An article published in the Toronto Sun on April 25 and written by Brian Passifiume concerns David Baltzer, a Canadian veteran who was offered euthanasia instead of medical treatment in December 2019.
Baltzer, a two tour Afghanistan combat veteran with the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI,) told the Toronto Sun that:
he was offered MAID in Dec. 23, 2019 — possibly making him among the first Canadian soldiers offered therapeutic suicide by the federal government.
“It made me wonder, were they really there to help us, or slowly groom us to say ‘here’s a solution, just kill yourself.” MORE
I’M A PERSIAN GULF COMBAT VET WITH PTSD, BUT THE PTSD IS FROM HAVING BEEN MARRIED WITH CHILDREN
^^^^^ LMFAO
“Therapeutic suicide?” WTF?
When abortion was first “legalized,” it was touted as “safe and rare.” Now it’s just another form of birth control, and organizations like Planned Parenthood make no bones about this. No one even bothers to claim that abortion is rare anymore.
Theraputic suicide in Canada is following the same path. It started with “people with terminal illnesses should be allowed to end their lives.” Gradually, the definition of terminal illness will mutate into “any condition we don’t think you should live with” and will likely progress to “any condition we don’t think you deserve to live with” or “it’s inconvenient.” I am not downplaying PTSD, but that condition, in and of itself, is not really a terminal illness.
In Canada and many EU nations, there is nationalized healthcare. For a variety of reasons, this system doesn’t really work very well, and the systems themselves are under financial and time pressures. It’s only a short step from offering MAiD as an alternative to terminally ill people to mandating euthanasia for patients whom the government believes may be a burden on a nationalized health care system. Have diabetes? Your gone. Heart disease? Bye bye. Advanced arthritis which makes it painful to walk? Adios. Sure, you may have years left, but some government bureaucrat may decide that you are just too much of a burden on their national health care and it would be cheaper and easier to eliminate you sooner rather than later.
There are concepts like “slippery slope” and “for the common good” that I ascribe to, and the easier you make it for people to be killed, the easier it is for the government to kill you. A national health care system that murders a significant portion (or all) of its patients is certainly cheaper and easier to administer, but is that what you want?
Nazi Germany practiced euthanasia and eugenics to a deadly conclusion. Nazis considered the Jews to be subhumans, so off they went to extermination camps. The same was true of mentally retarded people, slavic people and, for some reason, gypsies. But according to progressives, I’m the Nazi.
Lemme add babies/kids/adults with cleft palates and gays to your list.
Oh yeah, lefties, you read right. Gays, too.
One phrase that pisses me off is, “We treat animals better than humans”. That might be but animals do not have a soul.
MAID is insidious; it is Satan in a ballgown and if we continue down this path we will succumb to evil.
They offered me MAID due to the PTSD I suffered from my wife. I said, “That’s a great idea, but how do I get her to take it?”
My first experience with PTSD was a Vietnam vet who tried to kill himself at a bar, in the ambulance, and at the hospital.
Offhand, I’d say if you really wanted a fellow like that to suicide, all you’d need to do is not stop him.
But when it comes to one on the cusp, I think Canada crosses the line into being actively malevolent. They not only facilitate it, they seem to ENCOURAGE it.
Anything to separate a man from God, I suppose.
Because that’s what MAiD is TRULY assisting…
So I may have mentioned it before, I’m back serving in hospice again after taking a year off because my previous company became ghoulish and disgusting in courting a buyout by UHG. In that year off hospice I worked at the veterans home in Knoxville.
I truly wish you all could see this place, it is beyond incredible. I wish everyone had access to care this on point but our veterans earned this and they all deserve it. I have always been a sucker for our veterans which is how someone lured me to work at this facility. There is a small privately owned hospice that has a presence in this facility due to their non-corporate practices and respect for the veterans and their families. That hospice approached me and I am no longer employed by the veterans home. I now represent this small hospice caring for veterans in this incredible home. Tennessee State Veterans Home Ben Atchley. Look them up.
I have the most amazing job ever, hands down. When my people pass we do not discreetly remove them out the side door, we have an honor walk with TAPS and all staff and veterans who are willing and able line the halls. The vets are helped upright and they SALUTE their fellow veterans. They may be so exhausted by this effort they sleep the next 24 hours but by God they do it.
That being said, I’m in tears of rage reading about this MAID shit being pushing on any veterans by their so-called leaders.
Absolute fucking rage.
Hoo hoo, God bless you and your work every single day.
Canada has slipped its disco. Even the UK quietly purchased more F 35s.
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/04/canada-has-a-clear-message-for-the-f-35-fighter/
“Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI,) ” that just sounds uber gay.
That wonderful free socialized medicine the Lefties want here. You’re either well or they give you a manual on assisted suicide.