Yes, the pause has been good news, but the work is not over, as you describe. The heart transplant will be incredibly difficult. The current sickness officially started 10 years ago when the Canadian Medical Association withdrew from the World Medical Association so it could go neutral on assisted suicide and change its ethics. However it has even deeper roots in eugenics in the early 1900’s. And, of course, even deeper than that as man thinks he can be his own god.
Part of the solution is not to depend on government. Communities of care need to rise up and offer support, and we need to lose the idea that health care is free. It is not. There is a cost. And for true care we all need to pitch in. We need to make care so good that no one would even think of assisted suicide, but would want the care and love of their community until their journeys end in natural death.
It's a deep work that needs to be done indeed. The easiest part is to be outraged. I think it's a real Philemon moment for believers: "Imagine all the good that can be done..."
We've trained ourselves in Canada to depend on the government in such an essential way, with a strange learned helplessness that it's hard to imagine how to rewire that synaptic pathway.
Yes, the pause has been good news, but the work is not over, as you describe. The heart transplant will be incredibly difficult. The current sickness officially started 10 years ago when the Canadian Medical Association withdrew from the World Medical Association so it could go neutral on assisted suicide and change its ethics. However it has even deeper roots in eugenics in the early 1900’s. And, of course, even deeper than that as man thinks he can be his own god.
Part of the solution is not to depend on government. Communities of care need to rise up and offer support, and we need to lose the idea that health care is free. It is not. There is a cost. And for true care we all need to pitch in. We need to make care so good that no one would even think of assisted suicide, but would want the care and love of their community until their journeys end in natural death.
It's a deep work that needs to be done indeed. The easiest part is to be outraged. I think it's a real Philemon moment for believers: "Imagine all the good that can be done..."
We've trained ourselves in Canada to depend on the government in such an essential way, with a strange learned helplessness that it's hard to imagine how to rewire that synaptic pathway.