And that isn’t the worst part.
Canada has apparently lost control of its state-sanctioned murder known as Medical Assistance in Dying, which is the second funniest way to describe euthanasia.
A fact introduced into Canadian life when the Supreme Court flinched at the idea that people are supposed to be alive, MAID has so rapidly involved itself into Canadian life that even other pro-suicide nihilists masquerading as governments are saying, “Whoa, shit, do you guys want us to send you the number for a suicide hotline or something?” If the current rate of MAID growth keeps up, by 2035 fully 10% of Canadian deaths per year will be by lethally administered drugs done by physicians.
Spare me the Hippocratic invocations that reveal your ignorance, and let go of your emotional reaction to that statistic, good or bad. If I said to you that in Japan, 10% of people volunteered to die, you would immediately think, “What the fuck is going on in Japan? What is wrong with the Japanese?”
When something increases in society, we almost always try to figure out what caused the increase – inflation, heart disease, alcoholism, pride flag crosswalks, etc. Whether you think these things are good or bad, you want to know why it increased, with the hope of either stopping something (say, pancreatic cancer), or repeating something (alcoholism). We often know immediately whether the thing is good or bad.
Now, don’t think, just react: suicide. Good or bad? No, your mealy-mouthed “Welllll” is a dodge. You know the answer to this.
Unfortunately, Canada thinks you’re too much of a pussy to kill yourself, so it has decided to offer itself as a provider of murder-for-hire that it disguises as your choice, but it isn’t your choice, it is your fate.
So what’s worse than a murderous state?
You want the state to murder you.
I’ve been angry for years at the nature of MAID in Canada, and borderline depressive/alcoholic over the expansion into mental health. But I finally realized that the problem isn’t Canada. It’s Canadians.
Above, way back in paragraph II, I suggested Canada had apparently lost control of MAID. I chose ‘apparently’ very deliberately, as I realized that I am stupid. MAID’s sprawl into efficient death for the elderly, mentally ill, minors, people with acne, etc., isn’t a loss of control – it is the exact point of the system. Canada thinks you’re too much of a pussy to kill yourself and Canada is right.
Nobly, and remarkably, the Canadian healthcare system, which can deliver nothing in a timely or effective fashion, took on the task of killing its patients (with consent!) and won plaudits for doing so. How could this come to be? You want to die, but you have lingering moral sentiments that you couldn’t quite exterminate through your lazy, intentional lack-of-knowledge constructed to free you from almost all moral culpability, so you had to outsource the responsibility. You might die with guilt if you hang yourself, but you can always give yourself plausible deniability if the state shoots you up with pentobarbital. NB: I do not care if they are not using pentobarbital, and neither do you.
Frequently, proponents latch onto the rationalist argument of bodily autonomy. But it is essential to understand: this is exactly the opposite of what they believe. If they believed that they had complete control of their body, that they could do ‘whatever they want’ with it, then jumping off of a bridge, hanging themselves in their child’s closet, or blowing their brains out on a livestream would all be options. It is the very fact that they want a doctor’s permission to kill themselves that reveals they absolutely do not have autonomy, and what’s worse, they do not want it. They want the responsibility taken far, far away. Nothing brings suicide rates down like having to contemplate killing yourself.