A new video out of Canada shows once again the harm that assisted suicide and euthanasia cause.
In the U.S., Oregon first allowed physician-assisted suicide in 1998, and since then official state reports have shown again and again that terminally-ill patients received lethal prescriptions for assisted-suicide without being referred for psychological or psychiatric evaluation.
Many of these patients are lonely and feel like they are losing control over their lives because of their illness. They need counseling and support — not a prescription for poisonous drugs.
The situation arguably is worse in Canada, where a man with ALS made headlines in 2019 after he opted to take his own life under the country’s assisted suicide and euthanasia laws after the government chose not to provide him with 24-hour home healthcare services due to costs.
In 2023 a judge authorized a 27-year-old Canadian woman to end her life even though she did not suffer from a terminal ailment. She simply had autism.
In a new video interview with Amanda Achtman from Dying to Meet You, Christopher Lyon tells how his father was euthanized under Canada’s “medical aid in dying” laws, and he discusses the devastation that assisted suicide causes.
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