Recently, the Pillar reported: “Nine years ago, the Canadian government legalized a Medical Assistance in Dying program, making physician assisted suicide widely accessible across Canada for those who qualified for the program. To date, roughly 75,000 people have died from MAiD, including many Catholics.”
Now, I don’t really like the current medical definitions for active euthanasia vs. passive euthanasia, but here’s the basics of the vocabulary that weak bioethicists throw around today: Active euthanasia involves deliberately causing a patient’s death, while passive euthanasia involves withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, allowing the patient to die naturally.
The problem with their definition is that both are murder, which is why I don’t really like the moral theology downgrading of passive murder as somehow “not as bad” as active murder.
That being said, most people do not understand just how active the current forms of euthanasia have actually become in so-called “developed countries.” Canada (arguably the best-catechized country in the world just 100 years ago) has probably become the worst perpetrator of euthanasia in the Western Hemisphere. Corruptio optimi pessima…
Right about the time the Pillar came out with the above story, one of my donors from Canada sent me the story of an active euthanasia they tried to stop. He gave me permission to share it anonymously. As you read it, notice that the “patient” (name also changed below) was walking around just fine on his own the very day he was killed. Yes, the very day he was killed by clinicians he was healthy. This is part of the email I received:
I live in a condo complex made up of four buildings, each with 24 units, arranged around a large central garden filled with trees and flowers. Across the lawn, in the building opposite mine, lives my neighbor Ron and his wife. Ron has been battling cancer for several years, and now it is terminal. One morning in early June 2025, I saw Ron walking with a man and a woman—likely relatives. They slowly made their way around the property, stopping to admire the trees and flowers. After circling the complex, walking about 300 yards, they sat briefly on a bench on the lawn. After about 15 minutes outside, they returned to their building.
Just after noon that same day, I was sitting on another bench reading when I noticed a car pull into the lot. A man got out—presumably a doctor, given the stethoscope and bag in his hand. He walked quickly to Ron’s building and was buzzed in. A short time later, I saw him exit the building, get into his car, and drive off. I didn’t think much of it until about an hour later, when a plain white van arrived. The back doors opened, and a gurney was pulled out. The attendants entered Ron’s building and, within 15 minutes, emerged with a body covered in a white sheet.
This wasn’t the first orchestrated death in our complex. To me, it carried a feeling of real evil. As this is an over-55 community, people do pass away suddenly, from time to time. In those cases, the police always respond and remain until the coroner or morgue service removes the body. But in this case of assisted suicide, there were no police, no investigation—just quiet efficiency… And then the family arranged a golf-themed “Celebration of Life,” and people attended as if it were a normal event. Unfortunately, it is becoming normal in Canada.
So what do you do to prevent this in your own family? For starters, make sure to watch my instructions on TM’s show last year (which we had to remove from YT but is still on Rumble.)