Physician Assisted Suicide

Why we don't treat human beings with the same compassion as animals when they are suffering and dying?

In a society where we place high value on freedom and individual choice, why don’t we allow people to choose the time and manner of their death?"

Euthanasia is the deliberate killing of someone by action or omission, with or without that person’s consent, for what are claimed to be compassionate reasons. Assisted Suicide is counselling, abetting, or an act of aiding someone to kill himself or herself. Whether euthanasia or assisted suicide both should be treated as murder / homicide, irrespective of whether the person killed has consented to be killed.

Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide have become a scourge on our society. All lives matter and it is crucial that Catholics make their voice heard on this important issue.

Unfortunately, it will probably not be long before the Liberal government reintroduces legislation to extend the circumstances for allowing Assisted Suicide. Please educate yourself and take action.

• Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Urgent Questions! (Canadian Organization of Life and Family)
• Beauty and Dignity in the Unhastened Passing of a Soul by Archbishop Prendergast

• It’s my life, my death, my freedom, my choice,  my right!
• I want to die with dignity.
• Living is not an obligation. I don’t want to die hooked up to a bunch of machines or forced to stay alive when I know it’s time to pass on.
• Having the right to die, even if I never exercise it, gives me the control I need to have a peaceful death.
• We need to be compassionate. I wouldn’t even let my dog suffer through a long death. Why would I force someone I love to suffer uncontrollable pain? 
• Good palliative care should include the option of euthanasia. In certain circumstances it’s the appropriate form of care.
• End of life care is very expensive. If someone wants to die, they are actually serving society by freeing up medical resources. They should be allowed to choose to bring meaning to their death by honorably helping others. 
• I don’t want to be a burden on my family or society.
• Disabled people have no quality of life. Their life is not worth living. They would better off dead. 
• Why worry about a slippery slope? The experience of other countries and states shows that
• safeguards in the law effectively prevent abuses.
• You are trying to impose your religious values on all of Canadian society.