Mon Oct 17, 2022 – 10:45 am EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) – Investigative journalists Brennan Leffler and Marianne Dimain wrote an in-depth research article that was published by Global News on October 8, 2022, titled “How poverty, not pain, is driving Canadians with disabilities to consider medically-assisted death.”
Leffler and Dimain interviewed people with disabilities who are seeking death by euthanasia (under Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying legislation, or MAiD), examining the wider issue of why people with disabilities are requesting death by euthanasia.
The first person interviewed was Joannie Cowie, 52, who lives in Windsor with her daughter who is a University student who also has a disability. The authors wrote:
It’s an unmistakable message from the government: if you want to end your life, we’ll help you.
‘If you call the number on the government website, they will provide doctors that will sign off for you,’ says the 52-year-old resident of Windsor, Ont.
‘They can have me dead in 90 days. That’s what I was told.’
Cowie certainly meets the medical criteria.
‘I have severe, severe asthma. And that’s turned into COPD, and Guillain-Barré syndrome as well as cancer. And I also just recently
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