Dr Jack King’s new book on doctor-assisted suicide – Part Four
Dr Vernon Coleman
Note from Vernon Coleman
With Dr Jack King’s permission I am publishing extracts from his new book `Anyone who tells you that doctor-assisted suicide is always dignified and painless is lying. Here’s the proof’ which has just been published and should be available on Amazon. Dr King’s new book is the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of doctor assisted suicide/euthanasia ever published and it will no doubt be suppressed, ignored or attacked by reviewers who haven’t read it. Please encourage everyone you know to read and share these extracts and then to buy copies of Dr King’s book to send to members of the House of Lords (who will decide, probably on September 14th, whether doctor assisted suicide is to become legal in the UK), to MPs (who have already voted in favour of the new Bill but who will in due course have another chance to vote) and to journalists. The price of the paperback version of this book includes no royalties for Dr King.
If enough readers help and send copies to members of the House of Lords, we can defeat this Bill. But if not then I fear that the Bill will go through and life will never be the same again. Those who have falsely claimed that doctor assisted suicide is always painless and dignified will win. And the euthanasia legislation will go through. It will never be repealed and within five years the British State will be legally able to kill anyone who is disabled, old, poor, unemployed and depressed. They’ll kill children too. Look back over the years and you will see, I am afraid, that my predictions have been uncannily accurate about covid and many other things. I fear I’m right about this too. If you don’t fight this Bill then you will have no reason to complain when those you love become victims.
You should be able to buy a copy of `Anyone who tells you doctor-assisted suicide is always dignified and painless is lying: Here’s the proof’ by Dr Jack King, if you go to the Amazon website. Of course, there is always a chance that it will have mysteriously become `currently unavailable’.
Vernon Coleman 2025
It is important to study what has happened in other countries where euthanasia has been introduced. When you look at what has happened elsewhere, it is not surprising that millions are terrified at the prospect of living in a country where ‘The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill’ becomes law.
The initial idea is always that euthanasia will be available only to patients who are at the very end of a long process of dying. The idea is that those patients will be liberated from their pain and suffering and will be allowed to die in quiet dignity.
But that’s not what happens. It is definitely not what happens.
Look at every other country which has introduced euthanasia.
In Canada people are being murdered because they are jobless and poor and without hope. People are being killed for social reasons. Euthanasia will be available for patients with mental illness in 2027.
There is now no doubt that assisted dying is being abused in Canada. Members of the group who helped to legalise it have admitted that doctors are coercing patients into ending their lives. According to the BBC, one in twenty deaths in Canada is now a result of doctor assisted suicide. In some provinces, the incidence of suicide is much higher with the number of deaths officially registered as suicide approaching 8%. Suicide has become a major cause of death. If doctors refuse to cooperate in a suicide, patients can merely contact another doctor and have their lethal poison posted to them.
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) was introduced for the terminally ill in Canada in 2016 after a campaign group took a case to the country’s Supreme Court.
Lobby groups around the world are increasingly aggressive in their promotion of suicide. There are groups which are professionally organised with seemingly inexhaustible funds and full-time staff. One group has produced a book called ‘Children’s Activity Book for Assisted Dying’ and Dignity in Dying has published the ‘MAiD Activity Book for Children’.
In the UK, the organisation Dignity in Dying is a limited company with offices in Oxford Street in the centre of London, a large staff, a wages bill of £916,883 and an income of over £2,600,000.
When MAiD was first introduced in Canada, the legislation required that death be reasonably foreseeable. (This is what you get when lawyers become involved. Surely, the death of everyone alive is reasonably foreseeable?)
Assisted dying has since been rapidly expanded, with disabled people given access in 2021 and those with mental health conditions set to join them by 2027. Legal challenges to the law meant that the legislation was ruled unconstitutional and death by doctor had to be made available to anyone who has a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability that is irreversible and which caused ‘enduring and intolerable’ suffering.
(The availability of assisted dying to those who are disabled explains why the number of disorders officially recognised as ‘disabled’ in the UK has been expanded so dramatically in recent years. The menopause is now recognised as a disability. And the explosion in the number of people encouraged to register as suffering from a mental illness of one sort or another is explicable. For example, in the UK there are now around nine million people who have been officially diagnosed as being autistic. It’s difficult to know precisely how many people in the UK satisfy the official requirements for disability but my professional view is that it is at least half of the entire population.)
By 2025, there had been 60,301 deaths by MAiD reported in Canada though I suspect that the real figure is much higher since deaths are sometimes listed according to the patient’s previous illness. Some medical colleges in Canada have been advising against referring to MAiD on patients’ long-form death certificates, in a move which could distort the true numbers of people using it.
People on lower incomes who were offered the scheme were more likely to opt for it. In leaked footage from a video call last year between BCCLA staff and a Canadian disabled patients’ group, an employee at the campaigning group admitted “we are seeing MAiD being abused”. In one instance, they spoke of a patient who had been approved for assisted dying on the grounds of suffering from hearing loss.
Canada’s ‘killing by doctor’ regime has evolved and now bears no resemblance to the original plan. Many of the people who are killed are young and in good physical health. Canada has seen a massive rise in the number of people being deliberately killed by their doctors, and euthanasia is rapidly becoming one of Canada’s fastest growing causes of death. Many patients (and their relatives) have reported that they’ve been badgered to accept MAiD.
‘Today, it seems that the concept of wanting treatment is coming, to some medical staff, to be seen as absurd – that you actually want treatment and not death,’ said an anti-MAiD activist. ‘You’re now being seen as terrible for wanting to be treated. You’re costing the system.’
Just as worrying is the fact that 27% of Canadians believe that MAiD should be expanded to include people who aren’t ill but who are poor. And 28% of Canadians would offer ‘death by doctor’ to the homeless. Just 20% would offer MAiD to anyone for any reason. Over half of Canadians said that people who couldn’t receive the treatment they needed (for financial or other reasons) should be offered ‘death by doctor’. There is no doubt now that death is offered to many Canadians as the only ‘treatment’ for their suffering.
If the new euthanasia Bill gets through the House of Lords in the UK, I have no doubt that within a short time, children with autism, Asperger’s and ADHD will be quietly euthanized. Schoolchildren who are miserable will be quietly euthanized without their parents’ knowledge or consent. And the law will be extended further and further. (If the Bill doesn’t get through the House of Lords then campaigners will try, try and try again. It is the fashion these days for voters to be told to vote again ‘if they get things wrong’ and vote against the wishes of the elite. Threats never go away.)
A doctor from the Quebec College of Physicians in Canada has called for the legalised euthanasia of new-born babies up to one-year-old if they are deemed to have ‘severe deformations, very grave and severe syndromes’ and a short life expectancy. The policy seems to be ‘They’re not going to live long so why not kill them early on and save everyone a lot of money?’
Since a baby cannot give its consent, such a law would open the way to the killing of patients with dementia. Once killing without consent is legal, the number of possible victims expands exponentially. The same medical body has claimed that children between the ages of 14 and 17 should be able to request their own death if they are experiencing ‘persistent and intolerable suffering’. That should get rid of at least half of all teenagers. This is the way that death by doctor expands. It is hardly surprising that the Lancet has reported that the rising number of deaths in Canada by euthanasia and assisted suicide have quickly become normalised, and experts are worried that: ‘What was originally conceived as an exceptional practice in medicine has quickly become normalised. Even before the law is set to be expanded to include mentally ill patients, we already have worryingly high numbers of people dying’.
The Canadian province of Quebec updated its law in June 2023 to allow people to make advance directives specifying conditions under which they could receive medical assistance in dying without giving further consent. (Under the law, however, medical staff providing assistance in such cases would technically be guilty of homicide under Canadian federal criminal law. Nevertheless, prosecution decisions are made by provinces and it’s a fair bet that no one would be prosecuted.) Quebec seems keen on death by doctor and in 2022, 14% of Quebec’s organ donors were people who chose medically assisted death.
Finally, another problem has appeared with the death by doctor schemes.
The name ‘criminal healthcare serial killing’ is given to the targeting of patients who have the same or similar clinical features to MAiD eligible patients. Doctors and nurses who have been involved with MAiD draw on similar rationales to kill patients who seem to them to have little or no value (and are described as ‘useless eaters’). They convince themselves that they are easing patient suffering but they also get pleasure from the sense of power that comes with killing patients. Healthcare serial killing can remain undetected for long periods due to poor surveillance and a lack of awareness among other members of staff. Plus, authorities may ignore concerns from colleagues, patients, relatives or witnesses. Doctors who practise within the MAiD system are exempt from criminal culpability for homicide and grow to enjoy the power they have experienced. They may think that they are entitled to kill patients who require a good deal of care.
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