Canada is turning into a death cult,. They dress it up with the term MAID—“Medical Assistance in Dying”— but that’s just a euphemism for euthanasia.
Once you legalize assisted suicide, the brakes are gone. The rules — “only for the terminally ill,” “only adults,” “only with safeguards”— soon evaporate. They always do.
Even The Atlantic—hardly a Christian or conservative voice—just ran a feature called “Canada Is Killing Itself.” They describe euthanasia like it’s a normal medical specialty: hotel conferences, tote bags, drink tickets, networking mixers. Ten years ago, what these people call “work” would’ve been called homicide. Now it’s got lanyards and hotel ballrooms.
Since The Canadian Parliament legalized euthanasia in 2016, every “safeguard” has collapsed. First you needed to be diagnosed as terminal, now you don’t need to be terminal. You don’t even need a diagnosis. Just say you’re suffering and you qualify. Some are now pushing for teenagers, even kids to choose death at the hands of a Doctor Death. But the logic demands it: if autonomy is god, who’s to say a 14-year-old doesn’t have the “right” to die? This is the logical, err, illogical inevitability of making human autonomy an idol.
Doctors call it “energizing” work. They describe killing patients as “happy-sad,” then grab a coffee on the way home. Death is just another shift on the schedule, and another day at the office. That’s how quickly a culture of death gets normalized.
Here’s the bottom line: autonomy is real, but limited. You don’t choose your birth, and you don’t choose the length of your days. That’s in God’s hands. When a nation makes autonomy absolute—when it bows to it as an idol—there’s no logical stopping point. If death on demand is a “right,” then eventually everyone qualifies.
And this euphemism M-A-I-D, Medical Assistance in Dying, is the way to try to hide the moral importance of the issue we’re talking about here. We’re talking about a nation killing itself.
That’s what’s unfolding in Canada. Not compassion. Not dignity. Just the machinery of a society convinced that killing is caring. And Seventh-day Adventist Christians need to find their voice on this issue.
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“Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13).