The New York Post released a report on a man who has claimed that his primarily government-funded Canadian hospital, Victoria Hospital Health Services Centre, has pressured him into pursuing physician assisted suicide.
“Canada leads the world in assisted suicides, with 10,064 in 2021 as compared to 7,666 in the Netherlands. Eighty-one percent of global requests for medically-induced deaths were honored in Canada.”
New York Post
Roger Foley is a 47-year old man who suffers from cerebellar ataxia, a disease which attacks the brain and muscles, often causing involuntary movements and can cause speech difficulties. Foley has explained that he has been bedridden for six years, and is in need of constant assistance with basic tasks. Despite this, he does not want to die, he is content living with this illness, and feels he can still have a fulfilling life, which appears to have shocked hospital staff.
“They asked if I want an assisted death. I don’t. I was told that I would be charged $1,800 per day [for hospital care]. I have $2 million worth of bills. Nurses here told me that I should end my life. That shocked me.”
Roger Foley — New York Post
Foley is now suing the hospital as a direct result of the staff encouraging him to essentially give up and die. He told the Post that he has Ontario Health Insurance Plan, (OHIP) which, according to Foley, only covers Ontario Health Insurance Plan “basic medical and emergency services,” and does not assist him with the bills piling up.
‘Mr. Foley was told by hospital staff that he had stayed at the hospital for too long and if he did not receive self-directed funding [from local agencies, covering home care], he should apply for assisted death as an option,’ the lawsuit claims.
“In 2014, his disability became bad enough that he was deemed to be in need of 210 hours of health care per month. But, according to the lawsuit, the care — paid for through a non-profit, government-funded organization — led to him being poisoned from spoiled food and dragged on the floor by workers. Mentally and physically beaten down, he got admitted to Victoria Hospital in February 2016 and has been there ever since.”
New York Post
Physician assisted suicide advocate groups claim that euthanasia gives patients the opportunity to “die with dignity” — though refusal to push through is rarely dignified. Medical assistance in dying (MAID) is expecting to expand early next year to include individuals who suffer from mental illnesses — even minors.
According to Health News, physician assisted suicide is available in 11 US states, and has grown in popularity over the past 15 years, with 10 of the 11 states having passed legislation allowing this barbaric practice in that time.
- Oregon (1994)
- Washington (2008)
- Montana (2009)
- Vermont (2013)
- California (2015)
- Colorado (2016)
- District of Columbia (2016)
- Hawaii (2018)
- Maine (2019)
- New Jersey (2019)
- New Mexico (2021)
What is happening to the medical industry in the western world is nothing short of dystopian. In America, medical students pledge oaths to honor “indigenous ways of healing,” and pledge their alliance to providing affirmative care, which has destroyed the bodies and by default lives of so many individuals around the county. In both America and Canada, doctors, “medical professionals,” who swore to “do no harm” actively destroy innocent life in the womb. This is done by means of lethal injection or literal dismemberment without the use of anesthetics for the fetus — because to administer pain medication to the baby would be to admit that it is a person.
Western medicine has been accused of creating a “culture of death.” Doctors no longer focus on healing, but on medicating and on silencing. In the US, many hospitals have placed a greater emphasis on income from experimental surgeries and lifelong follow-up visits than they have on the well-being of the patient.
