The strategy of selling killing based on it being limited to rare circumstances is used in every jurisdiction when debating the legalization of poisoning.

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) argues that once legal, the assisted killing law inevitably expands because it is discriminatory to allow doctors to kill one group of people while restricting doctors from killing another group of people with similar conditions. EPC has been vilified for our honesty.

The Globe and Mail published an opinion article on June 13 by Dr Konia Trouton titled: Why are the rules different for MAiD depending on what you have? Trouton is not only a euthanasia doctor but she is also a co-founder and past president of CAMAP (Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Practitioners) and she helped develop the curriculum for training doctors to poison (kill) their patients.

Trouton’s article justifies euthanasia for people who are not terminally ill, but living with mental health conditions, something that is never promoted when a jurisdiction is debating the legalization of medical homicide.

Trouton argues that John Scully who is living with chronic mental illness, should have equal access to medical homicide.

According to Trouton, who is a euthanasia lobby leader, John Scully qualifies to be killed because he can no longer self-manage his life and he needs a personal support worker to help him live his life.

A definition, such as this, represents a very wide group of people. These people deserve to receive societal support (caring) not medical homicide.

Trouton’s comments are very eugenic. She is willing to kill Scully because he has a diminishing quality of life. Yet almost every elderly person or person’s with disabilities has a diminishing quality of life.

Trouton’s medical homicide approval criteria opens the door to medical homicide to the many not the few.

When debating the legalization of euthanasia or assisted suicide, the death lobby sells the concept of legalization as being for the hard cases, the few who are suffering and nearing death. Once legal, the death lobby moves to expand the law. Trouton is arguing that euthanasia should be approved for people with a mental illness alone.

I oppose killing people, but the next time a jurisdiction debates the legalization of euthanasia or assisted suicide, the opposition needs to refer to Trouton’s article which proves that the death lobby believes that medical homicide should apply to not only terminal conditions, but also chronic conditions and mental health conditions.

The death lobby wants medical homicide for the many but will sell it by claiming that it will be for the few.

Further information on this topic:

It is impossible to determine if a psychiatric condition is irremediable (Read).

Euthanasia for mental illness. Court cases and Committee hearings (Read).

Canadian psychiatrists: No to euthanasia for mental illness (Read).

A psychiatrist told the parliamentary committee that depression qualifies for MAiD (Read).

Psychiatric euthanasia (youth) and suicide prevention in the Netherlands (Read).

Euthanasia: No evidence base for futility and irremediability in psychiatric disorders (Read).

Euthanasia activist says that Canada must allow euthanasia for mental illness (Read).

Medical homicide as a psychiatric treatment (Read).

Grieving parents demand changes after son (26) was euthanized in Canada (Read).