{"id":134437,"date":"2022-12-06T07:15:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T12:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=134437"},"modified":"2022-12-05T18:08:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T23:08:31","slug":"canadian-va-official-offers-assisted-suicide-to-canadian-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=134437","title":{"rendered":"Canadian VA official offers assisted suicide to Canadian veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christine Gauthier, 52, served in the Canadian Military, and also competed for Canada at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. She put in a request to have a wheelchair lift installed in her home. She subsequently received a response from a VA (Canada) official who offered her a medically-assisted suicide kit. This was not the first time that this VA official made this kind of offer. Medically-assisted suicide has been offered in Canada since 2016.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Christine Gauthier, a 52-year-old retired corporal who competed in the 2016 Paralympics at Rio De Janeiro, testified to lawmakers that a VA official had offered \u2014 in writing \u2014 to provide her with a medically-assisted suicide kit. The case officer remains unnamed but reportedly made similar offers to at least three other veterans, according to the Independent.<\/p>\n

“I have a letter saying that if you\u2019re so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAID, medical assistance in dying,” Gauthier said in a hearing before the House of Commons veterans affairs committee.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the incident in a public statement on Friday after Gauthier said she personally wrote him a letter on the issue.<\/p>\n

“We are following up with investigations and we are changing protocols to ensure what should seem obvious to all of us: that it is not the place of Veterans Affairs Canada, who are supposed to be there to support those people who stepped up to serve their country, to offer them medical assistance in dying,” Trudeau said.<\/p>\n

Canada first approved medically-assisted suicide in 2016, and the parameters around allowing it have since loosened. The law originally legalized assisted suicide only for those facing imminent death, but it now also includes those who suffered severe pain or disabilities, according to the Independent.<\/p>\n

Gauthier’s story comes just weeks after a Canadian fashion company glorified assisted suicide in a commercial.<\/p>\n

Canadian fashion company La Maison Simons promoted the “beauty” in voluntary euthanasia in a promotional video titled “All is Beauty.” The ad includes a voiceover from Jennyfer Hatch, a 37-year-old Canadian woman who voluntarily euthanized herself after suffering from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.<\/p>\n

“Last breaths are sacred. Even though as I seek help to end my life, with all the pain and in these final moments, there is still so much beauty,” Hatch says in the Simons video.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has the rest of the story<\/a>. Thanks to Amateur Historian for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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