In 1997, my mother took her own life, leaving her five children behind. She had her justifications, I presume, as they all do. We were poor, our family life was broken, and the area that we lived in wasn’t the best. In an increasing number of countries, she would have qualified for physician-assisted suicide. In modern day Canada, she may well have been accepted into the Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program.
It broke my heart to hear of your family's tragedy. One never knows the pain others have experienced. You have emerged from that tragedy with great wisdom for such a young person.
This is such an important topic. One that was, frankly, unimaginable just 40 years ago. I still cannot believe the extent to which it has grown and is accepted.
Thank you for writing about such and important topic.
My mother left me by her own hand in 2017; there's not a day that goes by that this old Drill Sergeant does not think about her. Mom! She was the one who had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich ready for me when I came home from elementary school back in the 1960's. She also protected me from a physically violent father. She was the nurturer in the family. Up until the mid-seventies, she was a stay at home mom.
It broke my heart to hear of your family's tragedy. One never knows the pain others have experienced. You have emerged from that tragedy with great wisdom for such a young person.
This is such an important topic. One that was, frankly, unimaginable just 40 years ago. I still cannot believe the extent to which it has grown and is accepted.
Thank you for writing about such and important topic.
This is a sad story, but it has a long history going back over a century and the list I know about :-
British - Concentration Camps in the Boer War 1899.
USA and UK- Eugenics 1883 to present day.
Germany - T4 Programme 1939
UK - Liverpool Pathway 2013.
UK - Covid Assisted Death via Midazolam, Morphine, Air incubation 2020 to present day.
Canada- Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) 2021 in current use.
and lastly ALL the Covid injections to reduce the population.
Dear Sarah,
My mother left me by her own hand in 2017; there's not a day that goes by that this old Drill Sergeant does not think about her. Mom! She was the one who had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich ready for me when I came home from elementary school back in the 1960's. She also protected me from a physically violent father. She was the nurturer in the family. Up until the mid-seventies, she was a stay at home mom.
It's in God's hands.
Much love,
Bruce