You may not have freedom of speech, the freedom to decide to take experimental vaccines, or the freedom to protest in Canada.

But the Canadian Bar Association is going to the mat for you if you are a kid who wants to kill himself and/or a person with bipolar disorder, depression, or any other mental illness as your sole complaint.

If you are suicidal, the state should help. Not help you cope. Help you kill yourself.

If you are a kid with depression, you hit the bonus round! Free death for you!

Canada is going insane.

This is an appalling statement from @CBA_News on an unprecedented exemption from the crime of murder in the Criminal Code.https://t.co/yyclp2GoB5

— Christopher Lyon (@ChristophLyon) July 23, 2023

I have written about Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying policies several times already, and I probably don’t need to tell you how appalled I am by what is happening in the Great White North.

As I have tried to make clear, my opposition to MAiD is not due to my Catholicism, although as a Catholic I oppose medically-assisted suicide in principle. However, I understand that terminally ill and suffering people are in a different moral category than fetuses who are alive due to the foreseeable actions of their mothers and who have a whole life ahead of them. They are, in my view, separate moral issues.

I also understand that the path to inevitable and painful death in the near future is not one everybody wants to tread for obvious reasons; when the only future is one of suffering death can be a welcome relief.

That is the selling point for MAiD: helping people near the end of life avoid suffering.

That’s not the reality of MAiD, though, and not even close. MAiD has become a means for Canada to reduce medical costs, relieve stress on the welfare system, and is a profit center for some businesses. Some funeral homes are opening up MAiD rooms for the convenience of families who want to avoid transport costs for dead bodies.

I wonder if they just lie right down in the coffin for the procedure? Funeral home profits from MAiD on site AND saves on transportation costs for the body.

Free enterprise alive & well in 🇨🇦 when it comes to profiting from state-sponsored suicide🤯
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— I M Heather🇨🇦 (@IMHeatherAmI) July 18, 2023

Vancouver has become a death tourism destination, where suicide is a business. Death is presented as a cure for PTSD, paraplegia, and mental illness. People have been approved for MAiD for autism, deafness, and poverty.

The Canadian Bar is fed up. Not with the killing, but rather with lollygagging in the Parliament where some legislators are not so happy about giving minors with depression the right to medically assisted suicide the right to kill themselves without parental input.

Further delays to the eligibility for medical assistance in dying, or MAiD, in circumstances where the sole underlying condition is a mental illness are deeply concerning and should not be prolonged. That’s the gist of a letter to Justice Minister David Lametti and Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos from the Canadian Bar Association’s End of Life Working Group.

The CBA’s commitment to clarifying the law about end-of-life decision-making goes back nearly a decade. “The CBA supports MAiD for persons with mental illnesses and mature minors, and supports advance requests for MAiD, with appropriate safeguards.” It has made recommendations to that effect consistently over the years.

Who are these ghouls?

As with so many other pathologies in our society, this is being presented as a human rights issue: people should have the right to do what they want, which has a surface appeal.

But some things we want are pathological, prima facia evidence that one is non compos mentis. We protect minors because they are not fully capable of comprehending the consequences of their action, and have laws that allow for the commitment of people when they are a danger to themselves or others because they are judged not sane.

People living with mental illness are entitled to autonomy and self-determination about their health, without discrimination, and to recognition that their suffering is no less real than that of individuals affected by a physical illness.

True, but depression is treatable. Death is not the appropriate treatment. Not for autism, ADHD, PTSD, or bipolar disorder. Helping people regain their autonomy through appropriate treatment should be the goal. But everybody understands that a depressed person killing themselves is not exercising autonomy, but is instead robbed of it.

It is easier and cheaper to kill off the inconveniently ill, of course, but also profoundly immoral.

My fears regarding MAiD have always been about this slide down the slippery slope, not that a profoundly ill person in intense physical pain might slip away “prematurely” due to an excessive dose of morphine. I don’t feel competent to judge the patient or the doctor in such a hideous position.

But death has just become another product in Canada, complete with advertisements. Simons, a clothing store, actually made a film and advertisement featuring the suicide of a woman who wanted to live but couldn’t get medical care in Canada’s “free” healthcare system. It celebrated her taking charge of her life and death.

This is a cultural sickness.