Dear Editor:
Humankind has one true equality; not in ability, ambition, wealth, resources, background or appearance, but in worth.
We bear equality in value, bestowed on us by the unearned virtue of our humanity alone. All of our rights rest on this principle. All civilization is founded on this one pillar.
All butchery and abuse are founded on its rejection.
Therefore, I now raise to your attention an imminent danger within the coming months: Come March, 2024, the Medical Assistance in Dying program (MAiD) may expand so that those with mental illness may choose euthanasia. (This has been delayed for now by Parliament Mon. Jan. 29 stating the health systems were not yet ready.)
Our government will prescribe death for depression.
Victims of mental illness are in a warped frame of mind. It darkens and twists one’s view of themselves and the world.
The mentally ill must be offered help, not death. They are not in the right frame of mind. Suicide is a tragedy, only because we all know that it is not the answer.
How does our government justify this absurd “solution”? When selecting only reasonable answers, it is as much of a mystery to me as the question of how they reconcile this with their conscience.
Yet, the conscience is not immune to the pacifications of bribery and salvaged pride: Our government could save anywhere from $34.7 million to $138.8 million in health care spending with an expansion of MAiD.
Our government benefits from the suicide of our fellow Canadians. They benefit from the distorted desire for, and eventual death of, our parents, children, family, friends and neighbours.
Be assured: none of their family members will struggle to find access to the adequate mental health assistance— true assistance —that the majority of us lack.
Not only this, but it is an easy solution—cheating—to their dismal failure regarding mental health (if the mentally ill die, the numbers dwindle and the mental health crisis is cured—you see how it works).
It yet again proves our government to be led by hypocrites and liars.
During Mental Health Week in 2022, PM Justin Trudeau stated that …. mental health challenges affect many of us, yet these issues are often treated differently than physical health. No one should ever suffer in silence, and by being open with others, we can help break down the stigma surrounding mental health and ensure people seek the care they need….Together, we will end the stigma that surrounds mental health issues, and build a better future for everyone.
Do these sound like the words of a man in favour of euthanasia for the mentally ill and struggling?
The very idea of expanding MAiD to the mentally vulnerable implies that life is only to be protected when it is easy. It is a vile notion.
In the Netherlands, children as young as 12 years old are able to request euthanasia. By the age of 16, they no longer need parental consent. What sort of monstrous person would consent to their child’s death to begin with?
Know this: If Canadians do not take a stand against death for the mentally ill, it will find us on our doorsteps. It will find us in our homes. It will find our children, our nieces and nephews, our grandchildren and grandparents, our mothers and fathers.
Eventually, we too will be notified of the euthanasia of our children by a “sympathetic” stranger who did nothing to stop it.
For those who scoff, “That will never happen here!”, what makes you think that this is the last expansion that the government will chase?
What makes you so certain that they will not push, push, push, until shrugging at the proposition is all you can do?
Turn to the history books! Tyranny stands on the shrugs of the apathetic and behind the scoffing of fools.
Any government that benefits from the death of the people it is suppose to serve must be resisted. I do not speak of armed resistance! I speak of resistance founded on a faith in the democratic process.
Resist by writing to your MPs, whose contact information you may find online; resist by organizing and attending civil protests; resist by spreading the word; resist by petitioning; resist by voting whenever you have the chance.
We should — we must — fear any government that benefits from the expansion of such a program, that resolves its own mistakes at the cost of human life.
Now, I ask, do you imagine that any healthy government would propose such a thing?
Consider this math question, taken from Nazi Germany: “The construction of a lunatic asylum costs six million marks. How many houses at 15,000 marks each could have been built for that amount?”
You may rightly assume that the intention was to rationalize the euthanasia of said “lunatics”.
(If you would like to know more about the trajectory of such a question, research Aktion T4 — a euthanasia program.
I am not equating the Liberal government with the Nazis. This last note is here purely for curiosity’s sake).
Fight against it! Oppose it, because lives are truly at stake. Is this the precedent that you are willing to take part in setting? My fellow Canadians, you will play a role in setting what you do not oppose.
MAiD is controversial because it is so obviously dangerous. All it takes is a few further expansions and one bad government.
People are worried about this expansion because it lends itself to the depraved goals of the tyrannically minded.
Mark my words: Whether it be in or beyond our own lifetimes, a government’s hand in the field of life and death will prove fatal to all Canadian society.
Canada stands, however precariously, on the value of human life. That is our first right — and like all rights, we have it, not because our current government allows it, but because all human beings hold worth as human beings.
A good government protects and serves that principle.
A depraved government disregards our rights as it sees fit.
Just because the government seeks it, does not make it right.
Do you want Canada to be the nation that offers euthanasia for its mentally ill and vulnerable? Do you want Canada to hold such an ugly and shameful reputation?
If we are to establish Canada as a nation that believes in the inherent value, dignity and beauty of human life, we must consider whether or not “dignity”, via euthanasia, is worth the dark and terrifying possibility of its consequences. All it takes is one rotten government.
Is “dignity in death” for a few, worth the lives of many? I entreat you: Unless you are reconciled with the vision of Canada as a nation that prescribes death for depression, resist for the sake of your neighbours, your friends, your children, your family, yourself, and the nation as a whole.
Distribute this message and spread the word, whether it be by social media, producing (unchanged) copies, or in person. A nation is defined by how it treats its most vulnerable members.
Lives depend on your opposition or your complacency.
Morrigan Geleynse
Tees, Alta.
