MAID in the Great White North: Canadian per Capita Euthanasia Deaths Now Beat U.S. Gun Deaths

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MAID in the Great White North: Canadian per Capita Euthanasia Deaths Now Beat U.S. Gun Deaths – Twitchy

Back in March, Canada added mental illness to its list of MAiD-eligible conditions. What's MAiD? It's Canada's 'Medical Assistance in Dying' program. It was meant to help patients with terminal illnesses die with 'dignity' and now it's devolved into being used to off the poor, Canadian military veterans, the disabled, and the mentally ill.

FIVE PERCENT of Canadian deaths were medically-assisted suicide last year.

The story this writer is reacting to is this one:

She sought help in crisis and was offered MAID instead - BC News - Castanet.net

This spring Mentler found herself in crisis and took herself to Vancouver General Hospital’s Access and Assessment Centre to get help.

“That day my goal was to keep myself safe. I was thinking of maybe trying to get myself admitted to hospital because I was in crisis,” she says.

Mentler says she told the counsellor she was scared she’d “never not feel horrible.” She also disclosed her history of mental illness and self-harm.

Mentler says the counsellor then told her the mental health system was “completely overwhelmed,” that there were “no beds” and that the soonest Mentler could talk with a psychiatrist would be in November. Or she could talk with the on-call psychiatrist, get committed and end up stuck in a holding room, which she wouldn’t be allowed to leave, while she waited for a bed to become available. Mentler says the counsellor told her the whole system was “broken.”

“It was pretty disheartening and made me feel helpless,” Mentler says. “I’m coming here because I’m looking for help and you’re telling me there is no help.”

That’s when the counsellor asked Mentler if she’d ever considered medically assisted suicide.

Just to be crystal clear, I am in favor of people having the choice to commit suicide if they wish.

What concerns me is that this option is being put in front of people at a time when they are extremely weak and emotionally vulnerable. This includes veterans and people with mental health issues.

But because our medical system is broken the system is finding it easier to offer a suicide option rather than treatment

This is pretty horrible