Canadian Man Euthanized for ‘Hearing Loss’

A Canadian man has been euthanized by health officials after being hospitalized for “hearing loss,” according to reports.

61-year-old Alan Nichols was hospitalized in June of 2019 after problems with his hearings had led to depression and caused fears he may have been suicidal, the Associated Press reported.

However, shortly after Nichols arrived at the facility, he reportedly texted his brother, pleading with him to “bust him out.”

Just one month later, Nichols was dead after he had been euthanized by health officials.

The reason on his application document for “assisted suicide” is listed as “hearing loss.”

Now, his outraged family is demanding answers.

After learning of Mr. Nichols’ death, his family went to the police.

But authorities ruled that his euthanasia was justified, despite a euthanasia assessment filed by a nurse practitioner noting seizures, frailty, and “a failure to thrive.”

That explanation wasn’t good enough for Nichols’ family.

The family argues that with his history of mental illness, he couldn’t have truly understood the issue and that he wasn’t suffering.

“Alan was basically put to death,” his brother Gary Nichols said.

Experts are warning that this is an increasing problem within the country facing people with disabilities.

People with disabilities are at serious risk of being euthanized, a threat made even worse considering they routinely do not have access to basic health care and other needs.

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Catalina Devandas Aguilar, a lawyer from Costa Rica and the United Nation’s first Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, wrote a scathing report on disability rights in Canada.

“Persons with disabilities have to initiate very lengthy and onerous legal procedures to get their rights recognized,” she told CTV.

“[D]uring my visit I have noticed that discussions about the rights of persons with disabilities are still framed in terms of social assistance, rather than from a human rights-based approach…

“I have also noted significant disparities in the areas of accessibility and access to education, health, administration of justice, and social protection depending on where a person with disabilities lives in Canada.”

She also found numerous cases of people with disabilities pressured into assisted suicide.

“I have been informed that there is no protocol in place to demonstrate that persons with disabilities have been provided with viable alternatives when eligible for assistive dying,” she said.

“I have further received worrisome claims about persons with disabilities in institutions being pressured to seek medical assistance in dying, and practitioners not formally reporting cases involving persons with disabilities.”

Assisted suicide routinely harms the most vulnerable people in society: the elderly, the disabled, the poor, and other minority groups.

These groups routinely plead with lawmakers not to inflict assisted suicide on their communities, and they are consistently ignored.

Canada is another example of just that — as people with disabilities are dying needlessly in greater and greater numbers, the country is not moving away from assisted suicide.

Instead, the country looking to expand it even further.

As Slay News previously reported, Canada is due to soon expand its euthanasia laws to include “mature” children and mentally ill patients.

READ MORE: Canada’s Euthanasia Laws Expand to ‘Mature’ Children, Mentally Ill

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By Frank Bergman

Frank Bergman is a political/economic journalist living on the east coast. Aside from news reporting, Bergman also conducts interviews with researchers and material experts and investigates influential individuals and organizations in the sociopolitical world.

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