I am hearing about this kind of abandonment much more often since Canada loosened its euthanasia eligibility requirements. There have even been stories of case workers suggesting euthanasia to disabled people denied independent-living assistance and veterans with PTSD as an answer to their “suffering” caused by a lack of social services.

And for you cynics — meaning realists — consider the money Canada will save if disabled people decide to be killed because they have such trouble accessing the care that would make them want to live.

Hopefully, the adverse publicity of this story will get the government off the dime. But if Finlay dies by a lethal jab, it will not be because of the suffering caused by her disability but rather the anguish caused by a society that is increasingly embracing euthanasia as an answer to social injustice — and it will be performed by a doctor who will know that her desire to die has little to do with her physical disability but who does it anyway.

[Canada set up these incentives by adopting a single-payer, government-run health care system and euthanasia for “humanitarian” purposes. We have warned for years that the combination would create overwhelming financial imperatives to push patients into suicide rather than treatment. We are seeing the predictable and predicted results of the disposable society. — Ed]