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Disabled Canadian Euthanized Due to Lack of Care

He asked for and received euthanasia explicitly because of a lack of care
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This article is reprinted from National Review with the permission of the author.

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A man with quadriplegia in Canada received such poor care that he developed a huge and painful bed sore. The answer: Lethal injection. From the Global News story:

The 66-year-old man was admitted to a hospital in Saint-Jérôme, just north of Montreal, last January. He was being treated for a respiratory illness.

During his hospital stay, [Normand] Meunier developed a major pressure sore on his buttocks. Moelle épinière et motricité Québec, a group that advocates for people with spinal cord injuries and improved mobility, said the sore exposed muscle around Meunier’s tailbone.

In late March, he received medical assistance in dying to put an end to his suffering.

Compassion.

But Wesley, the man wanted to die!

“It was not his choice. He asked for medical assisted to death as a result of no choice and lack of care,” said Ariane Gauthier-Tremblay, a social worker with the advocacy group.

“We want to make it very clear.”

Quebec’s chief coroner promises an investigation. Don’t expect much to come of it.

Legalized euthanasia is a horror that victimizes the most vulnerable among us. But don’t tell Delaware Democrats, who just pushed through legalized assisted suicide (if the governor signs the bill).

We are becoming Canada in slow motion. But we will get there unless people start to see what is right in front of their eyes.


Wesley J. Smith

Chair and Senior Fellow, Center on Human Exceptionalism
Wesley J. Smith is Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. Wesley is a contributor to National Review and is the author of 14 books, in recent years focusing on human dignity, liberty, and equality. Wesley has been recognized as one of America’s premier public intellectuals on bioethics by National Journal and has been honored by the Human Life Foundation as a “Great Defender of Life” for his work against suicide and euthanasia. Wesley’s most recent book is Culture of Death: The Age of “Do Harm” Medicine, a warning about the dangers to patients of the modern bioethics movement.

Disabled Canadian Euthanized Due to Lack of Care