https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/medical-assistance-dying.htmlhttps://archive.ph/lfnHKIt was only 7 years ago in 2015 that Canada's supreme court made medically assisted suicide legal, and 2017 was the first year with less than 3000 takers, only 34 of them under the age of 45. Now the figures are rising to 3x that in each category, and Canada is seeking to expand its euthanasia program to include youth (not in asia). Come this March, the Canadian government (same one that crushed peaceful protests with martial law) is going to legalize euthanasia for 'mature minors' and the mentally ill. There's no federal definition for 'mature minors', not some Canadian emancipation threshold, and the program would require no parental consent or notification. Nor would it be reserved for cases of terminal illnesses, but allowed for cases of 'incurable depression'. The original 2015 court mandated that assisted suicide only apply for illnesses with "reasonably foreseeable deaths", but like all slippery slopes that rolled away within a few years and was amended by the government last year to the much lower criterion of showing a condition is 'intolerable to them' and 'could not be relieved under conditions they consider acceptable'. In other words, a physically healthy 15 year old could apply for an assisted suicide on grounds of being depressed.
An example case is the 23 year old Kiano Vafaeian, who was depressed for being diabetic, losing sight in one eye and having neither a job nor girlfriend. His condition wasn't terminal, and he had every opportunity to turn his life around if he put his mind to it, but was able to apply and be granted a medically assisted suicide in September. He was scheduled to die and the doctor lined up to abort his life 23 years too late, but his mother and sister managed to find out by sneaking onto his emails and had their story picked up by a catholic magazine, at which point the doctor scrubbed it;
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Kiano said his parents insisted on speaking to his doctors and were not happy with the answers they were getting, and he believes that his refusal to allow them to speak with “the MAiD doctor who was going to administer the IV” frustrated them to the extent that they decided “to start social media campaigns, take matters into their own hands.”
On September 21, at 10 PM, Kiano said, his doctor phoned. He told the young man about all the hostile messages he had received thanks to his mother’s social media campaign and said that he was going to resign from his “care plan” and find the young man another “assessor” unless his mother relented.
“He said that there’s still a second assessor on board, and I’m going to have to find another assessor unless your mother decides to apologize, write, and promises to stop all social media campaigns as well as not take any legal action towards the doctor if and when Kiano decides to be euthanized,” Kiano told LifeSiteNews.
Marsilla, however, made it clear to both her son and the doctor that she would not even think of writing such a letter. Thus, Kiano tried to find someone else to support his euthanasia bid but, he said, was turned down by the “the central intake team.”
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The family say they believed there was “no way” Kiano would be approved for MAiD for having diabetes. Also, it is not yet legal to be accepted for MAiD for mental health issues.
That was a 23 year old with an actually debilitating medical condition, albeit a non-terminal one. Come this next year, the door will be open for angsty 15 year olds for cause of depression alone.