A Severe ME Patient in Canada Approved for Assisted Dying Has a Message over the UK Government DWP Benefit Cuts

A severe ME patient in Canada approved for assisted dying has a message over the UK government DWP benefit cuts

A woman approved for assisted dying who lives with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in Canada wants to issue a stark warning to the UK government over its plans to cut chronically ill and disabled people’s benefits, labelling them a “death march off a cliff”. In tandem with Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill currently making its way through parliament, she has argued the UK risks putting “the cart before the horse”. In this context, she h…

'I lost my mum to cancer at 18 - now I'm fighting for assisted dying to be legalised'

Jordan Findlay was still at school when she became a full-time carer for her mum, who was dying of terminal cancer.

Disabled Man Fighting for Life as Canadian Government Doctors Push to Euthanize Him - Nemos News Network

Reported by: Slay A disabled man is campaigning to prevent state-funded doctors from euthanizing him under the Canadian government’s radical “assisted suicide” laws. Roger Foley says he’s being pressured to die after spending nine years in a hospital. He revealed that the state-funded facility is now pressuring him to choose euthanasia over supportive care. Foley, who suffers from a severe neurological condition known as spinocerebellar ataxia, …

Brother of Disabled Man to Canadian Hospital: He is ‘Dying in Front of You’

(The Dallas Express) – The brother of a disabled Canadian man is pleading with his hospital – which pushed euthanasia and cut off food and water nearly one month ago – to stop him from “dying in front of you.” Instead of helping, The Dallas Express has learned, hospital officials told his brother to stop contacting them. “Your patient is dying in front of you and you are silent… you have all the power, my brother does not,” wrote Robert Foley, t…