{"id":2213222,"date":"2024-04-04T16:36:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-euthanasia-business-is-booming-as-western-civilization-gives-up-on-itself\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:36:43","slug":"the-euthanasia-business-is-booming-as-western-civilization-gives-up-on-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-euthanasia-business-is-booming-as-western-civilization-gives-up-on-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"The euthanasia industry is thriving amid a growing sense of disillusionment in Western society"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-euthanasia-business-is-booming-as-western-civilization-gives-up-on-itself%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2213222&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The rapid increase in euthanasia in Canada is\u200c alarming.\u2064 Euthanasia is now the country&#8217;s fifth-leading cause of death, making\u2064 up one in every 25 fatalities. The \u200bconcerning rise in &#8220;assisted deaths&#8221; poses challenges in accurate tracking due to changing\u200c recording methods. This \u2064troubling trend \u200bis not exclusive to \u200dCanada, as \u200beuthanasia rates surge in various parts of the \u200cWestern world. The concerning surge in euthanasia rates in Canada, where it ranks \u200cas the fifth-leading cause of death, highlights a broader trend \u200cin the Western world. \u200cChanging recording methods and the\u2063 rise of &#8220;assisted deaths&#8221; make tracking these figures\u200b accurately challenging. This troubling \u2062phenomenon extends beyond Canada, with euthanasia rates escalating in different parts of the Western world.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">About a year ago, I <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1661477689767919617?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">covered<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  the very sudden rise of euthanasia in Canada. As of 2022, the most recent year we have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/services\/publications\/health-system-services\/annual-report-medical-assistance-dying-2022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">data<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  available, euthanasia is now the fifth-leading cause of death in Canada, accounting for one out of every 25 fatalities. That\u2019s ahead of common conditions like liver disease, influenza, diabetes, and Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The number of so-called \u201cassisted deaths\u201d rose by more than 30% year-over-year, although precise metrics are getting hard to track. That\u2019s because, going forward, Canada <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StatCan_eng\/status\/1729539259076334034?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">says<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  euthanasia deaths won\u2019t be recorded as deaths caused by euthanasia. Instead, whatever reason the patient provides for seeking euthanasia will be recorded as the cause of death. So if you have a doctor kill you because you have arthritis, in Canada, that\u2019s now classified as a death due to arthritis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This coverup, like everything that has ever been attempted by the Canadian government, has failed miserably. Euthanasia is such an obviously booming industry that funeral homes have started <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/article\/canadian-death-cult#:~:text=In%202022%2C%204.1%20percent%20of,Parliament%20first%20introduced%20MAID%20legislation.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">offering<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  so-called \u201cturn-key\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.lapresse.ca\/screens\/f514affe-77c3-4052-ba88-e327c9ec6dc5%7C_0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">bundles<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, in which people can kill themselves and then have a burial, all for one low price. There\u2019s no need to have a terminal illness, either. Some Canadians are killing themselves because they <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12248669\/Euthanasia-tightens-grip-West-Shocking-rise-doctor-assisted-suicides.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">say<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  it\u2019s easier than getting disability benefits. The Canadian state-owned media loves this, of course. They <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/manitoba\/medically-assisted-death-could-save-millions-1.3947481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">claim<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  that euthanasia can save \u201cmillions\u201d in health care costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This isn\u2019t just happening in Canada. All over the western world, euthanasia is now more common than it\u2019s ever been. The number of British citizens who signed up for \u201cDignitas,\u201d a Swiss nonprofit that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-47158287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">performs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  euthanasia, increased by nearly 25% in 2023. In Switzerland, assisted deaths <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/life-aging\/swiss-assisted-suicides-rose-11-in-2023\/49198616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">jumped<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  by 11% last year. Meanwhile in Belgium, assisted suicide <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrt.be\/vrtnws\/en\/2024\/02\/27\/euthanasia-cases-increase-by-15-per-cent-in-belgium-in-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">increased<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  by more than 15%. Overall in Europe and Canada, euthanasia rates have increased by a quarter in just about 12 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1340-the-matt-walsh-show\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over in South Australia, \u201cmedical assistance in dying\u201d was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gogentleaustralia.org.au\/south_australia_marks_one_year_of_voluntary_assisted_dying#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20know%20from%20other%20states,died%2C%20110%20from%20VAD%20administration.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">legalized<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  a year ago, and the numbers of death permits they\u2019re issuing are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gogentleaustralia.org.au\/latest_figures_from_south_australia_show_steady_increase_in_vad_permits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">increasing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  at a rate of around 20% per quarter. And those numbers are going to continue to rise, in part because the public broadcaster in Australia is running segments like this promoting euthanasia. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Make a difference in someone\u2019s life today, by killing them. Give them a little something \u201cextra.\u201d That\u2019s the pitch in Australia, and it\u2019s working.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As you\u2019d expect, as euthanasia becomes more and more common all over the world, we\u2019re hearing more disturbing stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, there was the Canadian woman who was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10118619\/bc-cancer-agency-wait-times-surgery-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">diagnosed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  with cancer, only to be told by her doctors that she should consider euthanasia. She refused and fled to the United States, where she paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to receive treatment. Those are the kind of stories that make you realize there are a lot of very sick people in countries like Canada who don\u2019t have a lot of money lying around. And they\u2019re probably killing themselves. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s hard to imagine this trend getting any more bleak but somehow, it does.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s an incredible new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/im-28-and-im-scheduled-to-die?r=8ivfe&#038;utm_campaign=post&#038;utm_medium=web&#038;triedRedirect=true\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">story<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  in the Free Press about a 28-year-old woman in The Netherlands named Zoraya ter Beek. She plans to have a medical professional kill her sometime in May. That\u2019s not because she has any kind of terminal illness. Instead, she\u2019s been diagnosed with depression, autism, and borderline personality disorder. And on that basis, even though she lives in a nice house, with her boyfriend and her cats, she wants to die.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This woman appears to mean what she\u2019s saying. She\u2019s been highly visible in the Dutch press for many years, going as far back as 2017. And every time she\u2019s appeared since then, she\u2019s been promoting the idea of euthanasia or dying in some way. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, in 2017, a Dutch website profiled Zoraya, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtlnieuws.nl\/editienl\/laatste-videos-editienl\/video\/50121\/zoraya-22-draagt-niet-reanimerenpenning-respecteer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">writing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zoraya is 22 and does not want to be resuscitated if something happens to her. And of course she gets comments about that. More and more people are deciding to wear a do-not-resuscitate badge.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That same year, another Dutch outlet wrote an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pzc.nl\/bizar\/zonder-juiste-medicijnen-wil-zoraya-22-uit-oldenzaal-niet-verder-leven~a6575e9e\/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  about how Zoraya was planning her funeral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, Zoraya has provided the Free Press with a photograph of the coffin she plans to use, including a picture of herself in the coffin. She also posted extensively about her plans on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Confronted with all of this, Zoraya\u2019s psychiatrists didn\u2019t suggest any alternative. Instead, they told her she was doomed: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Zoraya]  recalled her psychiatrist telling her that they had tried everything, that \u2018there\u2019s nothing more we can do for you. It\u2019s never gonna get any better.\u2019<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s hard to sum up the agenda of the pharmaceutical companies and the medical industry any better than that one line. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing more we can do for you. It\u2019s never gonna get any better.\u201d I\u2019m sure that\u2019s a paraphrase, but it\u2019s horrifying. This is a woman who\u2019s not even 30-years-old and who has no physical issues whatsoever. Every single problem she has is in her head \u2014 and very vaguely defined. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A term like \u201cborderline personality disorder\u201d is one we\u2019re accustomed to hearing \u2014 and that many people have been diagnosed with \u2014 but very rarely does anyone stop to ask any fundamental questions about it. Questions like: How exactly can you diagnose a \u201cpersonality\u201d as \u201cdisordered.\u201d What is a properly ordered personality? What personality is this woman supposed to have? Well, never mind. Whatever these disorders are, her doctors have prescribed suicide to cure them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because this is what happens now if the antidepressant drugs don\u2019t work. Now they have another drug to permanently \u201cfix\u201d the problem. And conveniently, the same companies selling the antidepressants are also making the drugs that help kill people who realize the antidepressants don\u2019t work too well. A company called Valeant Pharmaceuticals, now known as Bausch Health, made the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/magazine\/2019\/12\/11\/my-terminally-ill-mother-wanted-end-her-own-life-what-would-it-take-fulfill-her-last-wish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">most commonly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  used drug in physician-assisted suicides, called Seconal. As it happens, that same company also makes Wellbutrin, the 18th-most prescribed medicine in the United States, with millions of prescriptions. When it came out, it was billed as a second-line, heavy-hitting antidepressant that\u2019s supposed to work where first-line SSRIs fail. But in the event the second-line antidepressant fails, now we know what the third line is. They\u2019ll just kill you.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That should disturb most people. But it doesn\u2019t \u2014 at least, not everywhere. One of the most revealing aspects of this Free Press article has been the reaction to it. In The Netherlands, there was outrage \u2014 not at the medical industry, but at the Free Press for covering the story. Zoraya shut down her social media accounts, claiming the Free Press article misrepresented her, without explaining how. A lot of her supporters in The Netherlands were also furious with the piece, saying it was a distorted view of what they call \u201cmedical assistance in dying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But in America, the reaction was different. Instead of writing puff pieces about Zoraya\u2019s decision, many mainstream outlets presented it accurately \u2014 as a horrifying crime against humanity, and a betrayal of the most basic principle of medicine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s how the author of The Free Press piece, Rupa Subramanya, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rupasubramanya\/status\/1774949448956649542?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">put it on X<\/a>: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve been struck by the reactions so far, some of which I anticipated. North Americans generally tend to be horrified at the Dutch acceptance of the right to die even for someone who is not terminally ill or their acceptance that there should be a more humane to commit suicide even when euthanasia is legal. The Dutch I spoke to find North Americans very conservative and religious when it comes to life and death.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Netherlands is a post-religious society, and the comments from there are 180 degrees from what I\u2019m getting from people in North America. We\u2019re living in two different epistemic worlds at the same point in time, in cultures that descend from fundamentally the same Western roots coming from the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Protestant Reformation. There is overwhelming support for euthanasia, assisted dying and a more humane way to commit suicide in The Netherlands than anywhere else in the Western world.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What this tells us is that the contagion that has now completely overtaken Europe, and in particular countries like The Netherlands, may be reversible in this country. It may not have completely taken hold here. And there are other signs of that, as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, late last year, the American Medical Association\u2019s house of delegates <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/cna\/american-medical-association-retains-opposition-to-assisted-suicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">considered<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  a resolution that would have officially endorsed the practice of euthanasia. Given the extent of the barbaric medical practices the AMA endorses already, it seemed likely that this resolution would pass. But as the National Catholic Register <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/cna\/american-medical-association-retains-opposition-to-assisted-suicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reports<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The House of Delegates of the American Medical Association \u2026 rebuffed an effort to change the organization\u2019s current stance in opposition to physician-assisted suicide, a development that drew praise from members of the Catholic Medical Association, which advocated against the change.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a victory, obviously. But the fact this resolution was even proposed, and seriously considered, tells us we\u2019re not very far removed from The Netherlands. It suggests that, unless the underlying causes of this trend are resolved, it will overtake this country as well. And the underlying causes \u2014 the reason young people are killing themselves \u2014 is that hope and a sense of purpose are becoming rare in modern society. That\u2019s true both here and in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that euthanasia offers a seemingly easy and \u201cpainless\u201d way out, more and more people, at younger and younger ages, will take advantage of it. They\u2019ll be put on antidepressants that don\u2019t work, and then suicide drugs after that. Somehow, the drug companies will suggest that, even though they\u2019ve sold SSRIs that accomplish nothing, you should still trust them when they say that their euthanasia drug is the solution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a pitch that only works when people have been lied to for years, and become profoundly confused about this basic fact: Life is not easy. Nobody is happy all the time. But we are alive for a reason. If we feel like life is meaningless, it\u2019s not because life has no meaning, it\u2019s just that we struggle to see it. The solution is to help those people see the meaning in life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pharma companies like Bausch Health are not providing that solution. They aren\u2019t trying to help people in their despair. They\u2019re only trying to profit off of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately a year ago, I reported on the rapid surge of euthanasia in Canada. By 2022, the latest year with accessible data, euthanasia ranks as the fifth leading cause of death in the country, representing one in every 25 fatalities. 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