There’s a fascinating word that most people have never heard of called “genericide.” It’s when a brand name becomes so common that it starts being used as a general term for a product.
Genericide perfectly describes what’s happening in Canada’s euthanasia crisis because genericide implies the death of a word, and in this case that word involves death.
Since 2016, the term MAiD, for medical assistance in dying, has come to replace the words and terms that truthfully describe what’s going on: euthanasia, assisted suicide ... or, as one pro-life speaker in this week’s special coverage says, “a suicide question.”
Since 2016, 45,000 Canadians have died through legalized euthanasia, now reframed as MAiD. The B.C. Catholic has reported on the expansion of euthanasia since its legalization, and now we’re taking an in-depth look at the impact it’s having on Canadian society and how it’s changing our views on life, disability, and palliative care. B.C. Catholic staff, Canadian Catholic News writers, and freelancers have contributed stories about the victims of euthanasia, the people working to help them, and the efforts being made to stop this self-inflicted disaster. (Spoiler: it starts with prayer and fasting.)
The full series can be read below. Please share it far and wide.
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Previous reporting
By Terry O’Neill
‘Dead people don’t cost money’: Calculating the cost of ending 2,700 lives with MAiD
The grim calculus of tracking the cost of Medical Assistance in Dying shows that B.C. doctors receive $283.85 for every “MAiD...
MARCH 14, 2024
Daughters say mom’s MAiD death was illegal, while records confirm Fraser Health ignored its experts
A new set of secret documents that the Fraser Health Authority tried but failed to keep from the public confirms that its board...
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Fraser Health ordered to turn over MAiD documents to B.C. Catholic
A provincial adjudicator has ruled in favour of The B.C. Catholic and ordered the Fraser Health Authority to take the wraps off...
AUGUST 31, 2023
Fraser Health Authority letter ‘chills’ husband: ‘No wonder she ended up dead’
Beware entering a B.C. hospital if you are gravely wounded, elderly, or demented. That’s the warning from Richard Leskun, whose...
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Hospital put ‘do not resuscitate’ order on elderly woman, then urged husband to euthanize her
Richard Leskun remained at his wife Marilynn’s side nearly 24 hours a day after she was admitted to Abbotsford Regional...
FEBRUARY 01, 2023
Staff who opposed MAiD faced ‘ethical dilemmas,’ withheld Fraser Health documents show
B.C.’s largest regional health authority has finally taken the wraps off unpublished documents showing the introduction of...
JANUARY 17, 2023
‘Moral distress’ of euthanasia helps spur doctor’s hospice resignation
After at least five years of signing petitions and writing about his opposition to doctor-assisted suicide, Port Coquitlam...
DECEMBER 01, 2022
Delta Hospice launches counter-offensive against MAiD ‘tyranny’
A high-profile, pro-life B.C. hospice society has launched an innovative, three-pronged counter-offensive against Canada’s...
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Outcry grows against mental illness as grounds for euthanasia
In a little more than three months, federal law will permit Canadians who are mentally ill to access the country’s already...
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Dying with Dignity using Christian ‘compassion’ to sell euthanasia
Secular and Catholic experts say a new pro-euthanasia campaign aimed at persuading Christians that compassion should compel...
JULY 27, 2022
Assisted suicide a ‘cancer’ that’s destroying authentic palliative care: expert
Evidence is mounting that assisted suicide’s introduction into the Canadian medical system is not only undermining governments’...
MAY 12, 2022
Euthanasia promoters launch campaign to force MAiD compliance in Catholic hospitals
The B.C. chapters of the pro-assisted-suicide group Dying With Dignity Canada have launched a public-relations campaign aimed...
MAY 05, 2022
Secret talks, dismissed experts: documents show Fraser Health’s grim push of MAiD on hospices
Records obtained by The B.C. Catholic through a freedom of information request reveal the Fraser Health Authority decided to...
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
B.C. headed toward another record year for euthanasia deaths
New B.C. government statistics received by The B.C. Catholic show British Columbia is on track this year to record another...
JULY 28, 2021
Elderly cancer patient was pushed toward euthanasia, family says
As she rests on her queen-sized bed under a patterned comforter, her shoulders and head propped up by several pillows,...
JUNE 28, 2021
B.C. euthanasia deaths among highest in the world
The head of Canada’s Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is alarmed by new statistics showing that four per cent of all deaths in...
JUNE 28, 2021
Health authority holding euthanasia talks in secret
The B.C. Catholic is appealing to B.C.’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commission in a bid to obtain documents from...
MARCH 31, 2021
Patients need protection from unwanted euthanasia discussions, ethicists say
Two Canadian medical ethicists are calling on the federal government to prohibit health-care personnel from raising the subject...
MARCH 11, 2021
Patients being offered euthanasia contrary to Fraser Health policy, B.C. Catholic investigation finds
First of three stories. See also: Chilliwack death shows euthanasia system subject to abuse: couple An investigation...
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Chilliwack death shows euthanasia system subject to abuse: couple
See also: Patients being offered euthanasia contrary to Fraser Health policy, B.C. Catholic investigation finds Second...
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Euthanasia activists will be able to ‘recruit just about any unhappy soul’: pro-life chaplain
Third of three stories. See also: Patients being offered euthanasia contrary to Fraser Health policy, B.C. Catholic...
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Years before euthanasia legalized, Justice Proudfoot issued warning
Late Catholic judge dealt with issues of assisted suicideand clerical abuse years before the rest of society When the nice...
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
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