Elderly Canadian citizens are being pressured into signing up for the government’s euthanasia program in order to reduce the financial burden on the nation’s socialized healthcare system.
One senior-aged Canadian couple has said that a hospice care center tried to make them feel guilty for seeking treatments for their treatable conditions.
Doctors reportedly told the couple that treating their conditions was absolutely possible but it would be expensive.
However, the patients were sure they would be able to afford to pay for the treatments on their fixed income.
Once it was suggested that the couple may need to utilize the state-funded healthcare system, the doctors quickly changed their tune and started pushing the government’s cheaper “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAiD) program instead of expensive treatments.
The doctors insisted that euthanasia would be the best option as they were facing increased care costs they could not afford on their fixed income.
71-year-old Fred Sandeski from Saskatchewan suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) along with a host of other ailments such as diabetes and epilepsy.
His wife Teresa also has failing health.
They say the idea of being killed by the government’s euthanasia program was aggressively pushed onto them when they realized they would not be able to cover the costs associated with increased care at a hospice center.
According to the Epoch Times, when Fred started with palliative care, “they were just listing us the availability of what options they had for us,” and MAiD was presented as “one option.”
Thankfully, Sandeski refused MAiD, saying, “I really, really believe that the Lord has put me on this Earth for a reason, and he’s not going to let me go until I’m done.”
Sandeski’s plight was brought to the attention of the provincial government of Saskatchewan by the opposition New Democratic Party’s shadow minister for seniors, Keith Jorgenson.
Jorgenson encouraged Saskatchewan Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill to help the couple.
In response, Cockrill said that he had reached out to the Sandeskis and would “find a solution that’s going to work for Fred and Theresa this week.”
He added that when it comes to the care home having offered them MAiD as a solution to their plight, he would “hope that any health care professional in this province, having those discussions with a patient has a strong understanding of the patient’s health and familial context.”
Unfortunately, instances of people being railroaded into euthanasia as a “solution” to their health issues have become commonplace in Canada.
Most Canadians now fear the nation’s euthanasia regime unfairly targets those who are financially and socially vulnerable while still supporting the immoral practice in general.
However, some provincial governments are looking at fighting back against Canada’s federal expansion of legal assisted suicide under Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Recently, the United Conservative government of Alberta said it would push back against the Canadian federal government’s continued desire to expand euthanasia in the nation.
Officials announced the Alberta government will be launching a review of the legislation and policies surrounding the grim practice, which will include a period of public engagement.
Under Trudeau, whose government legalized MAiD in 2016, the deadly program has continued to relax who is eligible for death.
In 2021, the program expanded from killing only terminally ill patients to allowing the chronically ill to qualify.
Since then, the government has been pushing to include those suffering solely from mental illness.
The number of Canadians killed by lethal injection under the nation’s MAiD program since 2016 stands at close to 65,000.
Euthanasia caused an estimated 16,000 deaths in 2023 alone.
Many fear that because the official statistics are manipulated the number may be even higher.
Canada had approximately 15,280 euthanasia deaths in 2023.
The figure accounts for almost 5 percent of the nation’s total deaths.
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