tomder55
Aug 24, 2022, 05:06 AM
You hear horror stories about VA and the way US vets are treated .
Canada is trying to one up them
A Canadian Forces veteran seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury was shocked when he was unexpectedly and casually offered medical assistance in dying by a Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) employee….
Sources say a VAC service agent brought up medical assistance in dying, or MAID, unprompted in the conversation with the veteran.
Veterans Affairs says worker ‘inappropriately’ discussed medically assisted death with veteran - National | Globalnews.ca (https://globalnews.ca/news/9061709/veteran-medical-assisted-death-canada/)
But vets aren't the only target of this new Canadian rage
The people with brain illness are also in the cross hairs .
'Put to death': Canada's too-permissive euthanasia laws a threat to the disabled, experts say | National Post (https://nationalpost.com/news/experts-see-canadas-euthanasia-laws-as-threat-to-disabled)
To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society. (Nietzsche)
Never again’ is, by itself, never good enough — because there’s always an argument, the next time, about whether the new evil is the same thing we’ve sworn to never tolerate again. The injustice always reappears in a different form. The very parade of self-condemnation of the elaborate distancing of ourselves from the injustice of the past — by which we think we guarantee our innocence — can itself become the occasion, or even the excuse, for the next injustice.
American Literature: Our Own Neglected Canon (catholiceducation.org) (https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/art/american-literature-our-own-neglected-canon.html)
Canada is trying to one up them
A Canadian Forces veteran seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and a traumatic brain injury was shocked when he was unexpectedly and casually offered medical assistance in dying by a Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) employee….
Sources say a VAC service agent brought up medical assistance in dying, or MAID, unprompted in the conversation with the veteran.
Veterans Affairs says worker ‘inappropriately’ discussed medically assisted death with veteran - National | Globalnews.ca (https://globalnews.ca/news/9061709/veteran-medical-assisted-death-canada/)
But vets aren't the only target of this new Canadian rage
The people with brain illness are also in the cross hairs .
'Put to death': Canada's too-permissive euthanasia laws a threat to the disabled, experts say | National Post (https://nationalpost.com/news/experts-see-canadas-euthanasia-laws-as-threat-to-disabled)
To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society. (Nietzsche)
Never again’ is, by itself, never good enough — because there’s always an argument, the next time, about whether the new evil is the same thing we’ve sworn to never tolerate again. The injustice always reappears in a different form. The very parade of self-condemnation of the elaborate distancing of ourselves from the injustice of the past — by which we think we guarantee our innocence — can itself become the occasion, or even the excuse, for the next injustice.
American Literature: Our Own Neglected Canon (catholiceducation.org) (https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/art/american-literature-our-own-neglected-canon.html)