Secret Euthanasia Practiced in Canada

Hospitals in Canada are routinely causing premature death in elderly and infirm patients, probably in a desire to free up beds, or in the alternative to reduce health care costs at the end of life. This is, in fact, contrary to the Criminal Code (section 215), because there is a duty to provide necessaries of life.

Recently in the United Kingdom, a prominent doctor has revealed that approximately 170,000 people under the National Health Service have been prematurely euthanized using something called the “Liverpool Care Path,” which is the withholding of food and water, resulting in death within approximately three days. The necessaries of life include food and water.

In circumstances of which I am aware, an elderly patient who had suffered a stroke signified to his friends that he wished to receive food and water. The friends brought water and Ensure, a liquid food supplement which he eagerly accepted and drank. The hospital authorities refused to allow the friends readmission to see the patient and he was denied intravenous and his friends were told he was not allowed to have food or water. He died shortly thereafter. The friends, including a Power of Attorney, were prevented from visiting this friend during this period because a near relative was alleged to be in charge of determining what degree of medical care he would receive.

In my view at least, regardless of any relative, friend, Power of Attorney, or anyone else, the necessaries of life cannot be withheld from a person willing and able to receive them. In this case, it would appear that was the only inference that I personally could observe from the facts of which I was informed. Similar troubling circumstances are now being brought to my attention in a hospital in Ontario, where even a wife with a Power of Attorney is being denied access to her husband.

Somewhere along the line it appears that the authorities in charge of hospitals are taking steps to accomplish the premature death of people, who although in the end death may be inevitable for them, and indeed for all of us at some point, would not have happened but for the intervention of this form of care, which in my view at least is not care at all but deliberate euthanasia.

With abortion being generally recognized, and people demanding the right to have “assisted suicide,” I hope the difference between assisted suicide and euthanasia does not become obscured so that hospitals and health care professionals take in upon themselves to decide who “wants to die,” and terminate their lives at a more and more rapid pace to eliminate troublesome people and perhaps those who are near death anyway. I believe in the right of natural death and the end of life being the result not of withholding of necessaries, but the natural consequence of the divine plan for the life of man, which does not involve anyone withholding food and water from another living human being who wants it.

I’m extremely troubled by the information that I’ve been provided and post this blog in the hope that it will stimulate discussion on what I think at the moment is a tacit and somewhat secret program, all too frequently reported to me at least by people who are intimately involved with their loved ones. I have no doubt that if this trend continues unimpeded, the “Liverpool Care Path” will be one upon which more and more baby boomers are going to be delivered or pushed depending on how you look at it.