{"id":82545,"date":"2026-04-30T17:13:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82545"},"modified":"2026-04-30T17:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:13:35","slug":"one-in-twenty-canadians-now-killed-by-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/one-in-twenty-canadians-now-killed-by-assisted-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"One In Twenty Canadians Now Killed By Assisted Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Mail:<\/em><\/p>\n

The Canadian\u2019s elderly mother, Rita Busby, came dangerously close to being euthanized over a single sentence.<\/p>\n

Her mom, who was active and independent in spite of her 93 years, ended up in the hospital after accidentally overdosing on a drug she was prescribed. Drowsy and not thinking straight, Busby had made an offhand comment to one of the nurses that she \u201cwanted to die.\u201d Hospital workers took her at her word.<\/p>\n

Next, a Canadian government psychologist pulled Fisher aside to let her know they were preparing to euthanize her mother, a devout Catholic and lifelong Blue Jays fan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was terrified. I couldn\u2019t believe what was happening. They talked to me like I was putting a dog down,\u201d Fisher, 71, told me from her home in Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n

Luckily Fisher and her mom were prepared, as Busby had signed over Power of Attorney to her daughter. Now she and others in Canada \u2014 which legalized PAS a decade ago \u2014 are\u00a0warning the Empire State\u00a0<\/a>of the \u201cslippery slope\u201d into a culture of coercive death which may be headed their way.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom wanted to die, she didn\u2019t want to be killed!\u201d Fisher said. \u201cIf I hadn\u2019t been there, and she hadn\u2019t signed over Power of Attorney, who knows what would have happened\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a narrow escape and Rita lived for six more months \u2014 during that time she went bowling and to baseball games, attended a family reunion and mended strained relationships before dying naturally at home in 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople don\u2019t understand there\u2019s a lot of things that go on behind the scenes [in hospitals] when there\u2019s no one there to protect them,\u201d said Fisher.<\/p>\n

In the last ten years, an estimated 100,000 Canadians have been euthanized by their government \u2014 about\u00a0one in 20 deaths<\/a>\u00a0in the country in 2024 alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just opened Pandora\u2019s Box and the slippery slope will get very steep very fast,\u201d Heather Hancock, 58, of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and who suffers from cerebral palsy, told me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is eugenics and this is genocide against the [disadvantaged],\u201d she claimed.<\/p>\n

Hancock is no stranger to death-pushers. She\u2019s lost count of the number of times Canadian doctors have tried to\u00a0coerce her into killing herself<\/a>, she claimed, through Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAiD \u2014the title given to their PAS program.<\/p>\n

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