{"id":10333,"date":"2015-04-09T01:37:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T05:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=10333"},"modified":"2015-04-09T01:37:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T05:37:01","slug":"canadians-should-be-outraged-over-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/canadians-should-be-outraged-over-assisted-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians should be \u201coutraged\u201d over assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recent decision by Canada\u2019s Supreme Court to allow assisted suicide in certain cases, with Parliament to decide on the framework, should awaken a deep sense of outrage in Canadians.
\nUnder the dubious and superficial guise of compassion we are about to sanction murder of the vulnerable. Let\u2019s consider a better option.
\nIn 2011 an all-party member committee of the Canadian government called for a national strategy on palliative care. Among others it cited these facts:<\/p>\n

\u2022\tOnly about one third of Canadians have access to such care
\n\u2022\tThere are only 86 palliative care hospices for 35 million people
\n\u2022\tThere remains poor overall training among physicians for end of life pain
\nEuthanasia is not the answer. It involves a serious contradiction for physicians and most palliative care physicians are against it. It is morally questionable no matter how we frame it.
\nWe, as a society, have a deep responsibility to help the dying, not by killing them, not by this \u201cfinal solution\u201d, but by end of life care that effectively manages pain, celebrates the sacredness of the lives of loved ones, and deals with dying in a more compassionate way. We need a national approach to palliative care. Other countries have one. Canada can take the lead.
\nSurely this is the choice most Canadians would support. The decision of the Supreme Court is a call to action to invest in a more humane, and human, alternative.<\/p>\n

Rick Doust
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The recent decision by Canada\u2019s Supreme Court to allow assisted suicide in certain cases, with Parliament to decide on the framework, should awaken a deep sense of outrage in Canadians. Under the dubious and superficial guise of compassion we are about to sanction murder of the vulnerable. Let\u2019s consider a better option. In 2011 an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-2GF","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-23 01:37:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}