(LifeSiteNews) — As the global press grappled with a string of gut-wrenching, dystopian euthanasia stories – the latest of which is the killing of a young Spanish gang rape victim – the Canadian press is still publishing overtly eugenicist propaganda.
On March 25, CTV published a story on the impending death – now carried out – of John Maloney, who was suffering from partial blindness. The headline: “3 days before his medically assisted death, this Alberta man is reflecting on ‘his right to die.’”
The CTV suicide puff piece detailed John Maloney’s choice of music to serve as the soundtrack to his lethal injection; noted approvingly that Maloney, “[a]s a Christian,” was “preparing for his final moments” as “a practice in bodily autonomy,” and quotes Maloney as saying that although God forbids suicide, he thinks that God “gets it.” It is enough to make one shudder. (The press only quotes religiosity approvingly when it can be done in service of an anti-Christian agenda.)
Of course, CTV noted that Maloney is undergoing tests to “determine if he’s eligible for organ donation” and quoted a friend who said that “I just so much appreciate and honour the choices he’s making for such altruistic purposes.” The article summarizes his ailments, which form the basis for his euthanasia eligibility: congenital cataracts, blindness, and Charles Bonnet Syndrome, which can cause “weird hallucinations.”
“If someone else in my exact same position can live their life, I say, ‘Go hard,’” Maloney told CTV. “If you have a right to choose to live, then I have the right to choose to die. It’s about autonomy. It’s about choice.” He attempted suicide in 2024, and then discovered that under “Track 2 MAID,” he could get a medical professional to do the job for him. His first euthanasia assessor denied him; the second signed off. A third concurred “after what he said was an emotional quality of life evaluation.”
Again, this is yet another story of a suicidal man shopping around for assessors and “providers” willing to clear him and kill him. That, of course, was not mentioned.
CTV’s framing was crystal clear: This man’s life was not worth living, and good on Canada for facilitating and funding his suicide (a word, of course, that we cannot use anymore because it might force us to consider the moral implications of what we are doing).
Their conclusion is not that such stories are becoming horrifyingly common, but instead that Alberta’s incoming laws to protect the vulnerable and suicidal would “eliminate the choice of those with degenerative disorders who may want to prepare for their death.” The article does mention that disability rights advocates have praised Alberta’s incoming legislation restricting euthanasia, but hasten to condemn the laws with words from Maloney:
“We can all be vulnerable relative to the situation we’re in … I think vulnerability is such an emotionally charged word. It’s just a blanket, like, ‘Okay, all disabled people are vulnerable.’ No, they’re not. I don’t consider myself vulnerable.”
I’d bet good money that CTV asked Maloney a leading question specifically to get a condemnation of Alberta’s laws to protect the vulnerable – which, for the record, have been praised across the board by not only disability rights advocates, but many who see Canada’s euthanasia regime as a runaway train – from a man with a scheduled death date. Because this is a “news story,” CTV could not technically editorialize – but their editorial stance was made crystal clear, nonetheless.
Let’s be clear: We are watching the normalization of suicide in real time. Already some are arguing that suicide prevention for the suicidal and desperate constitutes a violation of the “right to die.” John Maloney wasn’t dying. He wasn’t terminally ill. He could have had a much longer life. But he was suicidal, and after failing to attempt suicide, he discovered that the government had passed an expansion of euthanasia eligibility for people just like him. My life isn’t worth living, Maloney said.
We know, said the government. Ready when you are.
