Dennis Prager Show - Canada Expands Assisted Suicide Programs
Aired: 2024-10-15
Duration: 04:22


=== A Doctor's Dilemma (03:38) ===

[00:00:00]  A woman in Canada reports the Daily Telegraph in England.
[00:00:06]  Here is the headline.
[00:00:08]  I went for a mastectomy and they offered me assisted dying.
[00:00:13]  Canadian cancer patient reveals.
[00:00:17]  This is about as frightening a piece that I recall reading.
[00:00:22]  You too.
[00:00:24]  It's shocking.
[00:00:26]  A woman undergoing life-saving cancer surgery in Canada was offered assisted suicide by doctors as she was about to enter the operating room.
[00:00:38]  My mind is absolutely, it's filled with thoughts.
[00:00:52]  I'll give you one of them.
[00:00:55]  It is clear that getting a medical degree does not affect your character in a positive way.
[00:01:04]  It may not affect it in a negative way, but it has no moral influence.
[00:01:12]  None.
[00:01:14]  If you're a rotten human being when you become a doctor, you're a rotten human being when you become a doctor.
[00:01:22]  After you become a doctor.
[00:01:26]  I think, though, I may be wrong.
[00:01:29]  I may have tried to be a bit too generous.
[00:01:33]  I think there is a danger.
[00:01:37]  There is a danger in everything we do.
[00:01:39]  There's a danger in crossing the street.
[00:01:42]  There is a danger that, given one's power over people, that is unique to the profession of medicine, It is quite possible to become a worse human being once you become a doctor.
[00:02:02]  You become, you will be, you can easily fall into arrogance.
[00:02:11]  I know better, you non-medical fool.
[00:02:16]  A woman undergoing life-saving cancer surgery in Canada was offered assistance suicide by doctors as she was about to enter the operating room.
[00:02:33]  Yeah.
[00:02:36]  The people who have opposed legalized euthanasia or legalized suicide have always had a very powerful argument.
[00:02:49]  The doctor's role should always be to save life, not to take it.
[00:02:56]  If people start fearing doctors entering their room prior to serious surgery, the metamorphosis of the medical profession will have a very, very damaging effect on society.
[00:03:13]  The case comes as the number of people opting to end their lives under the country's Medical Assistance in Dying has risen 13-fold, from 1,018 to 13,242 in 2022. Assisted Dying,

=== Consequences Of Secularism (00:44) ===

[00:03:38]  which was legalized in Canada in 2016 is now the fifth leading cause of death in Canada.
[00:03:48]  This goes under the heading of the consequences of secularism.
[00:04:00]  Everybody knows how too much religion could be a problem, but nobody acknowledges how too much secularism can be a problem.
[00:04:11]  In effect, that has been my life's work, to explain the consequences of the death of God and the Bible in Western society.