We are now expecting freezing rain for overnight. I hope it doesn’t materialize because I have errands to do tomorrow. Also the constant gray and overcast days kill what little energy I do have.
I also avoided mentioning bad news for the Christmas season, but I really have to mention that now, in 12 of the 50 United States of America, physician-assisted suicide is now legal. Doctors who do not want to participate will have to direct patients seeking such services to other physicians who will provide them. This is also called the MAID program–medical assistance in dying. This is not going to go away easily. My next question is–when will it become compulsory?
I pray for my country every day. It needs it.
Please stay safe and warm
God bless everybody.
Patty
Cloudy weather can make everything seem gloomy. We don’t have many cloudy days, here, but I sure notice the ones we do have. Winters here are frequently completely absent of rain, but we’ve had 3 or 4 rainy days, just in the last couple of weeks.
That’s something about the MAID program. Apparently life is not so precious, to some of these people.
How do we ever reverse abominations like maid.
I don’t know. Civilization wise, we are in some deep yogurt.
We sure are.
MAiD has been in Canada for only a few years, yet is already one of the top 10 causes of death. Worse, it is now being used to harvest organs.
Personally, I know several people with disabilities that chose MAiD. One of them, after suffering years of pain from a botched treatment. This is someone born with severe cerebral palsy at a time when parents were told to just turn their babies over to institutions and forget about them. They didn’t. He was non verbal though, with practice, we learned to communicate with him. He had better use of his legs than his arms, so he pushed himself on his wheelchair with his feet. Backwards. He wrote articles, typing with his nose. He was already in his 60s when I first met him, living independently with help from home care. He “ran” marathons, and repelled down buildings for charity. But our own health care system basically killed him.
It’s being offered almost as a default. A homeless military vet with PTSD? They offered MAid. A woman unable to find housing due to being allergic to almost everything? They offered MAiD. Another woman who needed a stair lift to get around her own home? They offered MAiD. But, an indigenous trans woman living in horrible, constant pain due to botched bottom surgery, who actually applied for it? Nope. Got turned down. Now they want to be able to offer it for mental illness, and to “mature children”.
As if that’s bad enough, it seems that MAiD isn’t the peaceful death it’s being marketed as (and it *is* marketed). It is a series of injections that are supposed to render the patient unconscious, then paralyzed, then killed. But the first one doesn’t always take. As a result, patients end up suffering horribly, with no way to show that they are still conscious. There have even been cases where the paralytic wasn’t completely effect, and the family members could actually see that their loved one was suffering, sometimes for hours.
The whole thing is horrific. How have we fallen so far?
I’m at a loss for words.
Unthinkable.
Truly. Our civilization is in a bad, bad place.
Like the one minister advised. Sing Louder!
I am at a loss for words. There has to be a grassroots movement started to fight this.