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Sep 7 • 3 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Wait, Dying with Dignity Canada's entire Disability Advisory Council is just *two* people?

dyingwithdignity.ca/team-member-ty…
One of the people on the advisory council on whether people with only mental illness should qualify for MAID is someone whose professional experience... is answering emails for Dying with Dignity. Oh and having a fellow classmate in her undergrad psych degree with schizophrenia Ruth’s undergraduate degree was in philosophy and psychology. The psychology degree contained a course in abnormal psychology, which included a visit to a nearby mental hospital where the professor had been a director/manager. He arranged for the students to converse with several of the patients. After graduation, Ruth had a closer experience of mental illness when her companion in the Hons-Phil-Psych program developed paranoid schizophrenia. Fortunately, her case was successfully treated with electroconvulsive therapy and oral drugs, which she took regularly. As the person who answers pho...
Okay, wait, I misread that. She actually answered emails for an even smaller pro-MAID advocacy group that clearly doesn't understand copyright law or New Yorker comics New Yorker comic that the Right to Die Society of Canada stole on their website. It shows a rich tycoon being welcomed at the gates of heaven with the caption "I'd like to congratulate you on dying with a lot of dignity."

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Mar 21
Are there problems with Canada and its euthanasia program, the world's largest? Over 140 disability groups and three UN special rapporteurs say yes.

But the @Humanists_UK claims that's all "misinformation": no one died who wasn't supposed to die.

Only problem? It's just bs. 🧵 Accounting for all this, th...
@Humanists_UK should know better. They concede that "the facts surrounding some of the cases featured in the coverage are often hard to verify," leading to their analysis being "difficult to conduct".

That's by design. Police investigations in Canada have also been stonewalled Alicia Duncan's testimony ...
Instead, by ignoring most of the evidence, the British humanists decided that "we don’t believe that anyone in Canada has had an assisted death who shouldn’t have been able to."

So if facts are intentionally obscured, no worries, that means they don't exist?
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Jan 29
SCOOP: The Alzheimer's Association promises that it is "committed to transparency" with its partners.

So why is it hiding its new partnership on "historically underserved communities" with America's leading assisted suicide lobby?

freebeacon.com/latest-news/al… "Our Commitment to Transparency: With our broad partne
It's a bizarre match. The title of an op-ed by the CEO of Compassion & Choices called dementia "a fate worse than death".

After this article came out, Compassion & Choices quickly changed the title... but not everywhere. A Google search for "A Fate Worse than Death" Op-ed on C&C's website describing "A Fate Worse than DeNow the title is "Living with advanced dementia"The original title on IllinoisTimes is "A fate worse th
I suspect the backpedaling won't stop there. The new partnership wasn't announced on the Alzheimer's Association's website.

Maybe the reason is that if you want to improve "end-of-life care" to Black Americans, you would partner with a palliative association, not a lobby group
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Jan 4
What I still can't understand about euthanasia in Canada is the reality of it.

Mary wants to live. "She has no other options"--in part because she's been maxing out her credit cards.
This is what MAiD providers in Canada heard in their own training seminar. This is the exact situation they said that doesn't exist.
CAMAP finally issued a press release right before Christmas. Want to know what they said? It's a doozy.

They said that "Health care colleagues in Canada and worldwide share the common values that are identified
in... the World Health Organization"

camapcanada.ca/wp-content/upl…
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Dec 22, 2022
Leon Kass in @firstthingsmag in 1996: "Physician-assisted suicide, once legal, will not stay confined to the terminally ill and mentally competent who freely and knowingly elect it for themselves. Requests will be engineered and choices manipulated
firstthings.com/article/1996/0…
@firstthingsmag by those who control the information, and, manipulation aside, many elderly and incurable people will experience a right to choose death as their duty to do so. Moreover, the vast majority of those who are said to “merit” “a humane and dignified death” do not fall in
this category and cannot request it for themselves. Persons with mental illness or Alzheimer’s disease, deformed infants, and retarded or dying children would thus be denied our new humane “aid-in-dying.” But not to worry.
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Dec 16, 2022
What's going on with Canada's MAiD program? Let's ask the physicians in charge.

This piece took a long time to report. I interviewed 50+ people. I went over two years of training seminars. And it turns out, MAiD in Canada is seriously flawed thenewatlantis.com/publications/n…
Stefanie Green is the president of CAMAP, Canada's leading organization of MAiD providers and assessors. She told me that no one is accessing MAiD because of a lack of housing--or poverty, or lack of medical care.
But her own organization presented multiple seminars on exactly that. In April and May of 2021, and April of 2022, CAMAP held seminars and panels on MAiD being provided because of a "lack of resources".
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