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Kelsi Sheren

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1136 total appearances

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

It's none of that.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

It's eugenics.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

It's a eugenics program.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

I mean, great question.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

There's a technical term, and then there's the terminology where you basically get rid of all the difficult eaters, all of the mentally disabled, all of the vulnerable, all of the people that are a burden on the system.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

That's just a really plain-based way to put it.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

when you cost the government a lot of money, when you cost society a lot of money, when you're basically not an everyday well-rounded person, somebody with ALS, somebody with Down syndrome, somebody with spinal bifida, somebody who's a quadriplegic like a friend of mine in a wheelchair, a friend of mine who has a degenerative disorder gets offered mate every day, he's in a hospital.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

So it's less about what does the UN call it and what does it actually mean for a society?

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

Absolutely.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

And they're just not what society wants as a whole because they become a burden.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

Think of World War I. It was veterans.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

It was shell shock veterans.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

It was the women that were difficult.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

So people like me definitely would have been lobotomized for sure.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

And then you have the children that were born with some form of ailment, right?

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

And if you take a look at the way that Canada has been discussing it, and we'll go back to what your question is, is that even the College of Physicians is suggesting zero to one, we should be able to euthanize for things like Down syndrome, for things that are born with a malformality that are going to cause...

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

A lifelong of suffering, even though we don't know that to be true because they can't consent, they have no free will, and they're zero to one years old.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

So we're already suggesting that.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

That's very, very open topic.

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"Assisted Dying is Monetising Death" โ€” Kelsi Sheren

It's been in the media now for the past few weeks.