Mon Sep 26, 2022 – 3:49 pm EDT
CALEDON, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — A Canadian mother is desperate to save her diabetic, newly visually impaired, 23-year-old son from euthanasia.
Margaret Marsilla of Caledon, Ontario, a town northwest of Toronto, released a Change.org petition earlier this month in the hope that it will prevent her 23-year-old son Kiano V. from dying at the MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) House in Toronto on September 28.
Kiano – whose surname is known to LifeSiteNews – was diagnosed with diabetes when he was four, which led to his visual impairment and an operation to recover the sight in one eye. This left him, Marsilla said in a Facebook remark, “exhausted,” both physically and mentally. Kiano sought therapy, but, unfortunately, he found a quicker, more permanent solution to his challenges.
“He decided to apply for MAiD …. and to our surprise, he got approved for it,” Marsilla wrote in an early draft of her petition. “Can you believe it? The doctor literally has given him the gun to kill himself.”
The mother, the director of a private nursing agency, is furious that her son was not encouraged to choose life, or offered
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