Offered Assisted Death Instead of Surgery

Another horror story from inside Canada's Broken Healthcare System

Today I received a photo and post from a Dr friend of mine, she pointed out the most wild case of MAiD overreach I’ve seen in a while, and to be frank there has been several a day. This was what was stated "a Canadian citizen, injured in a workplace accident, was denied the surgery he needs and instead he was offered assisted dying (MAiD) by a healthcare practitioner and the system”.

When contacted by Alex Schadenberg, the Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition he stated:

“She (the doctor) didn’t push suicide on me. To clarify, I’ve been begging for surgery and they have denied me. If I ask for assisted suicide they have everything ready to go. That’s the point I’m trying to get across. I asked for these forms out of anger and got them immediately.”

Canada’s healthcare system is supposed to embody compassion, empathy, and healing—but right now, it's failing us in spectacular fashion. Let’s put yourself in this man’s shoes, picture yourself injured in a workplace accident, in pain, terrified, and desperately needing surgery, already knowing the system was broken but hopeful that at least you could see a Dr in the next 18-24 months. A bleak reality every tax paying Canadian is currently facing now in Canada. You reach out for help, trusting that your healthcare system will take care of you, only to be faced with an unthinkable offer: assisted death (MAID). That's not healthcare—it's a horror story. Sadly, this nightmare isn't hypothetical; it's a grim reality that's unfolding right here in Canada and has been for years. Sadly, mainstream media will never expose or challenge the disturbing expansion of this program and its underlying purpose: removing anyone considered a burden—injured workers, individuals battling mental illness, suffering children, the elderly, Indigenous communities, the homeless, and even our VETERANS.

This tragedy isn't just a one-off mistake; it highlights an alarming trend and reveals how severely our healthcare system has deteriorated. When bureaucratic cost-cutting measures, red tape, and institutional indifference become more important than saving human lives, we have truly lost our way, and I am aware that I’m not saying anything new here other than pointing out the very obvious. But MAID was sold to the public as a lie, it was supposed to be a compassionate choice available to people facing unbearable, incurable suffering—never a convenient alternative to providing actual medical care. Yet, it is now dangerously obvious that it has become a shortcut for a strained healthcare system drowning under financial and staffing pressures.

We must face some tough questions: How did things go this wrong? How have we allowed a healthcare system, designed to heal and comfort, to instead propose death as a viable option? This isn’t simply a flawed policy—it’s a moral disaster, a profound ethical collapse of epic proportions that should deeply shame us all.

Canadians deserve much better than this. We deserve transparency, honesty, and full accountability from those who manage and deliver our healthcare. Immediate reforms are not just necessary—they're absolutely critical. Our “leaders” and I use this term incredibly lose, policymakers, and healthcare providers must stand up and address this constant need to use death as the solution to all things and fix the systemic failures that have allowed something so horrific to occur.

The lives, dignity, and humanity of injured and suffering Canadians hang in the balance. We have a duty—a sacred obligation—to protect and fight for them. Offering death instead of proper medical care isn't just unacceptable; it's disgraceful and morally indefensible.

It’s high time we demand better, loudly and persistently, until meaningful changes are made.

No Canadian should ever be abandoned by the system meant to heal them.

Kelsi Sheren