Dying to Get Out of Canada Canada’s euthanasia surge reveals the postmodern death cult’s grip—eroding truth, coercing the vulnerable, and exporting its lethal creed beyond its borders. By Thaddeus G. McCotter
https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/20/dying-to-get-out-of-canada/
Postmodernism is a death cult—one to be defended against at every cancerous step this doctrine of disorder and destruction takes in its attempt to eradicate truth and tradition. What prompts this latest warning to be vigilant and proactive in thwarting the postmodern death cult? It is coming for the most vulnerable among us.
As I warned back in 2023 about Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD):
“Why should you care about Canada and assisted suicide? Well, in the first place, the American Left is constantly importing other nations’ insane and injurious policies…
“Best to keep an eye on Canada’s MAiD policies. The American Left does, and they like what they see. It’s why they want to ensure Canada’s assisted-suicide laws roll downhill to America. Sure, all life’s paths lead but to the grave. But we shouldn’t hurry to get there.”
Leftist Canadians disagree. And, since they run the country, that is bad news not only for the rest of Canada but also for the world, for the postmodern death cult is transnational.
In the years since 2023, euthanasia-mania has swept the sterile white hallways of Canadian government-run healthcare. Per a recent article by Breitbart’s John Hayward:
“Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), Canada’s preferred euphemism for euthanasia, has become so popular that practitioners struggle to meet demand.
“According to government figures for 2023, the last full year of statistics available, MAiD accounted for 4.7 percent of deaths nationwide, making Canada second only to the Netherlands. In Quebec, the figure is over seven percent, giving it the highest euthanasia rate in the world.”
The disciples of the postmodern death cult will argue, “So, what is wrong with personal autonomy?”
Firstly, there is increasing evidence that the patient’s personal autonomy no longer has primacy in the decision to end their life. As Hayward notes, “The Canadian public still seems to support MAiD, but with growing unease that lofty talk of ‘patient autonomy’ is a smokescreen for people being pushed into euthanasia as a cost-effective alternative to prolonged medical treatment.” This is especially disconcerting, as the government-run healthcare system is severely strained financially. In Canada, Grandma being pushed into taking, as Dr. Obama suggested, the blue pill is a distinct prospect—and a not-too-distant one for Americans?
It is certainly one way—however inhumane—to reduce Canada’s healthcare costs by reducing demand. It is reported that Canada’s Standing Committee on Finance is recommending to “no longer provide charitable status to anti-abortion organizations.” If parliament follows this recommendation, between increased euthanasia and abortion, Canada will be reducing both ends of its healthcare demand equation. Clearly, the postmodern death cult wants to kill you coming or going.
Secondly, while Canada’s healthcare system is financially strained, it is even more morally strained. Thus, the biggest healthcare concern is not why a growing number of Canadians who are not terminally ill want to end their lives, but how to kill them more quickly. In the instances of the young (under discussion) and the mentally ill (eligible in two years), this will clearly go against the full, informed consent of the patient. Hayward reports how “critics say Canadian doctors are not only making assisted suicide available but actively pushing it as an option—even for people whose only medical or psychological complaint was thinking about suicide.”
So, too, for some in the Canadian medical community, the depths of MAiD’s abhorrent moral abyss must be plumbed ever further. As CatholicVote reports, “The Quebec College of Physicians recently told the Daily Mail that it still regards euthanasia as an ‘appropriate treatment’ for infants with disabilities and severe medical syndromes.” So much for the patient’s “informed consent,” which will instead be delegated to parents and, quite probably, doctors. Like the vile Nazi doctors who exterminated the disabled, the Canadian proponents assert their altruistic aims for engaging in this heinous practice. But the habits of the heart know better. There are no good intentions in paving MAiD’s road to Hell.
MAiD’s moral augers ill for all doctors. The vast majority of doctors pursue their vocation to heal, not kill, their patients. This has proven to be a roadblock in Canada’s government-run healthcare system’s ability to “meet the demand” for euthanasia. In Canada, “Canada’s doctors actually kill their patients, rather than providing them with tools for suicide and allowing them to pull the fatal trigger themselves.” Ergo, what will the government do when many doctors continue to refuse to kill their patients, and the backlog of euthanasia requests mounts? Given the experience with the postmodern death cult’s adoration of abortion, doubtless doctors who refuse to kill will be compelled to do it or else suffer professional censure and/or expulsion.
Those doctors who have already taken the dark leap from healer to killer will not remain unscathed. After all, it is their once noble profession that has been desecrated, their psychological disorder wrought by such a transmogrification of their chosen vocation and perverse inversion of the Hippocratic Oath; and, most importantly, their immortal soul that is now imperiled. Hayward cites The Atlantic: “Medical professionals who decided early on to reorient their career toward assisted death no longer feel compelled to tiptoe around the full, energetic extent of their devotion to MAiD. Some clinicians in Canada have euthanized hundreds of patients.” A criminologist would call them “serial killers,” but when sanctioned by the state, the practice of medicine becomes a license to kill, be it through abortion or euthanasia.
Given many doctors’ rightful reticence to stop healing and start killing, one possible means of expanding Canadian euthanasia is “training” and certifying more MAiD “specialists” and the use of “MAiD Houses,” which is “essentially a form of hospice care that gives patients a warm and comfortable space to be killed in… Patients spend their final minutes in a La-Z-Boy recliner.”
This is the epitaph the postmodern death cult is etching on the tombstone of a morally bankrupt Western civilization. The only question, then, is whether you are going to put your foot down or your feet up?
An American Greatness contributor, the Hon. Thaddeus G. McCotter (M.C., Ret.) served Michigan’s 11th Congressional district from 2003-2012, He served as Chair of the Republican House Policy Committee and as a member of the Financial Services, Joint Economic, Budget, Small Business, and International Relations Committees. Not a lobbyist, he is also a contributor to Chronicles, a frequent public speaker and moderator for public policy seminars, and a co-host of “John Batchelor: Eye on the World” on CBS radio, among sundry media appearances.
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