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MAiD now fourth leading cause of death in Canada – Quebec leads all provinces
By Guy Page
A European medical study praises Canadian harvesting of organ transplants from ‘medically assisted in death’ (MAiD) – AKA assisted suicide – corpses as ‘a valuable additional source’ of organs.
Liver transplants increased 22% in Canada due to MAiD organ availability, the October 26 Journal of Hepatology study, “Utilization of liver grafts obtained from donation after medical assistance in dying: A Canadian multicenter experience,” reports.
Supporters praise the practice as one dying person offering life to another. Critics warn that patients may be encouraged to choose MAiD due to the high value of their organs.
Vermont in 2013 passed a law, Act 39, allowing MAiD/assisted suicide. Two other states had passed similar laws by ballot initiative. Vermont’s legislature was the first to adopt MAiD/assisted suicide. The Legislature has since relaxed some of the medical involvement requirements enacted in 2013 for patient protections. It is not known whether organ harvesting from MAiD/assisted suicide occurs in Vermont.
The bi-annual report to the Vermont Legislature in January, 2024 states that from May 31, 2013, to June 30, 2023, there were 203 ‘reportable events’, with 75% due to cancer (153 cases) and 13% due to neurodegenerative conditions (26 cases). From July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2023, there were 85 total reportable events, with similar reasons given.
In Canada, MAiD is ranked as the sixth-leading cause of death, as of 2022, at 4.1%, according to Canadian government data. The highest rate by province, 6.6%, is in Quebec, Vermont’s neighbor to the north.
The Journal of Hepatology study concludes:
“Liver grafts from MAiD donors provide outcomes comparable to [traditional transplant sources] and increased Canadian DCD [donation after circulatory death] activity by 21.8%. These findings support MAiD as a valuable additional source of liver grafts, though larger studies are needed to validate long-term safety and efficacy.
‘Liver transplantation using grafts from donors following medical assistance in dying (MAiD) achieves satisfactory patient and graft survival, with complication rates comparable to those following conventional donation after circularly death. MAiD donation increased donation after circularly death liver transplant activity in Canada by 21.8% over 7 years. These findings support MAiD as a valuable additional source of grafts, while also honoring the wishes of patients who choose to donate their organs.”
However, “the study is being widely condemned by critics as a chilling step toward normalizing organ harvesting from the euthanized,” reports Slay news website reporter Frank Bergman.
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Yes, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers got 7.6 out of 10 stars.
Perhaps those choosing to take the lethal dose in Canada aren’t quite dead when their organs are taken……chilling….Vermont legislators ignored the warnings of the slippery slope……
Oh this could never be exploited for sinister reasons. The government, judges and medical professionals will protect us……right? But just don’t advertise your blood type just to be safe.
This is chilling and sounds unethical. Of course someone is making a lot of money in the black market because vital organs like liver and kidneys needed for transplant surgeries are in big demand. Makes you wonder if they screen these organs well enough to know cause of death by poison or not and whether that poison has already shown up in the liver (you know the organ that detoxifies your body) and the new liver you just got fails and the patient dies. This is scary.
Absolutely, Donna! It’s disgusting and sick.
The CCP Chinese government has been doing this with thousands and thousands of prisoners. They remove their organs for a very lucrative organ industry, regardless of whether they are dead or alive.
University of Pittsburgh was doing this with babies they would purposely abort for “research” and for lab experimentation to come up with all kinds of insane federally taxpayer-funded reasons.
Same kind of thing the perverted monster Josef Mengele did with Holocaust prisoners for his personal titillation and ostensibly “scientific research.” He performed the absolutely most demonic, hellish, nightmarish experiments on his victims without anesthesia.
“Researchers” took aborted babies’ stem cells to try to cure Parkinson’s.
Planned Barrenhood was caught red-handed nationwide purposely aborting babies just to remove their organs for profit.
Now Canada is using this evil pretense for financial gain.
There is an enormous level of deception operating in those who devise these evil plans under the guise of “good” or “beneficial,” and in the locations and countries which permit them.
The ends never justify the means when the means are inherently evil.
Every death is a murder until proven otherwise. When a person is found that as committed suicide the family may want to check for missing body parts. Never fear the autopsy will find the truth if the medical examiner is not getting a piece of the action. Comment from Richard Day.
Don’t the majority of people choosing MAID have terminal illnesses? I can’t imagine that the organs and tissue are very healthy. Wouldn’t it be likely that there would be, say cancer cells, in what they harvest?