The homeless man's application was granted. He didn't simply change his mind, an internet campaign raised $60,000 dollars to get him straight. He was days away from being put to sleep through the canadian MAID system. Now he absolutely fine and living a fulfilling life.
You didn't mention the girl who lost her mom who suffered with mental health issues, killed without even a consultation with her GP or her family.
My own opinion is that for people who are suffering, and with a limited time left, then they should be granted a dignified and painless death. My point is that this is how the bill got passed in Canada, and it has since gone beyond that criteria. That really does concern me.
I was being facetious to show how easy it is to give something of importance a different spin from the facts purely by deliberate and subtle omissions.
In Amir's own words:
"My name is Amir. I am 55 years old and live in Canada. I suffer from a number of physical and emotional ailments.
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I have 24/7 pain due to severe spinal stenosis, degenerative disc disease, osteoarthritis, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), panic anxiety disorder, depression, pretty severe asthma (I need three different inhalers to breathe) and early stages of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
"I made a formal, written request to my doctor, who, a
fter failing to talk me out of it, eventually (and reluctantly) signed off on it. As someone who is considered “tier 2” (someone whose death is not imminent or reasonably foreseeable), I needed to wait for a mandatory 90 days before getting the required second sign-off before being able to access MAID.
"Unfortunately, instead of focusing the debate on how people in that position need help surviving, it seems
my story has been hijacked by people trying to deflect from the real debate, by creating a needless one about the merits of MAiD – and its accessibility (and coming expansion) to people who are not in the terminal stages of a disease.
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I hope people don’t get distracted by this pointless, disingenuous debate. The real issue isn’t whether or not someone like me should be able to access MAID. It’s whether or not we, as a society, wish to continue making people’s lives miserable and hopeless enough that
suicide – assisted or otherwise – becomes a viable option. Or whether we are willing to choose to take steps that would make these people’s lives bearable enough that they won’t need to."
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'I did tell my doctor right off the bat that while I qualify for medical reasons, the reason I'm asking is my socio economic position at the moment."
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So he wasn't approved because he was homeless. He met the medical criteria for MAID and it didn't factor into the medical determination and assessment made on him.
To be anal, because I am lol, he was provisionally approved only. He got the lifeline ahead of the mandatory 90 day period expiring, wherein he could've still been denied in any event. So it's a misnomer to suggest he was days or hours away from being euthanised (the implication) as the full process had not yet been completed anyway.
And no, he's not absolutely fine, and he could change his mind, but he won't be provisionally approved for a second time on the basis of him not being homeless either.
You didn't mention the girl who lost her mom who suffered with mental health issues, killed without even a consultation with her GP or her family.
The Hertgers? Duncan?
In any case, right to privacy, medical history and decisions are privileged information - that's a basic tenet of the law, there is no obligation or requirement to inform family, friends and total strangers.
That's not on Canada, nor the Doctors - that's on the individual for not having a conversation. Harsh as it sounds it is as simple as that.
The GP is equally irrelevant. You don't apply to a GP (unless you want to), you apply straight to a physician in hospital if you prefer.
We've already covered 'mental health' provisions, so it wouldn't have been that, even if that's what the family focus on in the grief, and it's understandably blinding them thinking they needed to be consulted or a GP was needed.
As for changing mind, your views mate, not for me to debate that, I'm talking Chinese whispers as I said myself there are issues but they aren't being addressed.
Because it hasn't gone beyond terminal or severe chronic pain.
Everything else is mud at wall scaremongering in Canada.
Anyway - time for walkies.
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