MONTREAL, Quebec, October 5, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — A majority of caregivers in Quebec support euthanasia for patients with Alzheimer’s or dementia, even if the patients had not previously signed an advance directive.
According to a recent survey, ninety-one percent of 302 caregivers surveyed said they favored euthanasia for people with dementia who were in the terminal stage of the illness, showed signs of distress, and had signed an advance directive to be euthanized, reported the Montreal Gazette.
But as many as seventy-two percent still supported euthanasia for dementia patients, even when the patients had not signed an advance directive.
The survey was performed by University of Sherbrooke epidemiologist Dina Bravo. Some dozen chapters of the Quebec Federation of Alzheimer’s Groups assisted by collecting data.
“This story chills me to my bones,” responded American anti-euthanasia activist Wesley Smith in the National Review.
The disease “can be far worse on the caregiver than it is on the afflicted, who often don’t remember their worst moments,” wrote Smith, who cared for his mother, an Alzheimer’s patient, in his home for five months before her death.
“Anyone who doesn’t see the potential for caregivers working to put the patient out
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