dailydeclaration.org.au
2026-04-17
Oh goodie, the kiddies' version comes with crayons.
It's somewhat of an irony that the name of the retired Quebec neurosurgeon eulogising the soaring rates of state-sanctioned assisted suicide in Canada is Georges L'Esperance. Anyone with a modicum of French knows that "esperance" is the French word for hope.
Yet with the projected total number of Canadian deaths attributed to MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) soaring to 110-thousand by the end of 2026, hope - at least in the Christian understanding of the term - appears to be in short supply. One in twenty Canadians dies through MAID. Crazy times.
And it is not just Christians who are noting this. While there is a deep and long-held theological aversion to assisted suicide throughout Christian history, the article I quote here was published in the secular online journal The Free Press.
It would seem that the wider Western culture is starting to have reservations, too, about assisted suicide, and the almost gleeful rampage it is making across our societies.