Competent or Not Competent

It seems to me that competency can vary depending on the outcome a physician wants.  One of the questions an assessor for competency will ask is if a patient knows how much money he has in his bank account.  How many of use know that. One would have to attend at a bank to be sure.  And is that a base to determine whether or not one is competent to make a complex medical decision.

Think about it.  Bill C-14 says a person has to be competent to kill himself and physicians say that they have to rush the killing as the person may become incompetent. How many people are going to be labelled competent when they are not.

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What is going to happen with euthanasia?  Will those that are incompetent be deemed competent for a short period of time and then be rushed to be killed before they become incompetent again. 

 

Bill C-14 deaths since June 17 2016 in BC and Alberta

CBC reported today 3 September 2016 that since 17 June 2016 BC reported 46 cases of medically assisted deaths (Hemlock AID), 49 in Ontario, Alberta had 15, and Manitoba had 8.  The other provinces did not report because of privacy issues.

CBC does not say if the deaths were by lethal injection or by pills in their homes circled by their family. The stats should say where the patients died and who was in attendance.  I really want to believe in Norman Rockwell.

I also want the process from day 1 to day death videotaped.  If they can do this in Switzerland, it can be done here.

I want to know if there was ambivalence by the patient over her decision. I can just see a doctor saying yes she said she changed her mind or was ambivalent but she really did not mean it so she is now dead. This is what Judge Smith wanted in her historic judgment that the patient not be ambivalent.  Trusting a doctor to stop the process is not going to happen as the patient is going to die anyways. Why do we need euthanasia when the patient is within days of death anyways.  And all this secrecy bothers me, if you want the $state to kill you, then the process should not be private.