Disabled Canadians are traumatized after being offered euthanasia multiple times.

Summary

Roger Foley struggles with health conditions and feels that Canadian healthcare has been neglecting his needs. He describes experiences of support workers neglecting their jobs and their agencies refusing to take responsibility for inadequate care. Instead, the healthcare system has responded to his condition and suicidal thoughts by suggesting MAiD.

Western Standard

Relevance

The article is relevant to Catholic hospitals because Foley comments on the misconception that only religious people oppose MAiD. He feels that the insistence and expansion of euthanasia promote ableist views about individuals with disabilities.

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