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Man shocked by rapid approval and execution of father's MAiD death
A Canadian man recently shared that his father's death via Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program moved rapidly, and that the entire program is "way past inappropriate."
Eric Edmeades told Fox News that when his father requested MAiD, they thought it would take months for the process to play out.
Instead, his father was killed via MAiD within a matter of weeks.
Edmeades now believes MAiD has become 'inappropriate,' as people are approved for death without having serious, terminal illnesses, and the process moves rapidly.
A past Canadian government report noted how much money is saved when people are killed via assisted suicide and euthanasia instead of receiving treatment for their conditions.
Eric Edmeades, founder of Speaker Nation, told Fox News Digital that his father, Baz, had been living with medical issues and was in his late 70s when his health began to decline in 2023. That's when the topic of MAiD was mentioned. It was January 2024 when he and his family began to seriously consider MAiD for Baz.
"When the lockdowns came along, and he could no longer go out and walk all the time, it really had a marked decrease in his physical ability and his sense of freedom and all that kind of stuff," said Edmeades. "And then there just came this point where life started sounding pointless to him."
Based on what the family knew, they believed it would take six months for MAiD to be approved and carried out.
Edmeades and his wife planned a trip to visit Baz and thought they would have another opportunity to see him again, but Baz's death was approved very quickly. They did not have the months they thought they did.
"And then, all of a sudden, it was like, ‘No, it's next week,’" Edmeades recalled.
Baz died on February 27, 2024, via MAiD.
"And one of the things I'm incredibly grateful for is that I had incidentally booked a trip out to Vancouver, and my wife and I got to spend time with him," said Edmeades.
Edmeades may not have been worried about the timeline when the process began, but ultimately, he said it all "happened so quickly that I only really started to piece together what happened when it was done."
His brother, however, openly opposed their father's plan to end his life by MAiD.
The speed at which Baz received approval for MAiD and died as a result left Edmeades questioning whether MAiD has sufficient safeguards.
"What I see happening in Canada is way past appropriate," he said.
He added:
"If I had to press a button and decide whether the MAiD program existed or didn't exist, I would say this: It should only ever exist if, and I mean if the process for approving people, it would be completely independent of government, and there could be no benefit to those people in making that preference in making that decision.
Because otherwise there's a slippery slope, and we see that slippery slope."
The government runs the Canadian health care system, and it has quickly seen that paying for people to die by euthanasia or assisted suicide costs a lot less money than paying for them to receive medical care.
In 2020, Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer publicly released a report that its MAiD program created a “net cost reduction” of $86.9 million per year. It further noted that by expanding eligibility for MAiD, it could create an additional net savings of $62 million per year.
In an article for The Spectator, author Yuan Yi Zhu wrote:
Health care, in particular for those suffering from chronic conditions, is expensive; but assisted suicide only costs the taxpayer $2,327 per ‘case.’ And, of course, those who have to rely wholly on government-provided Medicare pose a far greater burden on the exchequer than those who have savings or private insurance…. There is already talk of allowing ‘mature minors’ access to euthanasia too—just think of the lifetime savings.
So much savings were to be had that doctors in Canada say they are now facing pressure from the government to use MAiD to cut costs, and 11% of Canadians who participated in a recent survey said they or someone they know has been offered MAiD for a condition they considered to be treatable.
Countless people have come forward with their stories of being offered MAiD for such concerns as a broken hip and treatable, manageable pain. One woman named Kristin is an Air Force veteran who was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer in Canada. Doctors there told her there were no treatment options that could save her life, and encouraged her to consider MAiD. She repeatedly asked for life-saving interventions, which were refused, until she traveled to the United States. She and her husband moved to Texas, where she received care, and her cancer was in remission as of September.
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·Man shocked by rapid approval and execution of father's MAiD death
A Canadian man recently shared that his father's death via Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program moved rapidly, and that the entire program is "way past inappropriate."
Eric Edmeades told Fox News that when his father requested MAiD, they thought it would take months for the process to play out.
Instead, his father was killed via MAiD within a matter of weeks.
Edmeades now believes MAiD has become 'inappropriate,' as people are approved for death without having serious, terminal illnesses, and the process moves rapidly.
A past Canadian government report noted how much money is saved when people are killed via assisted suicide and euthanasia instead of receiving treatment for their conditions.
Eric Edmeades, founder of Speaker Nation, told Fox News Digital that his father, Baz, had been living with medical issues and was in his late 70s when his health began to decline in 2023. That's when the topic of MAiD was mentioned. It was January 2024 when he and his family began to seriously consider MAiD for Baz.
"When the lockdowns came along, and he could no longer go out and walk all the time, it really had a marked decrease in his physical ability and his sense of freedom and all that kind of stuff," said Edmeades. "And then there just came this point where life started sounding pointless to him."
Based on what the family knew, they believed it would take six months for MAiD to be approved and carried out.
Edmeades and his wife planned a trip to visit Baz and thought they would have another opportunity to see him again, but Baz's death was approved very quickly. They did not have the months they thought they did.
"And then, all of a sudden, it was like, ‘No, it's next week,’" Edmeades recalled.
Baz died on February 27, 2024, via MAiD.
"And one of the things I'm incredibly grateful for is that I had incidentally booked a trip out to Vancouver, and my wife and I got to spend time with him," said Edmeades.
Edmeades may not have been worried about the timeline when the process began, but ultimately, he said it all "happened so quickly that I only really started to piece together what happened when it was done."
His brother, however, openly opposed their father's plan to end his life by MAiD.
The speed at which Baz received approval for MAiD and died as a result left Edmeades questioning whether MAiD has sufficient safeguards.
"What I see happening in Canada is way past appropriate," he said.
He added:
"If I had to press a button and decide whether the MAiD program existed or didn't exist, I would say this: It should only ever exist if, and I mean if the process for approving people, it would be completely independent of government, and there could be no benefit to those people in making that preference in making that decision.
Because otherwise there's a slippery slope, and we see that slippery slope."
The government runs the Canadian health care system, and it has quickly seen that paying for people to die by euthanasia or assisted suicide costs a lot less money than paying for them to receive medical care.
In 2020, Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer publicly released a report that its MAiD program created a “net cost reduction” of $86.9 million per year. It further noted that by expanding eligibility for MAiD, it could create an additional net savings of $62 million per year.
In an article for The Spectator, author Yuan Yi Zhu wrote:
Health care, in particular for those suffering from chronic conditions, is expensive; but assisted suicide only costs the taxpayer $2,327 per ‘case.’ And, of course, those who have to rely wholly on government-provided Medicare pose a far greater burden on the exchequer than those who have savings or private insurance…. There is already talk of allowing ‘mature minors’ access to euthanasia too—just think of the lifetime savings.
So much savings were to be had that doctors in Canada say they are now facing pressure from the government to use MAiD to cut costs, and 11% of Canadians who participated in a recent survey said they or someone they know has been offered MAiD for a condition they considered to be treatable.
Countless people have come forward with their stories of being offered MAiD for such concerns as a broken hip and treatable, manageable pain. One woman named Kristin is an Air Force veteran who was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer in Canada. Doctors there told her there were no treatment options that could save her life, and encouraged her to consider MAiD. She repeatedly asked for life-saving interventions, which were refused, until she traveled to the United States. She and her husband moved to Texas, where she received care, and her cancer was in remission as of September.
Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective.
Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
Contact editor@liveaction.org for questions, corrections, or if you are seeking permission to reprint any Live Action News content.
Guest Articles: To submit a guest article to Live Action News, email editor@liveaction.org with an attached Word document of 800-1000 words. Please also attach any photos relevant to your submission if applicable. If your submission is accepted for publication, you will be notified within three weeks. Guest articles are not compensated (see our Open License Agreement). Thank you for your interest in Live Action News!
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