https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wxq28znpqo
April Hubbard sits on the theatre stage where she plans to die later this year.
She is not terminally ill, but the 39-year-old performance and burlesque artist has been approved for assisted dying under Canada's increasingly liberal laws.
April was born with spina bifida and was later diagnosed with tumours at the base of her spine which she says have left her in constant, debilitating pain.
She's been taking strong opioid painkillers for more than 20 years and applied for Medical Assistance in Dying (Maid) in March 2023. While she could yet live for decades with her condition, she qualified to end her life early seven months after applying. For those who are terminally ill it is possible to get approval within 24 hours.
Canadians as a society are like teenagers. You give them something new and they go all in on it without any sense of responsibility, plus they turn it into a moral issue.
ReplyDeleteDoctor Assisted Death is one of those things. Originally only for the terminally ill and grevious suffering, the "If he gets it, I should get it too! I got rights!" crowd turned it into the fashionable choice. Why die in the old messy way when you can have the doctor kill you while wearing your best Sunday clothes?
Says the Canadian medical professional....
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