{"id":332459,"date":"2026-10-27T06:40:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=332459"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T08:30:43","slug":"canadas-top-newspaper-demands-lethal-injections-for-mental-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=332459","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Top Newspaper Demands Lethal Injections for \u2018Mental Disorders\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frank Bergman \u2013 SLAY News.com Oct 26, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Canada\u2019s top newspaper is demanding that the government begin euthanizing healthy members of the public suffering solely from \u201cmental disorders.\u201d<\/p>\n

The demand for mentally ill citizens to be euthanized was made in an article published in Canada\u2019s Globe and Mail.<\/p>\n

The outlet is calling on the globalist government to expand the nation\u2019s \u201cassisted suicide\u201d laws to allow for lethal injections to be administered to people suffering solely from mental illness.<\/p>\n

In the article<\/a>, written by euthanasia practitioner Dr. Jean Marmoreo, the Mail argues that any opposition to the plan from government is \u201cpolitically driven cowardice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marmoreo\u2019s column follows Justice Minister Sean Fraser\u2019s announcement that Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s government plans to prohibit euthanasia when mental illness is a person\u2019s sole underlying condition.<\/p>\n

Euthanasia advocates are arguing that mentally ill patients should be killed by the government under the nation\u2019s taxpayer-funded Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program.<\/p>\n

Published under the headline \u201cRefusing MAID for mental disorders will come at a terrible cost,\u201d the opinion piece argues that Canada should extend its Medical Assistance in Dying program to psychiatric patients.<\/p>\n

The push comes as Canadians struggle to obtain mental health treatment and psychiatrists warn that the country\u2019s existing euthanasia system is already approving people who should not qualify<\/p>\n

Euthanasia Practitioner Demands Expansion<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Marmoreo, co-author of The Last Doctor: Lessons in Living from the Front Lines of Medical Assistance in Dying, opened her argument by emphasizing her experience with death.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have sat at more deathbeds than most politicians will ever picture in their lifetimes,\u201d Marmoreo wrote.<\/p>\n

She argued that \u201cCanadians can\u2019t afford to have our legislators choose this path when it comes to people with mental illness.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her position would extend euthanasia eligibility beyond physical conditions to people whose sole qualifying illness is psychiatric.<\/p>\n

That proposal raises a fundamental question: why expand access to death while access to treatment remains so difficult?<\/p>\n

Approximately one in five Canadians experiences a mental health problem or illness, with roughly half affected by age 40.<\/p>\n

The Canadian Mental Health Association estimates a mental health funding gap exceeding a billion dollars.<\/p>\n

Psychiatrists Warn Canada Has Already Gone Too Far<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Two University of Toronto psychiatrists, including one who has performed euthanasia, recently warned<\/a> in The New York Times that Canada\u2019s system has gone too far and is approving patients who should not receive assisted death.<\/p>\n

Marmoreo nevertheless argued that denying psychiatric patients access to euthanasia discounts their suffering.<\/p>\n

\u201cOttawa is also telling a patient with treatment-resistant depression or complex PTSD that their agony is less credible than another person\u2019s cancer,\u201d Marmoreo wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll this simply because their illness resides in the brain.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who believes that the pain of mental illness is less terrible than the pain of cancer hasn\u2019t experienced the helplessness of sitting with a family in the face of their child or loved one\u2019s severe depression.\u201d<\/p>\n

But recognizing severe psychiatric suffering does not require accepting that recovery is impossible.<\/p>\n

Psychiatrist Dr. John Maher, who specializes in patients considered exceptionally difficult to treat, argues that mental illness is not irremediable and that further options remain.<\/p>\n

Marmoreo herself acknowledged uncertainty about predicting whether a psychiatric condition can improve.<\/p>\n

\u201cPsychiatry is understandably uncomfortable with the idea of predicting irremediability,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd perhaps a cure for treatment-resistant depression will arrive tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs doctors, we always practice with hope, and these complex cases test us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recovery Versus an Irreversible Decision<\/strong><\/h2>\n

That uncertainty sits at the center of the controversy.<\/p>\n

A patient who survives a suicidal crisis retains the possibility of recovery.<\/p>\n

Euthanasia permanently ends that possibility.<\/p>\n

Marmoreo invoked \u201cbodily autonomy\u201d in defending expansion and pointed to \u201cpatients who deteriorated and ended their lives alone\u201d when discussing the consequences of refusing access.<\/p>\n

Her argument treats the possibility of suicide outside the medical system as a reason to permit assisted death within it.<\/p>\n

Yet Canada\u2019s suicide figures underscore how many people survive attempts.<\/p>\n

In 2024, there were an estimated<\/a> 100,000 suicide attempts and 4,394 suicide deaths, excluding euthanasia.<\/p>\n

Those figures do not predict how many people would seek or receive euthanasia.<\/p>\n

They do illustrate the enormous stakes of decisions affecting people experiencing suicidal crises.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s proposed prohibition would keep mental illness alone from qualifying someone for euthanasia.<\/p>\n

Marmoreo wants that barrier removed, even as treatment remains difficult to access and psychiatric recovery cannot be ruled out with certainty.<\/p>\n

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