{"id":331931,"date":"2026-10-11T06:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T06:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331931"},"modified":"2026-10-11T07:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:03:50","slug":"canada-targets-people-with-dementia-for-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=331931","title":{"rendered":"Canada Targets People With Dementia for Euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wesley Smith \u2013 Life News Oct 9, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Some are celebrating Canada\u2019s government \u201cindefinitely suspending\u201d legalizing euthanasia for mental illness as a great victory for life. Not me.<\/p>\n

Let me explain. Of course, I am gratified that mental illness will not become grounds for being killed in 2027 as was scheduled. But note: In announcing the suspension, the government mooted legislation likely to pass that would have permanently outlawed killing for mental illness. Moreover, \u201cindefinite\u201d can mean years \u2014 or a month. So, it\u2019s not a matter of principle.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the kicker. The government is now promoting euthanasia for people with dementia. From the Global News story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[Justice Minister Sean] Fraser also said the government will \u201cgrant access to medical assistance in dying to people who have provided consent at a time when they still have capacity but know that they have been diagnosed with an illness that will take that capacity from them subsequently.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is sometimes referred to as \u201cadvance directive\u201d or \u201cadvance request\u201d in medical parlance. It often involves a competent person making a written request for MAID, with the intention that it would be honoured later, if and when they lose the capacity to make the decision for themselves: for example, in people suffering from worsening Alzheimer\u2019s or dementia.<\/p>\n

Once this proposal is law, people will be able to order themselves killed in the future when they reach a particular point of incapacity. And they wouldn\u2019t be able to change their minds once they became incompetent because they would no longer be legally entitled to make their own care decisions. So, even if they were happy, not suffering, and now wanting to live, they would still be lethally injected.<\/p>\n

This is already the law in the Netherlands and Belgium, and it has led to a horrific story. One Dutch woman signed such a document. When she repeatedly refused the lethal jab<\/a> after becoming incompetent, the doctor drugged her coffee and started the termination. The patient woke up and struggled against the procedure. The doctor instructed the family to hold her down<\/a> and completed the killing. Of course, a court later found the doctor not guilty of any crime.<\/p>\n

Dementia patients are the next target of the culture of death, with advocacy increasing to include such people in the killable caste. Euthanasia activists already push VSED \u2014 suicide by self-starvation \u2014 for patients so diagnosed and even want caregivers forced to refuse<\/a> their patients food and water if the person had so ordered when competent. Once that idea is accepted by society, lethal injections will soon follow because it will be seen as more humane.<\/p>\n

So, I am not surprised that Canada\u2019s leaders decided to shift their focus from the mentally ill \u2014 which caused a pushback \u2014 to cognitively incapacitated patients as euthanasia\u2019s next big expansion. Many are terrified of dementia, so I suspect they believe it will be a lighter lift. And think of the money in health-care resources that will be saved!<\/p>\n

LifeNews.com Note: Wesley J. Smith, J.D., is a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture and a bioethics attorney who blogs at\u00a0Human Exeptionalism<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The trouble with euthanasia is that once the idea is accepted by society, the criteria for its use will expand as it will widen as it will be seen as a more humane option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":324503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331934,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331931\/revisions\/331934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}