTQ/trans youth is the breakdown of the family structure and the drift of society away from God and the Bible. Society is becoming more heathen if I may put it that way and there is a common belief that anything goes. By that I mean the liberal ideology is that everyone should be free to do their own thing regardless of what it is, if it does not directly affect other people. A rejection of God and his word is a rejection of a stable, sane, law-abiding society and the end of a normal family structure.

Why is that? The reasons are complex but there is no proof it is because the parents become aware of what is going on. Of course any parent may be concerned or upset when learning about a child's abnormal behavior. But that does not mean they do not have a right to know. They are the primary caregivers and absolutely have a right to be kept informed of what their children are doing. A psychology website goes into some detail about the causes of why suicide rates are higher for LGBTQ/trans youth. There are many factors that may contribute to it. Whether parents know what their kids are doing or don't know may not have any bearing on it. But it seems to be the left's go-to now to somehow blame the parents for suicide among youth. quote According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth aged 15 to 24 and the third leading cause of death among youth aged 10 to 14 (CDC, 2010). Among youth who identify as sexual minorities, the likelihood of death by suicide has been estimated to be two to seven times greater than the likelihood of death by suicide among heterosexual youth (Haas et al., 2011). Haas et al. suggest that such a range exists because records of death rarely include a person’s sexual orientation. More precise data exist on the prevalence of suicidal ideation among sexual minority youth, however, with twice as many reporting a desire or intent to die when compared to heterosexual youth (King et al., 2008). Various theories abound as to why rates of suicide and/or suicidal ideation are higher among youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQ-IA). Chief among them: the minority stress hypothesis and the interpersonal psychological theory of suicide (Russell & Fish, 2016). Irrespective of theoretical orientation, however, most researchers, psychologists, and mental health practitioners agree that youth identifying as a sexual minority are exposed to a higher number of risk factors than their heterosexual counterparts. Sexual minority youth also face several unique risk factors for suicidal ideation and completed suicide (Mustanski & Liu, 2012). General risk factors for suicide identified over the past several decades include a family history of suicide, childhood maltreatment, having a mental illness (in particular: borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, antisocial personality disorder, conduct disorder, and depression), struggling with substance abuse, experiencing chronic feelings of hopelessness, and having access to a means of completing suicide (i.e., access to a weapon) (Franklin et al., 2017). Perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness have also been shown to increase one’s risk of suicidal ideation and death by suicide (Baams, Grossman, & Russel, 2015). Additionally, a substantial amount of evidence has linked episodes of self-harm to suicidal ideation and suicide attempts. Though the relationship between self-harm and suicide is complicated by the fact that not all episodes of self-harm are directly related to or derivative of an intention to die, a systematic review and meta-analysis by Chan et al. (2016) of various factors correlated with suicide in the wake of self-harm found self-harm to be predictive of death by suicide. The same review also found that poor physical health and male gender increased one’s risk of suicide completion. unquote Why Are Suicide Rates Higher Among LGBTQ Youth? | Psychology Today The truth is which is being left out of this conversation is that the parents and family are the foundation of youth. It is a fact that a good home and parents are the basis of stable youth of sound mind. If you break and divide the family structure you are asking for instability and harm. That is what leads to suicide ideation and suicide.

Some commenters on here think MAID is a simple matter of individual free choice. In actual fact that is not how it has worked in the world. Read some of the many articles to learn the truth of what has been happening in the world. Politicians who pass MAID laws think they have everything solved and do not realize that is not how things work out in the real world. " Euthanasia: impossible to police once legal Alex Schadenberg Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Professor Theo Boer The Irish Law Society Gazette published an article on September 26, 2023 reporting on the presentation by Professor Theo Boer to the [Irish government] Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying. Dr. Boer, who is from the Netherlands, supported the Netherlands euthanasia law in the past. However, after being a euthanasia case reviewer for 9 years (2005 - 2014) he has come to the conclusion that it is impossible to police the euthanasia law. Boer told the Committee: Loneliness and meaningless are constituent reasons for asking for euthanasia. Boer gave an example of how the law could not be upheld: He cited a Dutch case where there was a question over the legitimacy of a signature requesting euthanasia, and from which an ethics committee had to step back, because it did not hold criminal investigatory powers. “When the doctor was asked ‘are you sure that this signature is the signature of the patient’, the doctor said ‘I was told that it was’. “So, in the end, we backed off,” Prof Boer said. Boer commented on the "silent pressure" of euthanasia: “Once you have a law … it is absolutely impossible to put a police officer in every hospital room or in every bedroom … and look [for] some silent pressure,” “That is impossible, because that will infringe very much on the privacy of their patient-doctor relationship so there is no solution,” Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Euthanasia: impossible to police once legal (alexschadenberg.blogspot.com)

" The recording from an October 2021 training session documents the use of sedation to obtain consent. Raikin explains the importance of the use of sedation to obtain consent for death: At the core of death care is the presumption that safeguards work and that consent, the most important safeguard, prevents death care from slipping into rampant homicide or suicide contagion. Instead, it is turning into the end of medicine. Raikin provides examples of the use of sedation to gain consent for death: In Belgium last year, after a lethal injection failed to kill a 36-year-old woman with terminal cancer, the presiding physician smothered her with a pillow. In New Zealand and Canada, suicidal patients seeking medical care for suicide prevention were prompted to consider assisted suicide instead. In the Netherlands, a similar story of a physician sedating her patient into accepting euthanasia led to the first criminal trial of a euthanasia physician. She was acquitted. The judges said, “We believe that given the deeply demented condition of the patient the doctor did not need to verify her wish for euthanasia,” even though the patient repeatedly attempted to fight off her physician." Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Canada: How Death Care is pushing out Health Care (alexschadenberg.blogspot.com)

"Recently Kathrin Mentler went to the Assessment Centre at Vancouver General Hospital for help as she was experiencing suicidal ideation. While being assessed the counsellor asked her if she had considered Medical Assistance in Dying. Mentler told the media that she was shocked and sickened that she was given recommendations on how to kill herself. A report from the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) that was tabled in the House of Commons on February 15, 2023 calling for a drastic expansion of (MAiD). The report recommended that "mature minors" and patients with dementia should be permitted to make advanced requests for MAiD by advanced directive. We need you to help slow the growth and normalization of MAiD in Canada. Enough is enough. Death-care for some is not a substitute for healthcare for all." Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Conservative Party of Canada passes Policy 908 opposing expansion of euthanasia (alexschadenberg.blogspot.com)

I will be surprised if they release any records on the Nazis because they lean toward being Nazis themselves with abortion on demand and medical assistance in dying. They have a death culture engrained in their thinking and zero respect for human life. They are an elite inner circle that strictly looks out for themselves. Everything they do is weighed on the number of votes they might get. Never what is right or wrong. This was also evident when they turned away the ship of Jewish refugees from Europe around WW2, yet accepted Nazi war criminals as refugees after the war.

Say no to a culture of death. Never give in, never back down. Do the right thing and defend the sanctity of human life at all stages. No Options, No Choice (nooptionsnochoice.com) Euthanasia Prevention Coalition | Building a broad based network to oppose euthanasia & assisted suicide worldwide. (epcc.ca)

Who wants carbon taxes reduced or killed is a no brainer. If the conservatives stick to this, I am sure they will have a good chance in the next election. That plus PP's plans to help fix the housing crisis. He has announced what sounds like a good plan to start. The Liberals have little to offer but more carbon taxes and I think I heard 300% increase in some particular tax which I can't recall what it was exactly. Maybe someone remembers.

This has nothing much to do with the subject of this thread. You should start another thread on Iraq or whatever if you want to talk about that.

This is appalling that this is going on in Canada. Very tragic.

I am sorry you lost your wife that way. Tragic. But I would not blame God. God does not do that.

That's fine. I am not trying to force you to believe what I do. Good evening sir.

I will try to answer these question, but I admit I am not an expert. There are things that we do not understand. Man only understands what God has revealed to him in His written word, the Bible. My understanding is very limited. I am not a Bible scholar so some of your question may be beyond my ability to answer, especially off the top of my head. Some might be able to be answered after some study. First, medical advances over the past century have given mankind a much longer life span. Even though many people get cancer, heart problems etc., they are able to live much longer. God considers life as sacred. He created man in his own image. What exactly that means I am not 100% sure. I don't think it means physically in his image, but perhaps in the sense we have intelligence (or should have) and the power of reason, which animals and plants do not have. We also have a spirit and a soul which is another subject. God is a spirit and is present everywhere although he is not made of the material universe. He is separate from it. Many heathen religions believe in a god which is part of the material universe. So because God considers human life sacred or of infinite value, he has given mankind commandments on how man is to live. One of those commandments is thou shalt not kill. There are only certain exceptions to this such as by lawful authorities in defence of one's life, defence of one's country, and execution for murder as part of the justice system by lawful authorities. Therefore the medical system does not have any authority to end someone's life by using any active measure to cause death. This has been part of the hypocratic oath of some medical associations I believe but has changed over the years and different associations ahve different oaths. Now because God considers human life sacred, he does not condone anyone taking it upon themselves to end it. If however, in the medical profession, a patient is in such a condition that they cannot be revived or saved, the doctors have the prerogative of disconnecting the extraordinary life saving equipment, but that would be only in rare circumstances when a patient cannot be saved and after consultation with the family. That is not considered as actively ending a person's life. That is a necessary part of the health care system because there will always be patients in such a predicament that their lives cannot be saved. I am not sure I answered your question(s). If not, please clarify again.

This is why it is so important to have some knowledge about God and the Bible. Without that knowledge, you are just stumbling along in the dark without any clear idea of what life and it's purpose is all about. If you believe this: No maker of the universe, no ultimate purpose of our existence, then you would believe mankind is just a blob of chemicals and everything is just an accident. Life is then purposeless and when something bad happens, you feel bitter and resentful. Life is just a downhill slide until death which you believe is oblivion. That would explain why one would believe in MAID. No purpose, no meaning. Just end it all with a clean, easy exit.

OK, I accept I didn't answer your question or not properly or misinterpreted it. Please ask me the question again, in a clear manner. I will try to answer it honestly if it comes across as a sincere question.

I posted an article to you an hour ago explaining that God is not the cause of sickness. It appears you did not bother to read it. Or perhaps you are not capable of understanding such articles. Or you are blinded by animosity. You are spouting nonsense again. You falsely blame God for something that happened. Perhaps you have no knowledge of God. That is why you should be studying the Bible and commentaries on different subjects. You will one day regret if you don't.

Were you asking a serious question? First a medic doesn't kill people unless he is practicing MAID. Accidents and serious illness are not caused by God. I explained that in a posting about an hour or so ago to Aristides. I repeat the answer: "Psalm 46:1 tells us: “He is our refuge and our strength, and a help in time of trouble.” In spite of this reassurance our Christian brothers and sisters die in accidents, or as a result of illness, and many of us have known suffering ourselves. The fact is although God is always with us and standing by to aid us nowhere in Scripture are we promised a life free of pain, suffering and tragedy. In fact the Apostle Peter tells us: "Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you” (I Peter 4:12). During Job’s time, there was a misunderstanding expressed by Job’s friends. They assumed Job somehow deserved what was happening to him as a result of his sins. Jesus Christ also encountered this line of thought when two tragic situations occurred in Judea. In one situation, a number of people from Galilee were killed and their blood mingled with the sacrifices by Pontius Pilate. In another, others were killed when the Tower of Siloam collapsed (Luke 13:1-5). Christ’s point regarding these two incidents was that these people were no worse sinners than anyone else, but that this fate—death—would come to all men and that we must redeem the time and repent while we still can. Apart from time and chance happening to everyone and God deciding to intervene in certain circumstances, there is also the issue that we often suffer the unavoidable consequences of our own unwise behaviour. A modern day example of this would be—you can’t smoke for 50 years and then question why God didn’t protect you from lung cancer. There are consequences to our choices and we ultimately reap what we sow (Galatians 6:7). This is a biblical principle. Satan is the god of this age (II Corinthians 4:4). As such, most of the pain, suffering and tragedy that we see in the world around us today is a direct result of his influence and human beings succumbing to that influence. (You can read more about Satan and his evil demons in the next article in this issue: Is There An Evil Spirit World?) Reading on from 1 Peter 4:12, quoted at the beginning of this article where apostle Peter tells us to expect hardship and trials, we are told how we react to our sufferings is what counts (I Peter 4:13-17). We don’t always understand why God does what He does—why some live and others do not, but we can be assured of the fulfillment of God’s promise that we will see our loved ones again in the wonderful Kingdom of God. (See our free brochure: What Happens After Death?)" Why does God allow Christians to die in accidents? - United Church of God Australia (ucg.org.au)

That's not how God operates. "Psalm 46:1 tells us: “He is our refuge and our strength, and a help in time of trouble.” In spite of this reassurance our Christian brothers and sisters die in accidents, or as a result of illness, and many of us have known suffering ourselves. The fact is although God is always with us and standing by to aid us nowhere in Scripture are we promised a life free of pain, suffering and tragedy. In fact the Apostle Peter tells us: "Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you” (I Peter 4:12). During Job’s time, there was a misunderstanding expressed by Job’s friends. They assumed Job somehow deserved what was happening to him as a result of his sins. Jesus Christ also encountered this line of thought when two tragic situations occurred in Judea. In one situation, a number of people from Galilee were killed and their blood mingled with the sacrifices by Pontius Pilate. In another, others were killed when the Tower of Siloam collapsed (Luke 13:1-5). Christ’s point regarding these two incidents was that these people were no worse sinners than anyone else, but that this fate—death—would come to all men and that we must redeem the time and repent while we still can. Apart from time and chance happening to everyone and God deciding to intervene in certain circumstances, there is also the issue that we often suffer the unavoidable consequences of our own unwise behaviour. A modern day example of this would be—you can’t smoke for 50 years and then question why God didn’t protect you from lung cancer. There are consequences to our choices and we ultimately reap what we sow (Galatians 6:7). This is a biblical principle. Satan is the god of this age (II Corinthians 4:4). As such, most of the pain, suffering and tragedy that we see in the world around us today is a direct result of his influence and human beings succumbing to that influence. (You can read more about Satan and his evil demons in the next article in this issue: Is There An Evil Spirit World?) Reading on from 1 Peter 4:12, quoted at the beginning of this article where apostle Peter tells us to expect hardship and trials, we are told how we react to our sufferings is what counts (I Peter 4:13-17). We don’t always understand why God does what He does—why some live and others do not, but we can be assured of the fulfillment of God’s promise that we will see our loved ones again in the wonderful Kingdom of God. (See our free brochure: What Happens After Death?)" Why does God allow Christians to die in accidents? - United Church of God Australia (ucg.org.au)

Where did I say or suggest doctors and hospital do not save lives all the time? Of course they do. I simply said sometimes, if a patient is brain dead and there is no hope for recovery, hospitals decide, in consultation with close relatives, to disconnect life support systems because there is nothing else they can do for the patient. I don't believe God has it in for someone who is seriously injured in an accident.