Canada Rapidly Becoming Dangerous For Christians

Our friendly neighbor to the north is becoming a lab case for government-approved destruction of life and promotion of perversion. Evidence shows up in a number of ways: abortion, euthanasia, and legislation promoting homosexuality.
Canada's abortion rate per 1000 women of childbearing age is only about 10 per year compared to over 50 in Russia. While Canada is not at the top of the list for the most abortions per year, it is on the cutting edge of the next assault on life, assisted death. Canada's 27.2 assisted deaths per 100,000 population is only behind the Netherlands at 43.7.


Four percent of all deaths in Canada last year were due to Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID). What began as an attempt to mercifully relieve terminal people from unbearable pain has taken on a new dimension. It is now being expanded to include sufferers of chronic disease, physically disabled, and possibly the mentally ill and children.
Pro-lifers have long warned that when respect for preborn life was lost, the slippery slope would begin. If it is okay to kill a baby in the womb, it becomes much easier to find an excuse to dispose of other undesirables. In less than 100 years we have moved from right to kill in abortion, to right to die in MAID, to talk of obligation to die because of the high cost of medical care.
Part of the logic being used in Canada is based on their failed socialist medical plan. Medical providers have pointed out for a long time that between 20% and 50% of the cost of medical care for an individual happens in the last six months of life. In 2017, the Canadian Medical Association journal published a report saying: "Medical assistance in dying could reduce annual healthcare spending across Canada by between $34.7 million and $138.8 million.

But if Satan cannot destroy life, he will try to pervert it....
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Our friendly neighbor to the north is becoming a lab case for government-approved destruction of life and promotion of perversion. Evidence shows up in a number of ways: abortion, euthanasia, and legislation promoting homosexuality.

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[Tall Timbers]

I'm currently receiving some training in helping people on a path to suicide to choose life. I wonder how long it will be before attempting to actually help someone who is suicidal will be criminalized in the USA.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

I've heard 90-95 percent of medical costs occur in the last year of life for most people.
Based on what I saw with my parents, this seems plausible.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

I'm currently receiving some training in helping people on a path to suicide to choose life. I wonder how long it will be before attempting to actually help someone who is suicidal will be criminalized in the USA.

I know someone, who was yelled at by a MH professional at the VA, for calling the Crisis Hotline (suicide/mental health crisis line for Vets)

In Minnesota, it's virtually impossible to get anyone any mental health help against their will. Even when it's a mental health or medical professional, who is trying to refer someone or get the crisis team to pick someone up

The VA here has so few MH professionals that outpatient real help is essentially not available or accessible, and the MH focus is on BigPHARMA and red-flagging in Veteran medical records to deprive of 2nd Amendment rights

 

[Tall Timbers]

I've heard 90-95 percent of medical costs occur in the last year of life for most people.
Based on what I saw with my parents, this seems plausible.

In my case I think I'm using up my medical costs earlier... otherwise my last year of life is going to be a doozy!

 

[Tall Timbers]

From a worldly (Godless) perspective, it makes really good sense to euthanize those with dementia, Parkinsons, old folks who ask for it, and others who just don't want to live. That's why I would expect the world to go the way that Canada has with regards to ending life.

 

[Amethyst]

I'm currently receiving some training in helping people on a path to suicide to choose life. I wonder how long it will be before attempting to actually help someone who is suicidal will be criminalized in the USA.

Is this part of that Stephen’s ministry?

 

[Tall Timbers]

Is this part of that Stephen’s ministry?

Yes

 

[Batman]

Canada is a rogue socialist marxist country and I'm not sure that will change when Trudeau is out. The people are just like Commiefornians. They vote in the worst excuses for leaders and support the worst of leftist, liberal, rabid, social, marxist, progressive, globalist stupidity.

 

[LydiaJoy]

I love this story about a women who was talked out of assisted suicide 24 years ago, below is the into to the full article and link:

I was speaking this weekend in Oregon and Dr Kenneth Stevens gave us an incredible gift by bring Jeanette Hall to the event.

Oregon’s assisted suicide law came into effect in 1998. In 2000, Jeanette Hall had cancer and she was give six to 12 months to live. Jeanette made a settled decision to use Oregon’s assisted suicide law in lieu of being treated for cancer. Her doctor, Kenneth Stevens, who opposed assisted suicide, thought that her chances with treatment were good. Over several weeks, he stalled her request for assisted suicide and finally convinced her to be treated for cancer.

https://www.lifenews.com/2024/03/08...-assisted-suicide-today-shes-glad-shes-alive/

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Canada is a rogue socialist marxist country and I'm not sure that will change when Trudeau is out. The people are just like Commiefornians. They vote in the worst excuses for leaders and support the worst of leftist, liberal, rabid, social, marxist, progressive, globalist stupidity.

I have family there. They're woke and hostile to the Bible, The Gospel, and Christians.

Family-perpetrated persecution is going to get more and more common as hostility to the Bible and Christians grows, both in Canada and the United States. Religious persecution all over the world is frequently hidden and under-counted by virtue of it often being perpetrated by non-Christian family and "friends" behind closed doors. Almost never reported, as the persecutors are almost always in step with prevailing social zeitgeist and government policies and escape for the victim(s) is often impossible/very difficult. If it is reported, it's usually classified as domestic violence, and then only if a report is even generated.

No doubt in my mind that woke family and "friend" will turn me in as a Christian when it's to their advantage to do so, or just to be mean. I'll be glad when

 

[Cheeky200386]

I have family there. They're woke and hostile to the Bible, The Gospel, and Christians.

Family-perpetrated persecution is going to get more and more common as hostility to the Bible and Christians grows, both in Canada and the United States. Religious persecution all over the world is frequently hidden and under-counted by virtue of it often being perpetrated by non-Christian family and "friends" behind closed doors. Almost never reported, as the persecutors are almost always in step with prevailing social zeitgeist and government policies and escape for the victim(s) is often impossible/very difficult. If it is reported, it's usually classified as domestic violence, and then only if a report is even generated.

No doubt in my mind that woke family and "friend" will turn me in as a Christian when it's to their advantage to do so, or just to be mean. I'll be glad when

I know many people don’t even see it as persecution for Christians because, in their eyes, we deserve it. They just see it as justice. For that reason alone, I can see that it won’t be reported, but ignored and then eventually celebrated.

 

[Margery]

That's why I would expect the world to go the way that Canada has with regards to ending life.

100% agree. We are the test lab.

I observed a feeble attempt (in my opinion) to open up a conversation- or it may have just been a carefully worded attempt to gently point out that my husband needed to die in a private room, not a 2 bed room off the main nurses station and that she was going to make that happen or even transfer him out of the hospital to hospice.

Either way it's coming.

I'm so glad you are getting in there with a ministry to prevent suicide. I think that is SO important now that the medical focus here in Canada is killing people that are troublesome and expensive to care for including the mentally ill.

They are doing that here in Canada (in my opinion) now because the calls to reopen the psychiatric hospitals is growing in response to a number of violent crimes from deranged people out on the streets where they aren't getting care of any kind which is cruel for them and their victims.

 

[Tall Timbers]

I think that is SO important now that the medical focus here in Canada is killing people that are troublesome and expensive to care for including the mentally ill.

When you look at the cost for good full time care for someone with dementia, a lot of people will have to choose between the care for as long as it can be afforded (then what), and just going with death and dividing what's left of the estate... Since this is the world...

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

When you look at the cost for good full time care for someone with dementia, a lot of people will have to choose between the care for as long as it can be afforded (then what), and just going with death and dividing what's left of the estate... Since this is the world...

Dad and I went through this with Mom. Mom had Medicare and a good supplement. The first 100 days of nursing home care were paid for in full by Medicare and the supplement. In the meantime, we had to apply for State of Minnesota Medicaid, Medical Waiver, and Medical Assistance for Mom. Mom qualified, but all of her Social Security had to be used to continue Medicare and her supplement, and the rest paid to the facility as cost share. The State of Minnesota paid the rest. However, there's a five year look-back, which is essentially a lien, on the house because it was a joint asset of my parents. When the house sells, the mortgage gets paid off, then the State of Minnesota takes what it paid out, except they have to leave $3000. If there isn't enough equity in the house, they can go after other assets in the estate. If there simply aren't enough assets to pay, the State eats it. Fortunately, no filial support law here that makes kids responsible for elderly parents, otherwise the State could come after my siblings and me for the rest, and they wouldn't have to do it equally.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

100% agree. We are the test lab.

I observed a feeble attempt (in my opinion) to open up a conversation- or it may have just been a carefully worded attempt to gently point out that my husband needed to die in a private room, not a 2 bed room off the main nurses station and that she was going to make that happen or even transfer him out of the hospital to hospice.

Either way it's coming.

The ER doc didn't want to do anything for dad when he got taken in. I had to fight to get care just to give him a chance,which is what dad wanted, and it was a fight for virtually everything. Fortunately, Dad had a medical care directive that was very clear, so I knew what Dad wanted and had legal document to back me up and protect in case of legal action later.

Dad made it out of the ER and into a private room in intensive care. There was an older doc that was very kind and supportive, and under his watch, Dad improved enough to have visitors besides me, so he got to see and talk with family and the "friend" before he died. There was one specific very young ICU doc, whom I didn't trust or like, who tried to get me to withdraw care, and I had to fight again for Dad. Eventually, Dad did deteriorate and oxygen and then the ventilator had to be put back on, but he was still alert and communicating. Finally, the young doctor said the ventilator was only prolonging the process of dying and there was no possibility of recovery. The words, "prolong(ing) the process of dying" have specific legal meaning and weight here. Dad had specifically put in his advance directive that he did not want any care or treatment that only prolonged the process of dying, so the decision was very clear to me. The ventilator was removed and Dad died peacefully with two of us kids and the "friend" around him awhile later. The woke "friend" was not happy when I prayed the Now I lay me down to sleep prayer over Dad, and actually moved away when my sibling and I prayed The Lord's Prayer over him

The night before, when I was alone with Dad, I had read some Scripture to him and prayed the two prayers over him. I think Dad might have felt he had permission to go home to Heaven after the children's prayer, because it was later that night that he started deteriorating after he had been holding his own and slowly improving.

 

[Margery]

Just another confirmation I wasn’t imagining things- I spoke with a Christian friend in Alberta and her mum died recently and they were “encouraging” her to use MAID on her mum. MORE THAN ONCE and the conversation always started like this.