Quebec Retailer Simons Tries to Normalize Assisted Suicide in Latest Ad Campaign
“We really felt — after everything we’ve been through in the last two years and everyone’s been through — maybe it would resonate more to do a project that’s less commercially oriented and more focused on inspiration and values that we hold dear.”
Simons released an ad earlier this month glamorizing and watering down assisted suicide in an ad.
The ad features Jennyfer Hatch, who used “medical assistance in dying (MAID) after dealing with complications and chronic pain associated with her diagnosis of Ehlers Danlos syndrome, a group of inherited disorders that affect the connective tissue supporting many body parts.”
In the ad, Hatch shared “her thoughts on life, death and her quest to fill her final days ‘with beauty, with nature and with connection.'”
Why would a fashion retailer do such a thing?
The CBC spoke to Peter Simons, chief merchant for the chain. I think these people didn’t thoroughly think through this idea:
Peter Simons, chief merchant for the fashion chain, says the documentary project started after meeting Hatch through the MAID program and travelling to Vancouver to talk about working on a unique film.
“We really felt — after everything we’ve been through in the last two years and everyone’s been through — maybe it would resonate more to do a project that’s less commercially oriented and more focused on inspiration and values that we hold dear,” said Simons.
Simons says he thinks customers will appreciate the unconventional move.
“I learned early in my career not to underestimate our customers. They’re intelligent and they’re thoughtful and they want to engage in difficult conversations,” he said.
“This isn’t about MAID, it’s really a story. It’s a celebration of Jennyfer’s life, and I think she has a lot to teach us.”
Couldn’t you have chosen someone else? Many of us have chronic illnesses that debilitate us to the point we can’t move. We try to find the good and beauty in life without committing suicide.
Holy shit, this Canadian COMMERCIAL for assisted suicide is dystopian and demonic.pic.twitter.com/0otaWlPjTs
— BowTiedRanger (@BowTiedRanger) November 27, 2022
Euthanasia Laws
MAID isn’t just for people who are literally dying.
Even The Associated Press published a piece about experts showing concern for these euthanasia laws because it seems that anyone with a medical issue can choose MAID.
lan Nichols had a history of depression and other medical issues, but none were life-threatening. When the 61-year-old Canadian was hospitalized in June 2019 over fears he might be suicidal, he asked his brother to “bust him out” as soon as possible.
Within a month, Nichols submitted a request to be euthanized and he was killed, despite concerns raised by his family and a nurse practitioner.
His application for euthanasia listed only one health condition as the reason for his request to die: hearing loss.
Nichols’ family reported the case to police and health authorities, arguing that he lacked the capacity to understand the process and was not suffering unbearably — among the requirements for euthanasia. They say he was not taking needed medication, wasn’t using the cochlear implant that helped him hear, and that hospital staffers improperly helped him request euthanasia.
“Alan was basically put to death,” his brother Gary Nichols said.
Roger Foley told The New York Post that medical personnel at Victora Hospital, which receives most of its funding from the Canadian government, pressured him to die.
Foley has cerebellar ataxia, which “attacks the brains and muscles.” The disease has left Foley bedridden for six years. He needs help “to eat, wash and sit up.”
Foley doesn’t want to die:
“I’ve been pressured to do an assisted suicide,” he told The Post, alleging this happened with caretakers at Victoria Hospital, a primarily government-funded center in London, Ontario.
“They asked if I want an assisted death. I don’t. I was told that I would be charged $1,800 per day [for hospital care]. I have $2 million worth of bills. Nurses here told me that I should end my life. That shocked me.”
Foley’s claims to The Post echo his allegations in a lawsuit filed against Victoria Hospital Health Services Centre, among others, in which he claims that healthcare workers have pushed him to end his life.
Foley doesn’t have much family, so he’s pretty much alone. He went to Victoria Hospital after several other government health agencies provided care that “led to him being poisoned from spoiled food and dragged on the floor by workers.”
But at first, the Victoria Hospital didn’t give him the Hoyer Lift, which “hoists him into a sitting position and helps him maneuver around.” They didn’t even provide him with someone who could operate the machine because he couldn’t do it himself.
The lawsuit alleges “the defendants denying him food and water, and failing to provide him with the necessities of life and endangering his life [by] making him critically acidotic [a condition in which there is too much acid in bodily fluids].”
Foley sums up the euthanasia laws perfectly:
Said Foley: “There is pressure on [disabled] people who should be treated equally and celebrated for their strength and diversity and difference.
“Society deems us better off dead. We have to justify being alive and [to pro-euthanasia contingents] our lives don’t matter.”
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Death ideology spreads across the West from abortion to MAID. Now to just fill in the gaps. Who needs communism when this is available.
I was explaining to a person last week this is how a narrative gets pushed.
Some of us are considering a way out due to illness we can’t cure, or the docs can’t seem to solve.
So many want to see us lashed up to machines that go beep, or have jiggly lines going across a screen; tubes, probes, wires, catheters, etc, bedridden and no hope. We are required to prolong our death to satisfy the “all life is sacred!” crowd.
Leave us alone.
We all, every single one of us have an “illness we can’t cure, or the docs can’t seem to solve.” It’s called aging.
There’s only one way to cure getting older – and that’s by not getting older.
Personally, at 82, I’d prefer to see what’s going to happen tomorrow. It’s always got to be something entertaining. Watching/hearing about Dr. Fauci finally feeling the noose tighten: what could be more entertaining than that!
People ask, knowing my conditions, “Don’t you ever feel down?”
Nah! I compare myself with the decrepid hiding in WH basement and think how much better off I am.
When it’s time to go. I’ll go, fighting every step of the way, but never with a MAID.
Aging is not at all what I’m talking about. One illness after another IS.
I’m sorry you feel that way, I asked in past post how you were doing, I think I was off a few days (some won’t believe that) So Indisnt read the answer, but I did look.
I’m concerned by the way you are talking.
I do
Believe people have the right not to have advanced medical procedures to keep them alive, hooked up
To Various tubes and machines , as a nurse I have taken care of people who withdrew medical intervention and those who did not. After watching a bedridden semi comatose woman go without fluids for weeks, I decided that was not going to be in the cards for me.
There are ways to help us face this decision without actually killing ourself .
That video is demonic, she clearly loves life and is getting joy out of it.
Our medical communities have become infected with satin worshipping monsters.
All I’d want is that last little “push” I KNOW happens but about which nothing is ever said.
PA regarding the satan worshipping monsters: I often wonder: is there, secretly, a Dr. Mengele hidden inside of many doctors anyway?
I worked with so many varied Drs, different specialties, different ages.
Very few gave me the creeps, definitely the worst are the psychiatrists.
Psychiatry and psychology are – in my view – about one step from humbug.
Grizz,
Make a living will. Appoint an advocate that will see your wishes carried out.
I had the very unfortunate duty to do that for my younger Brother. He was terminal and didn’t want his last months or days in a Hospital. It wasn’t easy to let him be but I loved him enough and respected him enough to ensure I prioritized his wishes over my own.
His last months and days were with me in my home and I am thankful he trusted me enough to both care for him and to respect his decisions.
I’ve done that. And, he knows very well my wishes. We both watched an uncle waste away to nothing thanks to more or less forced treatment.
And, thanks.
Grizz, your points are well-taken. I don’t think folks’ concerns (at least mine) are with the notion of assisted suicide, per se, but, with the inevitable and unavoidable coercive forces that inevitably come into play whenever government — in its alleged sagacity and benevolence — decides to insert itself into the situation. Governments clearly have an incentive to encourage assisted suicide as an unspoken means of keeping palliative or non-palliative, general healthcare care costs to a minimum. That makes government a decidedly non-objective party to the whole affair, with a vested interest in valuing dollars and cents over lives.
The grooming continues. How long until “Soylent Green” isn’t fiction any more?
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Right about now, nots not just crickets we will be eating
One of the many ways Canada can save on medical costs. Whoever thinks socialism is better than capitalism doesn’t know how evil socialism can be when it runs out of other people’s money.
This is where single payer health “care” wins up.
This is the logical conclusion of a society that places no value on life whether at its beginning or at any time thereafter especially a life when one has to struggle with any type of physical limitations or disability
The only response to such a dystopic policy is that life is to be treasured and that God not man is the master of the human body and soul
See the limited medical insurance coverage available-that is socialized medicine in practice
Re: “They asked if I want an assisted death. I don’t. I was told that I would be charged $1,800 per day [for hospital care]. I have $2 million worth of bills. Nurses here told me that I should end my life. That shocked me.”
I thought Canada had “Free Health Care.”
Does Trudeau charge only those who refuse to kill themselves?
True that
They do. But that is predicated on the fact that you won’t cost the “Free Health Care” system too much. So once you get into the more expensive upper tiers of medical treatment like Foley evidently has done the only recourse given will be to end your life so as not to run up expenses further.
Death as a cost cutting measure. Who would have thought we’d get to that point. But here we are and there we go.
Ezekiel Emanuel.
Sarah Palin was right
Death Panels !
They got 70% of the people to take the clot shot to “protect others”
Now end your life to protect others because if you use medical dollars, “we” won’t be able to hel younger, more productive citizens!
Do it for your grandchildren!!!
“Inspiration and values”???
“Go kill yourself!!”…. insane
I have little problem with assisted suicide, so long as it is suicide and not mercy killing. In other words, the patient must be the one to consciously take the action that ends his life, not someone else acting on his behalf.
I feel sorry for patients who desperately want this but are too far gone to take any action at all, but I can’t think of a morally acceptable solution for them.
Having someone else do it for them is just not something I can condone. There are too many stories of people who attempt suicide and regret it at the very last moment; and I’m convinced there are even more stories that we will never hear, of people who had time to regret it immediately after it was too late to change it. That’s why it seems to me that the patient must be in control, and able to change his mind right up to the final act. Any consent given in advance, and especially consent given months or years earlier, should be considered void because there’s too great a likelihood that the patient has withdrawn it, or will withdraw it before the act is taken.
The fashion world loves to be edgy. There was a time when tuberculosis was a fad, and there have been waves of “heroin chic.” It does not excuse the promotion of murder. It will be murder in some cases, and we should not bowdlerize it with the term “euthanasia.”
Peter Simons is correct. He cannot underestimate his customers’ intelligence.
You’re seeing this from the outside. Remember all health care in Canada is government health care. The government is pushing MAID hard, everywhere. There’s a current highly-publicized case where an otherwise healthy veteran seeking help for PTSD was counselled to consider MAID.
This isn’t a single Quebec retailer; it’s the Canadian government trying to eliminate the most expensive drains on the socialized medical system.
And, Sarah Palin was criticized.
If someone wants to end their life instead of living in chronic pain and lying in a bed waiting to die, it’s no one’s business but theirs and, to a lessor extent, their family. Having had to watch my mother and my brother both being tortured with terminal cancer I completely understand a person not wanting to go through that just so they can eventually slip into a coma and die. There was no miraculous happy ending. It was just pure pain and no one should have to go through it if they choose not to.
There are heavy narcotics that can help
To shorten the process. I too took care of my terminally ill sister for 6 weeks. Hospice was involved, I being a nurse, she was too, I was very liberal with pain meds. Her husband was a big AA member, I tried to talk to him about the use of narcotics and tranquilizers, but finally I just took over the meds and finally she went to
Sleep peacefully. .
She lived long enough to see all
Her family and it allowed them to say good by. and how much they loved her and what she meant to them.
It would be horrible to not have anyone to help you in the end of your life.
I’ve watched it myself and it’s not a good way to end your life. Either in excruciating pain or doped up drooling on yourself or unconscious until the final moments. The decision on what to do, however, should not involve the government in any way much less have them push you towards it because your care is expensive. I’m afraid that is the direction we are going. Withhold treatment after a certain age or point because of cost and push you into suicide “for the good of everyone”.
I absolutely agree that the government should have no influence on one’s decision about if this would be the right choice for an individual. It has to be fully the individual’s decision.
planned parenthood
planned parent/hood
planned people/hood
Choices!
Boycott them out of existence.
I guess now we know why the Breck Boi PM banned handguns. Only the government gets to kill you.
Euthanasia laws, laws, laws, laws, laws.
Screw laws.
If you don’t own yourself, who owns you?
The decision to live or die is yours and yours alone.
If they don’t like it, what can they do about it?
Had a good friend with ALS. The choices are strictly limited.
Life is all about choice. Choice is freedom.
I was very close to a person who suicided all by himself. He was an older man. He had been suffering from a very discomforting and very painful disease for years that was only going to get worse and disable him within the next year, with lingering death to follow. His wife had suffered from a similar disease and had died almost 10 years earlier. (No cure or improvements in therapy have come along in the 20 years since he passed.) The disease had so advanced that we accurately say that he died of that disease. No one (and certainly not his doctors) had suggested suicide, yet none of us blame him.
No government, no business, nobody, should be promoting or encouraging suicide.
Leftists/Dumb-o-crats simply cannot help themselves. Their pathological narcissism, messianic fanaticism and obnoxiously totalitarian ethos demand that they inject their corrosive political zealotry and self-congratulatory sermonizing into every facet and sphere of society. Nothing can be left untouched.
My uncle took this option when he exhausted his options fighting cancer. He died after seeing his kids and holding my aunts hand.
When I was fighting cancer, thankfully better now, since I was in the U.S. I knew that if my opportunities were to be exhausted I would suffer greatly. My suffering would have been prolonged for no gain to myself. Further I may have died in a hospital at night rather then being able to see my family or not being able to see my family due to covid restrictions. It was frankly a horrifying thought at the time and still today for me.
I have a toddler and there was never any quit in me as far as treatment. But I also had a cancer that responded to chemo. That’s not the case for others. I don’t see how adding days/weeks of pain and suffering to a terminally ill patient is noble. I think there is a time and place for medically assisted suicide.
People can kill themselves, painlessly, any time they want. They don’t need any help or encouragement from the government.
Tired of living? Just sit in your car with it running the exhaust inside. Done.
There are thousands of simple, easy ways for people to kill themselves, all on their own.
But for a store to be advertising “the beauty” of suicide … that’s just sick stuff. But then, the modern West is a very, very sick society. One of the sickest that has ever existed.
People who are bedridden and can’t even roll over on their own are pretty limited on their options. You don’t believe in it, don’t do it. Simple as that.
If you take out (not metaphorically) the main protagonist and replace her with the Balcirnga child with a NAMBLA aficionado ”showing his appreciation”, perhaps the problem with this video would be more obvious to these storekeepers