—First, Ross Douthat. What Euthanasia Has Done to Canada.

And: Yuan Yi Zhu: “Since last year, Canadian law, in all its majesty, has allowed both the rich as well as the poor to kill themselves if they are too poor to continue living with dignity. In fact, the ever-generous Canadian state will even pay for their deaths. What it will not do is spend money to allow them to live instead of killing themselves…As with most slippery slopes, it all began with a strongly worded denial that it exists…

It only took five years for the proverbial slope to come into view, when the Canadian parliament enacted Bill C-7, a sweeping euthanasia law which repealed the ‘reasonably foreseeable’ requirement – and the requirement that the condition should be ‘terminal’. Now, as long as someone is suffering from an illness or disability which ‘cannot be relieved under conditions that you consider acceptable’, they can take advantage of what is now known euphemistically as ‘medical assistance in dying’ (MAID for short) for free.

Soon enough, Canadians from across the country discovered that although they would otherwise prefer to live, they were too poor to improve their conditions to a degree which was acceptable…

Read it all…

Yuan Yi Zhu is a Senior Research Fellow at Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project and a researcher based at Nuffield College, Oxford.

We need to urgently pray for Canada, for the people, for the mentally and physically sick there. Canada is putting greed, money, over the sick and calling it compassion.

— Canada: Euthanasia and assisted suicide to be permitted on the grounds of mental illness

— Becoming poor a sufficient reason in Canada?

Matt:24: ¹² Jesus said, “Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of many will grow cold”

And So today The Rich Man, instead of showing compassion and help, lets Lazarus die.

— Man as the Image of God?