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by hungryforcodes 1288 days ago
> Their are reports of children and confused elderly being tricked into euthanasia without their families knowledge

Interesting, can you provide links to these reports? It's a pretty serious assertion.

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From google

Terminally ill children as young as 12 should have euthanasia choice, expert panel urges

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/terminally-ill-children...

Canadian Bill to Allow Euthanasia of Dementia Patients

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/canadian-bill-to-allow...

FIRST READING: To countries considering legal euthanasia, Canada a model of what not to do

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/first-reading-to-count...

EXCLUSIVE: Doctors slam Canada's 'perverted' new law that allows people to be EUTHANIZED if they are suffering from mental health problems

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11440261/Canada-e...

What Euthanasia Has Done to Canada

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/03/opinion/canada-euthanasia...

Canadian man claims assisted suicide is being pushed on him by hospital

https://nypost.com/2022/11/08/canadian-man-assisted-suicide-...

Assisted Suicide for Poverty

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/assisted-suicide-for-p...

Canada opens door to expanding assisted dying

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51620021

Canada expanding assisted suicide law to include the mentally ill, possibly enable 'mature minors'

https://www.foxnews.com/media/canadas-expanding-assisted-sui...

A quick google search did not return anything, mainstream media does not cover stories like this, and I cannot remember where I read these stories. I know the last one I read was about a family suing the government to stop the euthanasia of their son(I believe). And I have read articles similar to this one of the elderly going to the hospital and being offered euthanasia instead of medical care.

I did find this forbes article (https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2022/08/15/canadas-n...) that talked about a troubling case I had not heard or and included lots of details about the whole system.

But when all you need is a nurse practitioner and a signature from someone with dementia or other mentally crippling disease, of course things like this will happen. Agree or disagree with how some European countries do it, this is not that same thing. The people pushing this are the doctors and nurses you go to to get medial treatment from, and the oversight is non-existent.

From where I sit it seems like your perception on this topic is quite different then the reality.