It Begins: Canada Now Murdering People For Minor Ailments, Just As Predicted

The left rails about insurance companies not covering certain drugs or treatments because they're too expensive.

But when the state literally murders people as a way of keeping down government health costs, they applaud.

Distraught family blasts Canada for euthanizing son, 26, who suffered from 'seasonal depression'
By KELLY GARINO, US REPORTER
A family has accused Canada's laws of 'killing the disabled and vulnerable' months after their son, who suffered from seasonal depression, died by assisted suicide.
Kiano Vafaeian, a 26-year-old blind man with Type 1 diabetes, died in December using Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program, which allows patients with 'grievous and irremediable' medical conditions to request a lethal drug.

So he was blind and suffered from Type I diabetes, which I understand is quite treatable with injections. (Let me know if I'm wrong.)

So Canada deemed these maladies "grievous and irremediable" and performed yet another Doctor-Directed Murder.

Eligibility was expanded in 2021 to include people with chronic illnesses, disabilities and, pending parliamentary review, potentially individuals with certain mental health conditions.
Vafaeian faced mental health struggles stemming from a car accident at 17, and according to his mother, his depression often flared during the winter months.
For years, the family had successfully prevented their son from using the program. Last year, however, Dr Ellen Wiebe, a MAID provider in British Columbia, approved Vafaeian's death - news the family only learned about days later.
Vafaeian's mother, Margaret Marsilla of Ontario, alleged that Wiebe was 'coaching' her son on how to qualify as a Track 2 patient - those whose natural deaths aren't deemed 'reasonably imminent,' according to Fox News Digital.
'We believe that she was coaching him on how to deteriorate his body and what she can possibly approve him for and what she can get away with approving him for,' Marsilla told the outlet.

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Vafaeian's death certificate now lists the 'antecedent causes' of his assisted suicide as blindness, severe peripheral neuropathy - nerve damage outside the brain and spinal cord that causes pain and numbness - and diabetes.
But his parents said his medical records did not back up the claim that 'severe peripheral neuropathy' was a qualifying factor for his assisted suicide.
'Realistically, safeguards for patients would be reaching out to their family members, giving them a whole bunch of different treatment options,' Marsilla told Fox.
She argued that doctors can approve and carry out euthanasia on Track 2 patients in just 90 days under the current system.
'How is that safe for patients?' she added.

Read the whole thing. Dr. Death is proud and cracks jokes about her murders:

In an interview with the Free Press, Wiebe joked that she had brought more than 1,000 babies into the world while also helping 'more than 500 patients die.'
She also described assisted suicide as 'the best work I've ever done.'
'I have a very strong, passionate desire for human rights,' Wiebe explained. 'I'm willing to take risks for human rights as I do for abortion.'

Canada is a world leader in killing the sad:

Canada has one of the highest rates of medically assisted deaths in the world, 5.1 percent, or a total of 16,499 deaths in 2024.

Obviously the same people who approve of child genital mutilations and consider abortion a religious sacrament will also support murdering the sick and sad.

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— Chained_Fire🇺🇸 (@Chained_Fire) February 17, 2026

Pardon the quickie blogging. I have a routine yearly doctor's appointment at a distant office and need to quickly write posts in advance to cover the time.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:30 PM

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1 They murdered a woman against her will even. Its just the only way to keep their "health care" system going.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2026 03:31 PM (PYyV9)

2 dead is dead, and Carney hates the cost the disabled carry

Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 03:31 PM (rbvCR)

3 They vote for it, they should be willing to test it for the rest of us.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 18, 2026 03:32 PM (lpVer)

4 >> She also described assisted suicide as 'the best work I've ever done.'

She’s Dr Mengele’s granddaughter- right?

Posted by: Vengeance at February 18, 2026 03:32 PM (UMWMT)

5 Canadian “nice”

Posted by: Gonzotx at February 18, 2026 03:33 PM (nGraA)

6 So- just think of the patient has finally morphed into, just think of the cost savings. Huh.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 18, 2026 03:33 PM (UMWMT)

7 yet biden lives, sort of, maybe

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 18, 2026 03:34 PM (CWTWj)

8 2 dead is dead, and Carney hates the cost the disabled carry
Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 03:31 PM (rbvCR)

This exactly - Canada and socialized medicine will love to kill the chronically diseased, which many depression cases fall into, b/c they are the most expensive, long term, to the system. And if you're young and chronic, they want to rush you off b/c you could be decades of care...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 03:35 PM (tOcjL)

9 I do hope Albert both chooses to leave Canada, and also opts to be a US territory until they can figure out all the legal stuff.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 03:36 PM (rbvCR)

10 Government cannot keep their “promise” to baby everyone with a “free” doctor so they start murdering everyone because that’s easier.

Canada needs to be kicked out of NATO and NORAD as they are a people who are immoral, unfit to be free and incapable of self-government (h/t, TX Dec. of Ind., 1836).

Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts at February 18, 2026 03:36 PM (utKUq)

11 Involuntary Organ Harvesting : IT'S FANTASTIC!

Posted by: XTC at February 18, 2026 03:37 PM (iXqHn)

12 "distant office", Ace?

Tell me it's not in Canada.

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 18, 2026 03:37 PM (YG+k7)

13 Noted “Devoutly Catholic” Ghoul, Hochul just signed an assisted suicide law in NY. So now, along with the abortion up until the birth canal law, with no penalty you get a twofer coming and going.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 18, 2026 03:37 PM (UMWMT)

14 It is a known FACT THAT

Posted by: Ellie Mentry at February 18, 2026 03:37 PM (VBSp6)

15 1 They murdered a woman against her will even. Its just the only way to keep their "health care" system going.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2026 03:31 PM (PYyV9)

Off sock.

And you had BETTER be healthy up there to get that “health care”. Because if you have no health for which to care….

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 03:37 PM (utKUq)

16 Alrighty, then.

MAID is the answer to a lot of Canada's problems.

- Fail to pass a balanced budget: MAID for every politician that failed.
- Give worked property to a passing Indian tribe: MAID.
-Abuse the rights of truckers - MAID.

I can keep going, but the pattern is clear. Make policy failure people into organ donors.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 18, 2026 03:37 PM (u82oZ)

17 Robert Hugh Benson predicted all this 120 years ago.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at February 18, 2026 03:37 PM (tj1W+)

18 Canadian version:

There's "a nap" for that.

Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 03:37 PM (+YA9H)

19 Hopefully Ace isn't going to a canadian doctor.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 18, 2026 03:38 PM (n5tGW)

20 Involuntary Organ Harvesting : IT'S ~~FANTASTIC~~ REMUNERATIVE!

Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 03:38 PM (rbvCR)

21 Canada is a world leader in killing the sad...

To be fair, Canada probably has one of the highest depression rates in the world. I mean, being born in Canada? Talk about shitty spawn rng.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 18, 2026 03:38 PM (ycI94)

22 -- dead is dead, and Carney hates the cost the disabled carry
Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 03:31 PM (rbvCR)--

Yeah, Hitler didn't like the high cost either.

Both leaders chose basically the same path to remedy their issue.

Posted by: GigantorX at February 18, 2026 03:38 PM (co7j0)

23 Known fact that Canada assisted suicide sponsored by the government is killing over 16,000 people a year, as of 2025 data. in America only 14,000 people died of gun related homicides and accidental shootings. So we have guns and a Second Amendment and we kill less than the Canadian government does of their own people.

Posted by: Ellie Mentry at February 18, 2026 03:38 PM (VBSp6)

24 Yes, but the laws against average citizens possessing firearms in Canada saves “thousands”- right?

Posted by: Vengeance at February 18, 2026 03:38 PM (UMWMT)

25 9 I do hope Albert both chooses to leave Canada, and also opts to be a US territory until they can figure out all the legal stuff.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 03:36 PM (rbvCR)

They need to never join the United States. We have enough Statists/Socialists here. Yeah, AB is different, but they are still habituated in the attitudes and culture of the land of their birth, Canada.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 03:39 PM (utKUq)

26 someone ask bernie 'affordable quality health coverage" sanders what he thinks about this

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 18, 2026 03:39 PM (CWTWj)

27 Canada has one of the highest rates of medically assisted deaths in the world

Look, we were the third leading cause of death, anyways. Why not lean in to it and become proficient?

Posted by: The Medical Community at February 18, 2026 03:39 PM (/oKzA)

28 Jeebus, what am I to say? Stay out of Canada?

Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 03:39 PM (pZ64F)

29 23 Known fact that Canada assisted suicide sponsored by the government is killing over 16,000 people a year, as of 2025 data. in America only 14,000 people died of gun related homicides and accidental shootings. So we have guns and a Second Amendment and we kill less than the Canadian government does of their own people.
Posted by: Ellie Mentry at February 18, 2026 03:38 PM (VBSp6)

And Canada has a population a tenth that of the United States.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 03:39 PM (utKUq)

30 Death by lethal injection for the despondent reduces the number of deaths involving firearms.

Posted by: mrp at February 18, 2026 03:40 PM (rj6Yv)

31 Let me know if I'm wrong.

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You're wrong.

About Ted Cruz's father's connection to the JFK assassination, that is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

32 Sad to say, many people in positions of trust or authority see human life as cheap and expendable.

Posted by: Don Black: Careful, he might be joking at February 18, 2026 03:40 PM (ZxPkt)

33 I wonder it the "otherwise-abled" activists, for whom blindness or deafness isn't merely a condition but an identity and a lifestyle, will have word one to say about this, or if they'll take it to the hilt defending Canadian euthanasia.

I'm kidding, I don't wonder.

Posted by: mea culpa at February 18, 2026 03:40 PM (KNlWB)

34 'I have a very strong, passionate desire for human rights,' Wiebe explained. 'I'm willing to take risks for human rights as I do for abortion.'

That must sound better in the original German.

Fucking demon.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 18, 2026 03:40 PM (bFu5X)

35 22 -- dead is dead, and Carney hates the cost the disabled carry
Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 03:31 PM (rbvCR)--

Yeah, Hitler didn't like the high cost either.

Both leaders chose basically the same path to remedy their issue.
Posted by: GigantorX at February 18, 2026 03:38 PM (co7j0)

100% true. Hitler systematically killed the disabled long before he started on the Jews. It's b/c there was no real outcry against this practice that Hitler kept going.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 03:40 PM (tOcjL)

36 It's horrifying.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 18, 2026 03:40 PM (NFX2v)

37 re 23: but even if it only saves one life, isn't it worth it?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 18, 2026 03:40 PM (CWTWj)

38 You would have thought they would have used a hose.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 03:40 PM (pZ64F)

39 Pardon the quickie blogging. I have a routine yearly doctor's appointment at a distant office and need to quickly write posts in advance to cover the time.

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No supervision.

I'm raiding the liquor cabinet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

40 Dystopian nightmare!!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 18, 2026 03:41 PM (zbzCN)

41 I believe he was blind in only one eye.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 18, 2026 03:41 PM (cntUY)

42 26 someone ask bernie 'affordable quality health coverage" sanders what he thinks about this
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 18, 2026 03:39 PM (CWTWj)

Only of you are healthy do you get affordable quality health coverage. God help you if you are not healthy. Because the State will not.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 03:41 PM (utKUq)

43 Leftists believe that if they can usurp control over life and death from G-d, then that proves there is no G-d, because they are G-d.

Posted by: XTC at February 18, 2026 03:41 PM (iXqHn)

44 Canada May Start Euthanizing Babies. The Quebec College of Physicians recently told the British newspaper Daily Mail that it believes “medical assistance in dying may be an appropriate treatment for babies suffering from extreme pain” and that “parents should have the opportunity to obtain this care for their infant,”

The statement revives a debate that first erupted in 2022 when Louis Roy of the Quebec College of Physicians appeared before Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying. Roy suggested the program could be considered for “babies from birth to one year of age” who are born with severe deformities or disabilities, Farrow reported.

In 2024 alone, there were 16,499 reported euthanasia deaths, bringing the total to 76,475 by year’s end, according to government data cited by Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. By early 2026, Schadenberg estimated at least 94,000 deaths since legalization.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 18, 2026 03:41 PM (ycI94)

45 Canada also had 0.0% GDP growth last quarter.

They're doing great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

46 100% true. Hitler systematically killed the disabled long before he started on the Jews. It's b/c there was no real outcry against this practice that Hitler kept going.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 03:40 PM (tOcjL)

The GDR would routinely dump its elderly citizens in West Berlin. Care for them cost too much.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 03:42 PM (utKUq)

47 In an interview with the Free Press, Wiebe joked that she had brought more than 1,000 babies into the world while also helping 'more than 500 patients die.'
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That's the most bizarre and disturbing "2-for-1" special I've ever heard.

Sickening.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 18, 2026 03:42 PM (ESVrU)

48 Are they harvesting their organs?

I mean, there’s already a profit motive in offing the sick, but now with the healthy? Where’s the sense in that unless it’s being monetized…

Posted by: Lizzy at February 18, 2026 03:42 PM (zbzCN)

49 Not just wrong, actually fucking evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 18, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

50
Some Canuckian Death Panel needs to issue a formal apology to Sarah Palin...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 18, 2026 03:43 PM (kTyBw)

51 As much as they’d like you to believe they do, government has no control over your coming and going in this world. That’s the domain of God, and God alone. I’m sure at some point they’ll get the explainer on that.

“ Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”

Matthew 10:28

Posted by: Marcus T at February 18, 2026 03:43 PM (PxIWo)

52 re35: i recall reading (or maybe saw on yootoob) thatthere was a loud reaction to killing handicapped people c 1938 and hitler learned a valuable lesson: don't sign the orders

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 18, 2026 03:43 PM (CWTWj)

53 It was funny when Monty Python did it in a skit.

It's horrifying when Canada made it a law.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 18, 2026 03:43 PM (HXT0k)

54 >>>I have a routine yearly doctor's appointment

Good for you! Good luck.

Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 03:43 PM (+YA9H)

55 Jack Kevorkian is laughing in hell.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2026 03:44 PM (77rzZ)

56 And we want them as the 51st state. Hard pass.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 18, 2026 03:44 PM (abIsI)

57 Pardon the quickie blogging. I have a routine yearly doctor's appointment at a distant office and need to quickly write posts in advance to cover the time.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace

Distant office? Like in Canada?

*removes hat*
*bows head*

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 18, 2026 03:44 PM (Dv3i1)

58 The Atlantic, 'Why I Hope to Die at 75'
An argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly

By Ezekiel J. Emanuel
October 2014 Issue

I ask my doctors at Penn if they're believers, too. They smile.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 18, 2026 03:44 PM (NFX2v)

59 Dr. Mengele is Canadian eh?

Nazi T4 programme now served with strychnine laced maple syrup.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2026 03:44 PM (AoZSo)

60 Do not let these people, doctors or otherwise, ear your family. Be present for every conversation.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 18, 2026 03:44 PM (PxIWo)

61 Action T4 looks quaint compared to this horror.
WTF, Canada?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 18, 2026 03:44 PM (zbzCN)

62 32 Sad to say, many people in positions of trust or authority see human life as cheap and expendable.

Bic pens are cheap and expandable, but I don't feel giddy when I throw one away. I don't brag about it.

Posted by: mea culpa at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (KNlWB)

63 56 And we want them as the 51st state. Hard pass.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 18, 2026 03:44 PM (abIsI)

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I wouldn't mind them as a vassal state.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

64 Canada's islamic replacements are the happiest about this. Once in power, they will just declare non-muzzies to be sad.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (n5tGW)

65 was funny when Monty Python did it in a skit.

It's horrifying when Canada made it a law.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 18, 2026 03:43 PM (HXT0k)

I believe 16 states have assisted suicide provisions .

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (cntUY)

66 "[Weibe] also described assisted suicide as 'the best work I've ever done.'"

Aaaaand another piece of the puzzle falls into place in trying to understand how doctors in NAZI Germany could do the things they did.

Posted by: JTSmith at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (A62KL)

67 47 In an interview with the Free Press, Wiebe joked that she had brought more than 1,000 babies into the world while also helping 'more than 500 patients die.'
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That's the most bizarre and disturbing "2-for-1" special I've ever heard.

Sickening.
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Kind of a BOGO offer.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (pZ64F)

68 51 As much as they’d like you to believe they do, government has no control over your coming and going in this world. That’s the domain of God, and God alone. I’m sure at some point they’ll get the explainer on that.

“ Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”

Matthew 10:28

Posted by: Marcus T at February 18, 2026 03:43 PM (PxIWo

For the Left and Canada, the State IS God.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (utKUq)

69 Canada has one of the highest rates of medically assisted deaths in the world

The snowbillies have been up to this for decades.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (PYyV9)

70 They need to never join the United States. We have enough Statists/Socialists here. Yeah, AB is different, but they are still habituated in the attitudes and culture of the land of their birth, Canada.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 03:39 PM (utKUq)

If they are a territory they can get protection from Canadian invasion, and they have ready access to markets for their oil without going through Canadian territory

Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (rbvCR)

71 I have a routine yearly doctor's appointment at a distant office and need to quickly write posts in advance to cover the time.
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That's one way to say "colonoscopy."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (HXT0k)

72 MAID makes murder SOUND so nice.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (utKUq)

73 It's horrifying when Canada made it a law.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 18, 2026 03:43 PM (HXT0k)
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It won't be long for Canada to make "mercy" killing a civic virtue.

Posted by: mrp at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (rj6Yv)

74 also keep in mind that having the ability to decide who lives and who dies is about as close as you can come to being god-like and some people are thrilled to have that power.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (CWTWj)

75 Pretty sure Ezekiel Emmanuel is past his prime”too old to live” date.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (zbzCN)

76 So... What you're saying here is that this MAID program is working exactly the way the left intended.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (2J/Lj)

77 63 56 And we want them as the 51st state. Hard pass.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 18, 2026 03:44 PM (abIsI)

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I wouldn't mind them as a vassal state.
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They come with oil.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (pZ64F)

78 48 Are they harvesting their organs?

I mean, there’s already a profit motive in offing the sick, but now with the healthy? Where’s the sense in that unless it’s being monetized…
Posted by: Lizzy at February 18, 2026 03:42 PM (zbzCN)

Depression is an expensive illness to treat - you have daily medications, daily-weekly therapy, sometimes in patient requirements. The sense is to save the system 50 years of continual expense.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (tOcjL)

79 If you let the government control your healthcare they are going to be incentivized to kill you if you aren't likely to generate a bunch of tax dollars for them. Hell, Zeke Emmanuel made this exact argument though he endorsed it.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (sKqQm)

80 This is unconscionable. This is the left. Canada is on track to soon advance to not even giving people a chance to request MAID on their own. Their doctors will do it for them and they'll have no recourse. May all of these people burn in hell.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (qBdHI)

81 77
I wouldn't mind them as a vassal state.
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They come with oil.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (pZ64F)

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And trees.

For our toilet paper.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

82 Re: Alberta - like any other place, I think for "best results", if they achieve independence, they should stay that way long for at least one generation before joining the US as a territory, and then another generation as a territory before petitioning for statehood.

Posted by: RandomDave at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (aJQbY)

83 If they are a territory they can get protection from Canadian invasion, and they have ready access to markets for their oil without going through Canadian territory
Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 03:45 PM (rbvCR)

That can be achieved via treaty.

NO to AB joining the United States.

(And you better get ready for Leftist demands for PR and DC statehood).

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (utKUq)

84 “medical assistance in dying may be an appropriate treatment for babies suffering from extreme pain”

and

Planned Parenthood’s expert – Dr. Steven Ralston, a maternal fetal medicine “doctor” – testified that infants likely do not feel pain because, in his words, they are not “conscious beings.”

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (Dv3i1)

85 In Canada's Defense...

sometimes Tim Horton's is out of Jelly Donuts.

Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (1Udfd)

86 9 I do hope Albert both chooses to leave Canada, and also opts to be a US territory until they can figure out all the legal stuff.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 03:36 PM (rbvCR)

Or stay put and balance out the wacky provinces.

Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (+YA9H)

87 O Canada
Communist, unfree
True patriot love
Will bring a felony

Posted by: Delurker at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (gtcuf)

88 51. Matthew 10:28

Posted by: Marcus T

More than once, you have also made my day.

Thank you.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 18, 2026 03:47 PM (NFX2v)

89 Canada's assisted suicide program has nothing on our pharmaceutical-assisted tranny homicide program.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 18, 2026 03:47 PM (gVUi7)

90 I saw some comments above on Organ Donation. And, IMO, that's the primary motivation for the MAID program, only they screwed up. Only Nova Scotia has "Opt Out" organ donation. All the other provinces require you to sign up for Organ Donation. That's not to say that MAID participants aren't coerced into signing up before getting the needle. As of 2022, Canada was #1 in the world for organ donors orignating from an Euthanasia program.

BTW, the United Kingdom made all residents "OPT OUT" without debate or legislation about a year and a half ago. This year, they approved Euthanasia in that country. They didn't screw up. Look for the UK to overtake Canada as #1 on organ donation from a Euthanasia program shortly. Interestingly, China still considers Euthanasia illegal...at least outside of their concentration work camps.

Posted by: Orson at February 18, 2026 03:47 PM (dIske)

91 82 Re: Alberta - like any other place, I think for "best results", if they achieve independence, they should stay that way long for at least one generation before joining the US as a territory, and then another generation as a territory before petitioning for statehood.
Posted by: RandomDave at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (aJQbY)

Forever prohibit AB from joining the United States.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 03:47 PM (utKUq)

92 Dr. Mengele is Canadian eh?

They did recently honor a Ukrainian member of the Waffen SS.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2026 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

93 Depression is an expensive illness to treat - you have daily medications, daily-weekly therapy, sometimes in patient requirements. The sense is to save the system 50 years of continual expense.
Posted by: Nova Local

That's not a bug, it's a feature.

Posted by: Troon Medical Machine at February 18, 2026 03:47 PM (ycI94)

94 MAID in the USA is known as Arkanicide

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 18, 2026 03:47 PM (Kc+Vz)

95 It won't be long for Canada to make "mercy" killing a civic virtue.
Posted by: mrp

Once you reach 30, you'll be offed, just like in Logan's Run.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2026 03:47 PM (77rzZ)

96 Life is short. Eternity is forever.

Do you really want to place your bet on the things of this world?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 18, 2026 03:47 PM (PxIWo)

97 O Canada ...

Posted by: dantesed at February 18, 2026 03:48 PM (Oy/m2)

98 The Dutch have been legally murdering people for decades.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2026 03:48 PM (AoZSo)

99 They come with oil.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (pZ64F)

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And trees.

For our toilet paper.

Take it for repayment of defense debt.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 18, 2026 03:48 PM (abIsI)

100 dems would object to alberta becoming a u.s. state. how can you trust people who want to leave canada for the u.s.?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 18, 2026 03:48 PM (CWTWj)

101 Canada killed over 300 ostriches, at an ostrich ranch, due to fears over avian flu, even though each bird had been given a clean bill of health, and despite zoos and ostrich farms/attractions in other countries agreeing to take them in. Canada just likes killing. The Wifey followed the story and was horrified.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 18, 2026 03:48 PM (yxj8r)

102 100

Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 03:48 PM (+YA9H)

103 >> More than once, you have also made my day.

Thank you.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 18, 2026 03:47 PM (NFX2v)

God Bless you. His will be done.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 18, 2026 03:49 PM (PxIWo)

104 Once you reach 30, you'll be offed, just like in Logan's Run.

Can I offer sanctuary to any Canuckistani Jenny Agutters fleeing south?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

105 Will the names of the members of the Death Panels be secret?

Posted by: davidt at February 18, 2026 03:49 PM (Q+gd/)

106 Remember in the Star Wars prequels where Lucas has one of the characters say "Only the Sith deal in absolutes!" which is a self refuting statement?

Obama just did the same thing saying "Only the other side does us/them divisive politics"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

107 Are they harvesting their organs?
I mean, there’s already a profit motive in offing the sick, but now with the healthy? Where’s the sense in that unless it’s being monetized…
Posted by: Lizzy at February 18, 2026 03:42 PM (zbzCN)

My understanding is that they are harvesting organs

Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 03:49 PM (rbvCR)

108 96 Life is short. Eternity is forever.

Do you really want to place your bet on the things of this world?
Posted by: Marcus T at February 18, 2026 03:47 PM (PxIWo)

Marcus T, the recent Peter Robinson interview of Ben Sasse touches on this and it's pretty great.

Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 03:49 PM (+YA9H)

109 Fook'n Canadians put brown lump gravy on their fries. Do we want lump gravy on our fries?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 18, 2026 03:50 PM (abIsI)

110 The Dutch have been legally murdering people for decades.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2026 03:48 PM (AoZSo)

And transitioning the mentally ill even longer.

Posted by: Opinion fact at February 18, 2026 03:50 PM (cntUY)

111
I used to think that assisted suicide's greatest evil is in co-opting the medical profession into murder, and shitting all over the Hippocratic Oath. Turns out that the medical profession didn't need assistance to commit murder after all.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 18, 2026 03:50 PM (kTyBw)

112 100% true. Hitler systematically killed the disabled long before he started on the Jews. It's b/c there was no real outcry against this practice that Hitler kept going.
Posted by: Nova Local

There's a scene in Judgment in Nuremburg where Montgomery Clift plays a low IQ guy whom the Nazi's sterilized for the good of the Reich.

During cross examination the German defense asked him to provide a sentence to include the words 'hunter', 'hare' and 'field'. He couldn't do it.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 18, 2026 03:50 PM (cxFcK)

113 >> Marcus T, the recent Peter Robinson interview of Ben Sasse touches on this and it's pretty great.
Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 03:49 PM (+YA9H)

Thanks. I am going to search for that.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 18, 2026 03:50 PM (PxIWo)

114 109 Fook'n Canadians put brown lump gravy on their fries. Do we want lump gravy on our fries?
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Lumpy gravy is not acceptable.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 03:51 PM (pZ64F)

115 "Distraught family blasts Canada for euthanizing son, 26, who suffered from 'seasonal depression'"

Let's not go on and on about who killed who.......

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 18, 2026 03:51 PM (0N4FZ)

116 "I'm willing to take risks for human rights as I do for abortion."

Holy shit. This woman is pure evil. Not joking. Pure evil.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 18, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

117 if i were depressed i'd just go for a couple of vodkas. i must be depressed a lot

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 18, 2026 03:51 PM (CWTWj)

118 >>>Planned Parenthood’s expert – Dr. Steven Ralston, a maternal fetal medicine “doctor” – testified that infants likely do not feel pain because, in his words, they are not “conscious beings.”

Posted by: Chuck Martel

>But these same nutjobs cry tears of woe when you throw a live lobster into a boiling pot for supper.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 18, 2026 03:51 PM (gVUi7)

119 During cross examination the German defense asked him to provide a sentence to include the words 'hunter', 'hare' and 'field'. He couldn't do it.
___

To be fair, the US media couldn't come up with a sentence that included 'hunter' and 'laptop'

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 18, 2026 03:52 PM (Dv3i1)

120 Not actually sure canuks killing each other is a bad thing.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 18, 2026 03:52 PM (pohLc)

121 It makes one wonder why Carney is so eager to align Canada with the world's largest market for human organs?

Posted by: mrp at February 18, 2026 03:52 PM (rj6Yv)

122 The German Christians in the early stages of T4 did object so the NAZIs got creative with causes if death.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2026 03:52 PM (AoZSo)

123 111
I used to think that assisted suicide's greatest evil is in co-opting the medical profession into murder, and shitting all over the Hippocratic Oath. Turns out that the medical profession didn't need assistance to commit murder after all.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 18, 2026 03:50 PM (kTyBw)

Hitler's killing of the disabled was decided on AND carried out by the doctors. So, it's not a new thing...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 03:52 PM (tOcjL)

124 lump gravy was joe biden's high school band

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 18, 2026 03:52 PM (CWTWj)

125 105 Will the names of the members of the Death Panels be secret?
Posted by: davidt at February 18, 2026 03:49 PM (Q+gd/)

I imagine they'd proudly declare their bounties.

Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 03:52 PM (+YA9H)

126 There's a scene in Judgment in Nuremburg where Montgomery Clift plays a low IQ guy whom the Nazi's sterilized for the good of the Reich.

During cross examination the German defense asked him to provide a sentence to include the words 'hunter', 'hare' and 'field'. He couldn't do it.
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Montgomery Clift was a fag. He was also my MILs favorite actor as a kid.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 03:52 PM (pZ64F)

127 >>But these same nutjobs cry tears of woe when you throw a live lobster into a boiling pot for supper.

Nothing is funnier than when one takes a lobster to a lake and releases it.

I have seen this happen more than once.

Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2026 03:52 PM (1Udfd)

128 112 100% true. Hitler systematically killed the disabled long before he started on the Jews. It's b/c there was no real outcry against this practice that Hitler kept going.
Posted by: Nova Local
_______________________

I visited Dauchau Concentration Camp. It's a museum of sorts now. And, they made a point of telling us that the mentally ill, deformed, and infirm were housed there with the academics even before Jews were being rounded up.

Posted by: Orson at February 18, 2026 03:53 PM (dIske)

129 The German Christians in the early stages of T4 did object so the NAZIs got creative with causes if death.

Archbishop Galen was a thorn in the NAZIs side. They consider having him killed or arrested but decided to wait until after they won the war to do so.

Fortunately, obviously, they never got that opportunity.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2026 03:53 PM (sKqQm)

130 While it is little consolation to this family, those who play God will face terrific consequences.

Posted by: Piper at February 18, 2026 03:53 PM (p4NUW)

131 If they start euthanizing Canadian Geese I'm down with it. Foul birds that they are.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 18, 2026 03:53 PM (abIsI)

132 Imagine being a nurse in an American hospital who gets moist at the prospect of snuffing your patients, but the paper pushers at the hospital don't like when you do that.
Move to Canada! They probably have a death-angel visa by now.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 18, 2026 03:54 PM (gKWVE)

133 THE RIGHT PROFILE

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=ssFiUE-T2OA

Posted by: THE CLASH at February 18, 2026 03:54 PM (1Udfd)

134 If they start euthanizing Canadian Geese I'm down with it. Foul birds that they are.

Just get some Haitians to move to your town...problem solved

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2026 03:54 PM (sKqQm)

135 People are worried we're going to get a CCP puppet on our northern border. I think we might end up with North Korea.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 18, 2026 03:54 PM (cxFcK)

136 Remember when the left was like "Ha, ha--death panels! You guys are crazy conspiracy theorists."

And Snoopes was like, "false, a board of politically appointed members who decide who deserves treatment is not a death panel. It's merely a recommendation of costs savings."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 18, 2026 03:54 PM (HXT0k)

137 >But these same nutjobs cry tears of woe when you throw a live lobster into a boiling pot for supper.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

The lobster was innocent, while white American and Canadian babies are born with the original sin of being oppressive colonizers. Removing them from the population to let brown and black people take over is natural and healing.

Also, replacement theory is a racist lie.

Posted by: Retarded Leftists at February 18, 2026 03:54 PM (ycI94)

138 hunter harefield was my nom de plume in high school

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 18, 2026 03:54 PM (CWTWj)

139 I wonder how many people in Canada who got murdered by government doctors were Dusky Bulls from Beyond the Seas.

Because I have a bunch the answer is "0."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 18, 2026 03:55 PM (OX5EB)

140 (And you better get ready for Leftist demands for PR and DC statehood).
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 03:46 PM (utKUq)

There is a process for accepting states, and DC doesn't qualify, and PR would be insane to accept it due to their tax status.
AB is Canada's Texas, and most of the Albertans I have met have been pretty based, and are really really really pissed about being lorded over by their "Laurentian elites" and the Greens. If they had access to a port and permission to drill, they would be richer than Dubai. At the moment they have nothing but Ottawa keeping them from extracting oil, and sucking all their money away to support the greater Canadian welfare state and slush fund

Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 03:55 PM (rbvCR)

141 I saw one woman from Canada posted her story - she needed so see some expert for a treatable condition. Her PCP told her that the wait for the expert was 6 months but the wait time for MAID was only 2 weeks...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

142 Then there is the NAZI pro T4 film 'Life without Meaning.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2026 03:55 PM (AoZSo)

143 BTW, folks, were you aware that Euthanasia is available and legal in Washington, D.C. and the states of California, Colorado, Delaware, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico, Maine, New Jersey, Hawaii, Washington, New York and Montana?

Posted by: Orson at February 18, 2026 03:55 PM (dIske)

144 At least he didn't have them cut off his dick.

... what?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 18, 2026 03:56 PM (jtM2q)

145 I saw this episode of STNG.......Winchester turns 60 and reports to the glue factory to make space for younger more virile scientists

that's what the last handgrenade is for

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at February 18, 2026 03:56 PM (jrgJz)

146 0-0 heading into the second. It's time to send these halibut chokers home to cry in their lutefisk.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 18, 2026 03:57 PM (MGB5H)

147 141 I saw one woman from Canada posted her story - she needed so see some expert for a treatable condition. Her PCP told her that the wait for the expert was 6 months but the wait time for MAID was only 2 weeks...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

They also are 10-15 years behind current cancer treatments, b/c cancer is also very expensive, so they don't want you living longer or happier...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 03:57 PM (tOcjL)

148 Protecting yourself and your family begins with picking up His book. It’s not a story, it’s an instruction manual. Like every other human endeavor, you will fail in something. Some of us, more than others. Do not be dissuaded. Why do O say that? Because He told us.

Aim for the narrow gate.

He is with you, always. Even when you don’t believe He is there. Even in your worst moments when you ask, where is He in all of this?

I have love through a lot. I used to say, “I should have died many times”. But then I realized it was all part of his plan for me to live.

Live your life. Endeavor to follow his ways. Admit your failings. Ask for forgiveness. Always remember she will not abandon you.

You will live a better, more fruitful and happy life.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 18, 2026 03:58 PM (PxIWo)

149 I drive through McDonald's. They got my order wrong. Suicide?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 18, 2026 03:58 PM (FXNzP)

150 >>I visited Dauchau Concentration Camp. It's a museum of sorts now. And, they made a point of telling us that the mentally ill, deformed, and infirm were housed there with the academics even before Jews were being rounded up.

Yes.
But, the murder of Jewish Populations started far afield...it wasn't industrialized early on.

They had purpose built vehicles roaming the lands killing ALL the undesireables from the first moment they could.

Posted by: THE CLASH at February 18, 2026 03:58 PM (1Udfd)

151
Assisted suicide my ass. Hundreds of thousands do it themselves every year without any help.

Buy enough fentanyl from your friendly neighborhood drug dealer to do the job with one jab.

Empty your medicine cabinet of OTC drugs into your soup.

Break out some rope and do the air dance.

Eat some poutine.

The local railway bridge is thataway.

Walk the street yelling "I have evidence that will put Hillary Clinton in prison for life!"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 18, 2026 03:58 PM (kTyBw)

152 143 BTW, folks, were you aware that Euthanasia is available and legal in Washington, D.C. and the states of California, Colorado, Delaware, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico, Maine, New Jersey, Hawaii, Washington, New York and Montana?
Posted by: Orson at February 18, 2026

May God forgive the decadence.

Posted by: Piper at February 18, 2026 03:58 PM (p4NUW)

153 But people blowing their brains out is still illegal in Canada?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 18, 2026 03:58 PM (AoZSo)

154 Then there is the NAZI pro T4 film 'Life without Meaning.'

It is the LOGICAL outcome of adopting a collectivist mindset.

The argument the Germans made at the time was supporting people that couldn't produce economic value was stealing money and time from productive people and therefore unfair to those "superior" people.

The answer is an individualist mindset but...that's not something nationalist or internationalist socialists will agree to

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2026 03:58 PM (sKqQm)

155 When you turn your nation into a nursing home you shouldn't be surprised you are an expendable. Then there is delayed adolescence that these nursing homes invest in.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 03:59 PM (pZ64F)

156 My future journal:

And when the death squads started roaming the country hunting down leftists I said, "Huh, I guess they were depressed and needed assistance to ease their suffering."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 18, 2026 03:59 PM (HXT0k)

157 I saw one woman from Canada posted her story - she needed so see some expert for a treatable condition. Her PCP told her that the wait for the expert was 6 months but the wait time for MAID was only 2 weeks...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)
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Well, sure there's a short waiting line for MAID.

It's a "treatment" that always works and you never have to deal with that "patient" ever again.

Snake-oil salesmen wish they had it so good.

/sarc

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 18, 2026 03:59 PM (ESVrU)

158 146 0-0 heading into the second. It's time to send these halibut chokers home to cry in their lutefisk.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Hey! It was totally consensual! She told me she was into that roughy stuff!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 18, 2026 03:59 PM (ycI94)

159 I drive through McDonald's. They got my order wrong. Suicide?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Nah, dawg. Dats wen you callz 911.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 18, 2026 04:00 PM (yxj8r)

160 55 Jack Kevorkian is laughing in hell.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2026 03:44 PM (77rzZ

Once when I was being examined by an ophthalmologist I brought up Kevorkian. Thought the guy was going to rip my head off.

Posted by: Javems at February 18, 2026 04:00 PM (zFsEm)

161 143 BTW, folks, were you aware that Euthanasia is available and legal in Washington, D.C. and the states of California, Colorado, Delaware, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico, Maine, New Jersey, Hawaii, Washington, New York and Montana?
Posted by: Orson at February 18, 2026 03:55 PM (dIske)

Google and Wikipedia tell me that active euthanasia is illegal in all US states.

Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 04:01 PM (+YA9H)

162 There is a process for accepting states, and DC doesn't qualify, and PR would be insane to accept it due to their tax status.
AB is Canada's Texas, and most of the Albertans I have met have been pretty based, and are really really really pissed about being lorded over by their "Laurentian elites" and the Greens. If they had access to a port and permission to drill, they would be richer than Dubai. At the moment they have nothing but Ottawa keeping them from extracting oil, and sucking all their money away to support the greater Canadian welfare state and slush fund
Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 03:55 PM (rbvCR)

No. They are habituated in the habits of the land if their birth, Canada. Accept that. They have a parliamentary system and think it is much too hard and inhumane to pay for their own doctor.

Let them be independent. We sign treaties with them and get along with an independent AB just fine.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 04:01 PM (uKe7i)

163 so for a contrast to this depressing thread. From Military times:

The Department of Veterans Affairs has ended a practice that prevented veterans who can’t manage their finances from owning guns, a change officials say will restore constitutional rights to nearly 200,000 former service members.

The VA announced Tuesday it will immediately stop reporting veterans to the FBI’s national background check database if they need a fiduciary to help manage their benefits.

Proponents of the decades-old policy have said it protects veterans with mental impairments by limiting access to a lethal means of suicide. But major veteran advocacy groups and gun rights organizations have long argued the notifications weren’t based on thorough mental assessments and actually prevented veterans from seeking help for fear of losing their 2nd Amendment rights.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 04:01 PM (rbvCR)

164 The people involved should be prosecuted by the Trump admin. How? F' if I know.

If their organs are being harvested, there's probably some law that could be used.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 18, 2026 04:01 PM (diia5)

165 They also are 10-15 years behind current cancer treatments, b/c cancer is also very expensive, so they don't want you living longer or happier...
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Ever read Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward?

Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 04:02 PM (pZ64F)

166 Alberta has a Calgary Problem.

Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2026 04:02 PM (1Udfd)

167 Colorado calls it 'medical aid in dying'

Posted by: Don Black: Careful, he might be joking at February 18, 2026 04:02 PM (ZxPkt)

168 Hochul signed the assisted suicide bill into law. I'm sure the regulations will be ridiculous, and the first case involving suicide v murder will come soon

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 18, 2026 04:02 PM (Kc+Vz)

169 ... but this is uncharted territory for me.

Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 04:03 PM (+YA9H)

170 I'm a Type 1 diabetic.

I have been since I was 4 years old.

I'll turn 46 later this year.

With today's medicine and technology as far as CGMS systems and insulin pumps, combined with our better understanding of how the endocrine system works - its easier now to live as a Type 1 than it ever has been. Yes there are rough days, but there are many, many more good ones where I give thanks to God that I live in the day and age that I do. If I had been born even 20 yeas prior - I'd probably be looking at a life span of 50 years or less. Now, I'll be kicking well past my sell-by date.

The fact that this man was blind was probably a side effect of Type 1. I've had 6 eye surgeries/laser treatments to treat my diabetic retinopathy.

I'm going to put money on the table and bet that as a Canadian, this poor guy didn't have access ot the medicine, technology and healthcare facilities I did.

(to be continued...)

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 18, 2026 04:03 PM (WYStd)

171 Anyone here ever known someone who did assisted suicide? I knew someone. His situation was not a whimsical matter.

Posted by: tubal at February 18, 2026 04:03 PM (pDt9x)

172 165 They also are 10-15 years behind current cancer treatments, b/c cancer is also very expensive, so they don't want you living longer or happier...
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Ever read Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward?
Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 04:02 PM (pZ64F)

Nah - I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich with the girls when we did Russian Lit and that was depressing enough...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 04:04 PM (tOcjL)

173 It’s not suicide when you kill someone or help them end their life. Especially if you help to convince them that suicide is the answer.

I have lost too many friends to suicide. It is the epitome of hopelessness. It is a dead end and final act of desperation. It is a failed attempt at giving people hope, of convincing them there is a life worth living. But it’s ultimately their choice, not yours.

Evil wears many faces. One of them is the disguise of compassion.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 18, 2026 04:04 PM (PxIWo)

174 Yes yes yes. Polls are for strippers and homosexuals and gay rentboys. But ... this is interesting. Do I believe it? No, I don't believe it. But it's ... interesting. Goes to Daily Caller

Republicans Pull Ahead In Deep Blue State, Polls Show

With roughly four months until California's jungle primary, when the top two performers advance to the general election regardless of party, Democratic contenders continue to lose ground.

A new Emerson College Polling survey released Wednesday shows GOP candidate Steve Hilton leading with 17% support, followed by fellow Republican Chad Bianco and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell tied at 14%. Former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter trails at 10%.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 18, 2026 04:04 PM (iFTx/)

175
Old and busted: Do no harm
New hotness: Help them buy the farm

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at February 18, 2026 04:04 PM (JRP2U)

176 Let them be independent. We sign treaties with them and get along with an independent AB just fine.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 04:01 PM (uKe7i)

AB is too valuable for Ottawa to let go. They will invade, invalidate, and they will get European or Chinese help.
Better they are a territory or a protectorate under the US so they can set their national government, and establish their own military.
They can pay their own way, just as well as Venezuela can.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 04:04 PM (rbvCR)

177 If you vote against the government's interests you're mentally ill. The Soviets would exile you to Siberia. Canada just kills you.

Posted by: torabora at February 18, 2026 04:05 PM (PO53r)

178 Colorado End-of-Life Options Act
In 2016, Colorado voters approved Proposition 106, “Access to Medical Aid In Dying,” which amends Colorado statutes to include the Colorado End-of-life Options Act (hereinafter “Act” at Article 48 of Title 25, C.R.S. The Act:
Allows an eligible terminally ill individual with a prognosis of six months or less to live to request and self-administer medical aid-in-dying medication in order to voluntarily end his or her life,
Authorizes a provider to prescribe medical aid-in-dying medication to a terminally ill individual under certain conditions, and
Creates criminal penalties for tampering with a person's request for medical aid-in-dying medication or knowingly coercing a person with a terminal illness to request the medication.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 18, 2026 04:05 PM (gKWVE)

179 172 165 They also are 10-15 years behind current cancer treatments, b/c cancer is also very expensive, so they don't want you living longer or happier...
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Ever read Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward?
Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 04:02 PM (pZ64F)

Nah - I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich with the girls when we did Russian Lit and that was depressing enough...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 04:04 PM (tOcjL)

The Cancer Ward is a very good book. His best I think.

Posted by: tubal at February 18, 2026 04:05 PM (pDt9x)

180 We are now at the "it IS happening and it's a great thing" stage of the meme

Posted by: Palin warned us and we scoffed at February 18, 2026 04:05 PM (TbWk/)

181 Yes yes yes. Polls are for strippers and homosexuals and gay rentboys. But ... this is interesting. Do I believe it? No, I don't believe it. But it's ... interesting. Goes to Daily Caller

Republicans Pull Ahead In Deep Blue State, Polls Show

With roughly four months until California's jungle primary, when the top two performers advance to the general election regardless of party, Democratic contenders continue to lose ground.

A new Emerson College Polling survey released Wednesday shows GOP candidate Steve Hilton leading with 17% support, followed by fellow Republican Chad Bianco and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell tied at 14%. Former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter trails at 10%.

https://tinyurl.com/4kssk853

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 18, 2026 04:05 PM (iFTx/)

182 For example, the way I found out that I needed eye surgery was that I moved to a new state and I realized my vision was getting blurry. I went to the optometrist who did the standard tests. He took one look at an "OCT" scan of my eyeball and said "wait here". Got the Ophthalmologist from down the hall who was between patients. Said "you have diabetic retinopathy and not an insignificant case." I had been wondering what the floaters in my vision were all about. Anyways, the next DAY I was in the chair, getting PRP Argon Laser treatments which hurt like f*** but they saved my eyes. Later I got a vitrectomy. Again, sucked but I have eyesight.
I'm more than willing to bet that this guy didn't have access to that level of treatment that I did.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 18, 2026 04:05 PM (WYStd)

183 Nah - I read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich with the girls when we did Russian Lit and that was depressing enough...
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I've got a copy but haven't read it yet. I got a big pile of books Imma gonna read.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 04:05 PM (pZ64F)

184 174 A new Emerson College Polling survey released Wednesday shows GOP candidate Steve Hilton leading with 17% support, followed by fellow Republican Chad Bianco and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell tied at 14%. Former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter trails at 10%.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 18, 2026 04:04 PM (iFTx/)

=======

It'd just be hilarious if the jungle primary led to two GOP candidates.

Just imagine the depressed turnout.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

185
Detransers will be a familiar sight at MAID. These are the people who regret their permanent, life-altering surgeries and chemical castrations.

Saw a Swedish documentary about their misbegotten experimentation with transgendering people.

One regretful detranser was finally told they're all out of medical remedies to restore her sexuality, but -- she was approved for assisted suicide.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 18, 2026 04:06 PM (JifIm)

186 I'm going to put money on the table and bet that as a Canadian, this poor guy didn't have access ot the medicine, technology and healthcare facilities I did.

(to be continued...)
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 18, 2026 04:03 PM (WYStd)

I know that's the case for blood cancers - they barely have any hematologist oncologists in Canada, the entire country, let alone any of the current cutting edge treatments.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 04:06 PM (tOcjL)

187 Every day I read a story that I was assured would never happen and I'm a conspiracy theorist for even suggesting things like this will happen.

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills and it makes me suspect this is what they want to happen.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Posted by: CaliGirl at February 18, 2026 04:06 PM (SF37t)

188 That's a head scratcher all right.

BREAKING: Karoline Leavitt just EMBARRASSED a reporter who asked, "When has Trump ever been falsely called a racist?!"

"You're KIDDING, right?!"

"I'm sure there's many people in THIS ROOM and on network television across the country who have accused him of the same."

"I will pull you a PLETHORA of examples. I'm going to get my team in that room to start going through the internet of radical Democrats throughout the years, Ed, who have accused this president falsely of being a racist."

"He has ABSOLUTELY been falsely called and smeared as a racist and I'm happy to provide you those receipts and we gladly will right after this briefing!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 18, 2026 04:06 PM (FXNzP)

189 Polls are how I make my money, sweetheart.

Posted by: Stormy at February 18, 2026 04:06 PM (PO53r)

190 I assume that the medical profession in discussion with the patient and families have helped people end their pain. I don't think it has to be legalized, bureaucratized or monetized

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 18, 2026 04:06 PM (Kc+Vz)

191 171 Anyone here ever known someone who did assisted suicide? I knew someone. His situation was not a whimsical matter.
Posted by: tubal at February 18, 2026 04:03 PM (pDt9x)

No - I've known multiple folks who have said "no more" to cancer treatments, including my dad, so the inevitable inevitably happened...and usually soon. But no one who was like "I'm gonna take God's job on today"...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 04:07 PM (tOcjL)

192 France is also introducing MAID *and* making it illegal for family members to try and stop it. Did Hillary Clinton write the law for them?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 18, 2026 04:07 PM (2ocoG)

193 Funny watching the Canadian snowbirds race back to update their socialized health benefits every year. Mass exodus from FL and AZ to the Great White North to keep their shitty healthcare free.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 18, 2026 04:07 PM (abIsI)

194 In the age of Cretinous Collegesious, there was an arrogant, young, female biology prof who said, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they had created life down in the lab and it would not be long before they created other miraculous things.

This god virus has been germinating for a long time.
We can't nip it in the bud but we can terminate it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 18, 2026 04:08 PM (LA6Ib)

195 170 I'm a Type 1 diabetic.

I have been since I was 4 years old.

I'll turn 46 later this year.
...
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 18, 2026 04:03 PM (WYStd)

Thanks for this, Defenestratus.

Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 04:08 PM (+YA9H)

196 If they start euthanizing Canadian Geese I'm down with it. Foul birds that they are.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 18, 2026 03:53 PM (abIsI)

Anybody who has a problem with Canada Gooses has a problem with me. I suggest you let that marinate for a little while.

Posted by: Wayne from Letterkenny at February 18, 2026 04:08 PM (tceez)

197 >>>Hochul signed the assisted suicide bill into law. I'm sure the regulations will be ridiculous, and the first case involving suicide v murder will come soon

Posted by: Smell the Glove

>Cuomo is your go-to man. Job security.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 18, 2026 04:08 PM (gVUi7)

198 The purpose of a system is what it does.

Remember the people that tell us that things like MAID are good for society also tell us that 95% of the population must be eliminated to avoid an environmental catastrophe.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm)

199 Also as a type 1, I've had neuropathic pain in my feet. When I took better care of myself, it went away. In fact I've slowly regained feeling in my feet and temperature sensitivity. No longer are my feet always cold.

Even when I did have neuropathic pain, it wasn't the end of the world. It was sharp, intense random pain but it was over as quickly as it happened.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 18, 2026 04:08 PM (WYStd)

200 The Cancer Ward is a very good book. His best I think.
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That was my opinion, too. But I've only read the Gulag thing and the First Circle.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 04:09 PM (pZ64F)

201 Hochul signed the assisted suicide bill into law. I'm sure the regulations will be ridiculous, and the first case involving suicide v murder will come soon

Can people sign Mamdami up for it?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 18, 2026 04:09 PM (2ocoG)

202 A new Emerson College Polling survey released Wednesday shows GOP candidate Steve Hilton leading with 17% support, followed by fellow Republican Chad Bianco and Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell tied at 14%. Former Democratic Rep. Katie Porter trails at 10%.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 18, 2026 04:04 PM (iFTx/)

=======

It'd just be hilarious if the jungle primary led to two GOP candidates.

Just imagine the depressed turnout.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 04:05 PM (GBKbO)
____

In the entire state of deep-blue CA, the entire Democrap machine can't shit out any better turds that Fartswell and Pooper? Seriously? These two weirdo losers are all they got?

I assume that someone less repulsive and with better name recognition will enter the race, assuming that's still possible.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 18, 2026 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

203 They also are 10-15 years behind current cancer treatments, b/c cancer is also very expensive, so they don't want you living longer or happier...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 03:57 PM (tOcjL)

Here in the states insurance companies will make you go through several rounds of multiple ineffective chemo agents before they let you try the one that your oncologist believes will actually work. Why? Because that effect chemo agent is expensive. They don't want you to get well they want you to die.

Posted by: Good for shareholders at February 18, 2026 04:09 PM (TbWk/)

204 Why does a health care system need doctors when anyone can stick a needle in you to stop the problem?

Just like what our Planned Parenthood does.

Posted by: torabora at February 18, 2026 04:10 PM (PO53r)

205 We have asked, how could the Nazis have done such things? Why did the people allow it?

Folks, those questions are being answered in real time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 18, 2026 04:10 PM (LA6Ib)

206 202 In the entire state of deep-blue CA, the entire Democrap machine can't shit out any better turds that Fartswell and Pooper? Seriously? These two weirdo losers are all they got?

I assume that someone less repulsive and with better name recognition will enter the race, assuming that's still possible.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 18, 2026 04:09 PM (iFTx/)

=======

There's just no way that poll comes close to reality, though.

Still, it's a fun thought.

I'm going to have to entertain myself with white progressives crashing out because an obvious grifter with black skin beats their obvious grifter with white skin in Texas, all to lost by nearly a dozen points to "impeached by his own party" Paxton.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 04:10 PM (GBKbO)

207 In the entire state of deep-blue CA, the entire Democrap machine can't shit out any better turds that Fartswell and Pooper? Seriously? These two weirdo losers are all they got?

I assume that someone less repulsive and with better name recognition will enter the race, assuming that's still possible.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Well Xavier Bacerra is also running. Does that help?

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 18, 2026 04:11 PM (MGB5H)

208 We have asked, how could the Nazis have done such things? Why did the people allow it?

While I suspect most Germans in the 30s would have voted against mass killing of the disabled, few Germans were willing to do anything to stop it either.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)

209 128 Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp. It was set up in 1933 shortly after Hitler came to power.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2026 04:11 PM (77rzZ)

210 191 171 Anyone here ever known someone who did assisted suicide? I knew someone. His situation was not a whimsical matter.
Posted by: tubal at February 18, 2026 04:03 PM (pDt9x)

No - I've known multiple folks who have said "no more" to cancer treatments, including my dad, so the inevitable inevitably happened...and usually soon. But no one who was like "I'm gonna take God's job on today"...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 04:07 PM (tOcjL)

This was a cancer situation. Glioblastoma multiforme. He was losing a little more of everything day by day. I suppose on balance I do not approve of assisted suicide, or suicide for that matter, but living in the situations that instigate it are often pretty gut wrenching, would you agree?

Posted by: tubal at February 18, 2026 04:11 PM (pDt9x)

211 Canada has one of the highest rates of medically assisted deaths in the world, 5.1 percent, or a total of 16,499 deaths in 2024.

Just imagine what that rate will be in ten years.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 18, 2026 04:12 PM (n1OCj)

212 191 171 Anyone here ever known someone who did assisted suicide? I knew someone. His situation was not a whimsical matter.
Posted by: tubal at February 18, 2026 04:03 PM (pDt9x)

No - I've known multiple folks who have said "no more" to cancer treatments, including my dad, so the inevitable inevitably happened...and usually soon. But no one who was like "I'm gonna take God's job on today"...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 04:07 PM (tOcjL)

Saying "no more" seems in the same range as signing a Do Not Resuscitate order.

Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 04:12 PM (+YA9H)

213 211 Canada has one of the highest rates of medically assisted deaths in the world, 5.1 percent, or a total of 16,499 deaths in 2024.

Just imagine what that rate will be in ten years.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 18, 2026 04:12 PM (n1OCj)

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How else is Canada supposed to make Canada India in record time?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

214 Next time, they'll be ready.

Report: New Zealand's military held training exercises to respond to fictional Christian terror group

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 18, 2026 04:13 PM (FXNzP)

215 I'm a Type 1 diabetic.
I have been since I was 4 years old.
I'll turn 46 later this year.
Posted by: Defenestratus

DO NOT use your nic when talking to a Canadian doctor (or a Russian one for that matter).

Posted by: Presidential Polio at February 18, 2026 04:13 PM (w9Wax)

216 203 They also are 10-15 years behind current cancer treatments, b/c cancer is also very expensive, so they don't want you living longer or happier...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 03:57 PM (tOcjL)

Here in the states insurance companies will make you go through several rounds of multiple ineffective chemo agents before they let you try the one that your oncologist believes will actually work. Why? Because that effect chemo agent is expensive. They don't want you to get well they want you to die.
Posted by: Good for shareholders at February 18, 2026 04:09 PM (TbWk/)

True - my private insurance would not approve the cutting edge one I requested (even though it was time-limited). But I got my 2nd choice (not time limited) b/c I proved the "original" chemos would not work (and with my genetic deletions, found b/c we do pay for genetic testing), so I skipped them. I highly encourage folks to get on cancer boards and chat with other patients who can help you know what is available and how. If you are an informed patient in the US with a doc who wants what's best for you, you can make much better treatment happen than the world gets...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 04:13 PM (tOcjL)

217
Google and Wikipedia tell me that active euthanasia is illegal in all US states.
Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 04:01 PM (+YA9H)
___________________________

Google and Wiki are full of shit. Here are the states where it is legal as well as the states that are trying to enact it.

https://tinyurl.com/4b5cvaz2

Posted by: Orson at February 18, 2026 04:13 PM (dIske)

218 How soon before some country like Canada or UK brings back:

-- human sacrifice
-- child sacrifice
-- proud and public pederasty like in Roman times
-- cannibalism
-- 8-track cassettes

???

Serious questions.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 18, 2026 04:13 PM (iFTx/)

219 Canada is also discussing killing severely disabled infants.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 18, 2026 04:14 PM (n1OCj)

220 purpose of a system is what it does.

Remember the people that tell us that things like MAID are good for society also tell us that 95% of the population must be eliminated to avoid an environmental catastrophe.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 18, 2026 04:08 PM (sKqQm
****
Finally someone on here gets it.
Do yourself...for the planet.
And use one of those composter things for your corpse.

Posted by: Algore, environmental expert at February 18, 2026 04:14 PM (PO53r)

221 Why does a health care system need doctors when anyone can stick a needle in you to stop the problem?

Strap them to an ice hockey goal right before slapshot practice.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 18, 2026 04:14 PM (abIsI)

222 "How can Republicans call themselves the pro-life party if they don't support assisted suicide?"
-some leftist, probably

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

223 Alberta has a Calgary Problem.
Posted by: garrett

Dr. Calgary? So MAID is sending out Cesare the Somnambulist to kill people?

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2026 04:15 PM (77rzZ)

224 What if you're not depressed, you're just really pissed off all the time. Will that become an executable reason? Asking for a friend

Posted by: Mohammed al Muhammad at February 18, 2026 04:15 PM (GI9/m)

225 This was a cancer situation. Glioblastoma multiforme. He was losing a little more of everything day by day. I suppose on balance I do not approve of assisted suicide, or suicide for that matter, but living in the situations that instigate it are often pretty gut wrenching, would you agree?
Posted by: tubal at February 18, 2026

Of course they are, it’s horrific, and I am so sorry your friend went through this. This is definitely when faith gets tested, and even if you believe strongly, as I do, it doesn’t make doing the right thing easier. But it still requires you to do the right thing. Hope that makes sense.

Posted by: Piper at February 18, 2026 04:16 PM (pZEOD)

226 Report: New Zealand's military held training exercises to respond to fictional Christian terror group

Is New Zealand's military like Canada's where it's half a dozen Mounties and a couple of Hiluxes with machine gun mounts?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 18, 2026 04:16 PM (2ocoG)

227 It's moider I tells ya.

Posted by: Bugsy at February 18, 2026 04:16 PM (UjdFS)

228 >>>Depression is an expensive illness to treat

not to mention you can diagnose anyone as having it, if that is your goal

"have you ever been sad?"

"yes."

"we got another one!"

Posted by: brak at February 18, 2026 04:16 PM (jGJov)

229 When Kevorkian was plying his trade and the assisted-suicide idea was being debated, my parents had to get a new doctor. They asked him whether he'd assist in a suicide and he almost sent them packing before he realized they didn't want a doctor who believed in that rot.

It's a shame it's only gotten worse since then.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 18, 2026 04:16 PM (fxCK2)

230 Why should taxpayers have to pay to assist?

Let them do it the old fashioned way. It's bad enough taxpayers have to pay for the cleaning. And it's less cowardly.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 18, 2026 04:17 PM (gVUi7)

231 Heh, I had a Wendy's Spicy Chicken for dinner last night. I dosed it with honey. It was very nice. Now, don't kill me.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 18, 2026 04:17 PM (pZ64F)

232 Universal health care is expensive, killing people saves the state money.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 18, 2026 04:17 PM (0U5gm)

233 Canada killed over 300 ostriches, at an ostrich ranch, due to fears over avian flu, even though each bird had been given a clean bill of health, and despite zoos and ostrich farms/attractions in other countries agreeing to take them in. Canada just likes killing. The Wifey followed the story and was horrified.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 18, 2026 03:48 PM (yxj8r)

England does that with human children on the regular.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2026 04:17 PM (8avO+)

234 DO NOT use your nic when talking to a Canadian doctor (or a Russian one for that matter).
Posted by: Presidential Polio at February 18, 2026 04:13 PM (w9Wax)

lol I use this name because back in college I threw a drug dealer out of the (open) window of my dormitory because he wouldn't leave after the 3rd time I asked him politely.

It was only the 1st floor and there were hedges underneath. He was fine but the point was made.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 18, 2026 04:17 PM (WYStd)

235 We have assisted suicide in this country. It is called hospice. Nothing is denied hospice patients, so they load them up with morphine and for some strange reason they all stop breathing.

DH's mom did that to her mom, because she had end stage lung cancer. Picked a good day, and, boom. No grandma.

It happens all of the time.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 18, 2026 04:18 PM (I40wl)

236 How else is Canada supposed to make Canada India in record time?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

I would like to see the rate of native, European, and First Nations numbers for utilizing MAiD versus the Indians, Sikhs, and other ‘New’ Canadians.

I bet the numbers would be very interesting.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 18, 2026 04:18 PM (6ydKt)

237 lol I use this name because back in college I threw a drug dealer out of the (open) window of my dormitory because he wouldn't leave after the 3rd time I asked him politely.

It was only the 1st floor and there were hedges underneath. He was fine but the point was made.
Posted by: Defenestratus at February 18, 2026 04:17 PM (WYStd)
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Were they very thorny hedges?...Lie to me if you have to.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 18, 2026 04:18 PM (ESVrU)

238 It's socialized medicine.. They have to cut costs somewhere.....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 18, 2026 04:19 PM (VE6XX)

239 Next time, they'll be ready.

Report: New Zealand's military held training exercises to respond to fictional Christian terror group
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 18, 2026 04:13 PM (FXNzP)

The Christians probably won.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2026 04:19 PM (8avO+)

240 170 I'll turn 46 later this year.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 18, 2026 04:03 PM (WYStd)

There are people (aside from me) under 60 on this site?

Posted by: XTC at February 18, 2026 04:19 PM (iXqHn)

241 A lot of Democrats are depressed because Trump. Just sayin'.

Posted by: davidt at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (Q+gd/)

242
Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 04:07 PM (tOcjL)

This was a cancer situation. Glioblastoma multiforme. He was losing a little more of everything day by day. I suppose on balance I do not approve of assisted suicide, or suicide for that matter, but living in the situations that instigate it are often pretty gut wrenching, would you agree?
Posted by: tubal at February 18, 2026 04:11 PM (pDt9x)

Of course, it's gut wrenching. It's why none of us kids decided to convince my dad to keep going. But letting God decide the time gave us weeks to see him and all say goodbye and let go. And him sticking around let him see pics of his 1st grandkid, born 5 weeks early on Dec 8, the Immaculate Conception, and he died 3 days before her original due date, 1 month after her birth, which meant I could travel with her to the funeral (and she was the 1st great grandkid, too).

God's will had to play a part in that timing...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (tOcjL)

243 Canada started going downhill when James Doohan died

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (Kc+Vz)

244 Do you want a leg or a wing?

Posted by: 'Barbecue' Jimmy Ch�rizier at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (PO53r)

245 but living in the situations that instigate it are often pretty gut wrenching, would you agree?
==
You dont have to use extraordinary means to sustain life if you have a problem like that. But i dont think getting hit on the head so they can throw you onto the cart is a good solution. Whether you ask someone to do it, or someone else does it to you. You can get pain killers and anxiolytics if you need them. Ultimately it is usually a neurotic control issue. You lost control over your life, and you want to reassert while you can. However one's sense of control while well is an illusion anyway. That lesson is hard learned, and harder unlearned.

Posted by: High fidelity at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (Pk3kd)

246 There are people (aside from me) under 60 on this site?
Posted by: XTC at February 18, 2026 04:19 PM (iXqHn)

I'm even behind defenstratus

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (MGB5H)

247 Wait, New Zealand is the place where the lesbian ship commander tried to scissor two ships and sank one, isn't it?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (2ocoG)

248 240 170 I'll turn 46 later this year.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 18, 2026 04:03 PM (WYStd)

There are people (aside from me) under 60 on this site?
Posted by: XTC at February 18, 2026 04:19 PM (iXqHn)

Get off my lawn whipper Snappers...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (VE6XX)

249 Were they very thorny hedges?...Lie to me if you have to.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 18, 2026 04:18 PM (ESVrU)

Boxwoods if I recall. Large ones. Believe me he got a stick put in places he probably didn't want it.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (WYStd)

250 Evidently, they cheat at something as mundane as curling, too.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (cxFcK)

251 225

Of course they are, it’s horrific, and I am so sorry your friend went through this. This is definitely when faith gets tested, and even if you believe strongly, as I do, it doesn’t make doing the right thing easier. But it still requires you to do the right thing. Hope that makes sense.
Posted by: Piper at February 18, 2026 04:16 PM (pZEOD)

It does. I have unhappily known 5 people who have died of glioblastoma multiforme, which is a lot, considering the uncommoness of it. Only one suicide. I am very much Christian and that made the man’s suicide a real test. Would I do it? No. Would I pray for a quick release? You betcha.

Posted by: tubal at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (pDt9x)

252 Posted by: tcn in AK at February 18, 2026 04:18 PM (I40wl)

My Mom died the night before we were going to put her in hospice. It was like she knew what was coming even though she had dementia, and opted out of it.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (77rzZ)

253 So he was blind and suffered from Type I diabetes, which I understand is quite treatable with injections. (Let me know if I'm wrong.)

Pretty sure type I diabetes was was treatable with injections four decades ago, when my grandmother had it, and had been dealing with via injections for about as long as I could then remember.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (EXyHK)

254 219 Canada is also discussing killing severely disabled infants.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 18, 2026 04:14 PM (n1OCj)

Iceland already has. They have zero downs babies. Guess why.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 18, 2026 04:21 PM (I40wl)

255 Next time, they'll be ready.

Report: New Zealand's military held training exercises to respond to fictional Christian terror group
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster!

The Kiwi artillery shoot fruit at their enemy.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 18, 2026 04:21 PM (abIsI)

256 >>>There are people (aside from me) under 60 on this site?

there's a few of us, though some threads it doesn't seem like it....

Posted by: brak at February 18, 2026 04:21 PM (jGJov)

257 Diabetes 1 is an insidious disease that slowly destroys your body from the inside out even if you are controlling with an insulin distribution device. Gastro issues, neuropathy, blindness, circulation issues, etc.

It is not as easy as taking your shot and living a healthy life into your late 70s.

Posted by: John McClane at February 18, 2026 04:21 PM (keR8U)

258 235 We have assisted suicide in this country. It is called hospice. Nothing is denied hospice patients, so they load them up with morphine and for some strange reason they all stop breathing.

DH's mom did that to her mom, because she had end stage lung cancer. Picked a good day, and, boom. No grandma.

It happens all of the time.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February

This was not my experience with my mother or my sister. Yes, they did more to manage pain, but they were watching doses with us. Maybe because we had hospice come to our home, it was different.

Posted by: Piper at February 18, 2026 04:21 PM (pZEOD)

259 Canada is also discussing killing severely disabled infants.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 18, 2026 04:14 PM (n1OCj)

There aren't enough of them to matter. This is just the nose in the door of killing live births on the regular.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2026 04:21 PM (8avO+)

260 256 >>>There are people (aside from me) under 60 on this site?

there's a few of us, though some threads it doesn't seem like it....

Posted by: brak at February 18, 2026 04:21 PM (jGJov)

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In my day, everyone was 29. Well, almost 29.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 04:21 PM (GBKbO)

261 Wait, New Zealand is the place where the lesbian ship commander tried to scissor two ships and sank one, isn't it?
Posted by: Ian S.

I remember that. If I recall right the ship was brand new, the pride of the fleet. Might have been on its shakedown cruise.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 18, 2026 04:21 PM (cxFcK)

262 There are people (aside from me) under 60 on this site?
Posted by: XTC at February 18, 2026 04:19 PM (iXqHn)

Get off my lawn whipper Snappers...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (VE6XX)

Would it blow your mind knowing that I started lurking here back ... oh... more than 10 years ago?

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 18, 2026 04:22 PM (WYStd)

263 Known fact that Canada assisted suicide sponsored by the government is killing over 16,000 people a year, as of 2025 data. in America only 14,000 people died of gun related homicides and accidental shootings. So we have guns and a Second Amendment and we kill less than the Canadian government does of their own people.
Posted by: Ellie Mentry at February 18, 2026 03:38 PM (VBSp6)

And Canada has a population a tenth that of the United States.
Posted by: Cow Demon at February 18, 2026 03:39 PM

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But the Canada assisted suicides are all voluntary and merciful!

--The Left

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 18, 2026 04:22 PM (1Au9i)

264 256 >>>There are people (aside from me) under 60 on this site?

there's a few of us, though some threads it doesn't seem like it....
Posted by: brak at February 18, 2026 04:21 PM

I am younger than 60.

Posted by: Piper at February 18, 2026 04:22 PM (pZEOD)

265 I recently lost an aunt to cancer at 82. The Horde was most kind with prayers. At the end she decided that no more treatment was necessary. It wasn't suicide , it was leaving the decision in the good Lord's hands

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 18, 2026 04:22 PM (Kc+Vz)

266 Boooooom 1-0 good guys

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 18, 2026 04:22 PM (MGB5H)

267 Is death by Snu-Snu suicide?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

268 There are people (aside from me) under 60 on this site?

there's a few of us, though some threads it doesn't seem like it....

Posted by: brak at February 18, 2026 04:21 PM (jGJov)

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In my day, everyone was 29. Well, almost 29.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 04:21 PM (GBKbO)
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"The Paolo is 13. Oh wait, that is, how you say, his length."

-- The Paolo

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 18, 2026 04:23 PM (iFTx/)

269 There are people (aside from me) under 60 on this site?
Posted by: XTC at February 18, 2026 04:19 PM (iXqHn)

TJM's not even old enough to drink legally.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

270 >>>Would it blow your mind knowing that I started lurking here back ... oh... more than 10 years ago?

I started lurking here ....20 years ago. Just past my college days. Time flies.

Posted by: brak at February 18, 2026 04:23 PM (jGJov)

271 Canada is also discussing killing severely disabled infants.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

They should discuss killing liberals. Talk about seriously retarded individuals.

Apologies to the mentally challenged.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 18, 2026 04:24 PM (wkRuV)

272 269 There are people (aside from me) under 60 on this site?
Posted by: XTC at February 18, 2026 04:19 PM (iXqHn)

TJM's not even old enough to drink legally.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

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I would get bad at this, but I don't know what it says.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

273 My uncle had Type I diabetes. He was born in 1920. My grandmother portioned every meal, and monitored him constantly. Once insulin became available he managed it all himself, and lived to be 59, which was remarkable for the time period. For most babies it was a death sentence.

It is very treatable now, except if you are a complete dolt.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 18, 2026 04:24 PM (I40wl)

274 Known fact that Canada assisted suicide sponsored by the government is killing over 16,000 people a year, as of 2025 data.

Would be interesting to get all that data and sort by race. I think we all know what it would find though.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 18, 2026 04:24 PM (2ocoG)

275 Are we talking about chronological or emotional age???

Posted by: tubal at February 18, 2026 04:24 PM (pDt9x)

276 My position generally stated is if, for example, someone has a brain tumor and every waking second is screaming agony, I think they should get ALL the morphine they want. If it ends up depressing respiration and he passes away, so be it. I don't believe that enduring genuine intractable suffering the likes of which we cannot truly fathom until you die naturally is somehow noble or virtuous.

Posted by: Fentanyl with a dilaudid chaser please at February 18, 2026 04:24 PM (TbWk/)

277 I am younger than 60.
Posted by: Piper

Too bad you weren't on the Art Thread this morning. Everyone was talking about the chick's clothes.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2026 04:24 PM (77rzZ)

278 MAID is now 4th or 5th in cause of death in Canada. Heart disease, cancer, accidents then either MAID or strokes. That is a stunning stat

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 18, 2026 04:24 PM (Kc+Vz)

279 I'll turn 46 later this year.

Posted by: Defenestratus at February 18, 2026 04:03 PM (WYStd)

There are people (aside from me) under 60 on this site?
Posted by: XTC at February 18, 2026 04:19 PM (iXqHn)

Get off my lawn whipper Snappers...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 18, 2026 04:20 PM (VE6XX)
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The Blade is a literary creation so he can be any age at any time

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 18, 2026 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

280 who suffered from seasonal depression…

Winter seasonal depression is one of the many psychological ailments that is measured on a scale. Everyone in Canada (and the northern states) has suffered from it at least once. Before life itself become a psychological disorder we in Michigan used to call it cabin fever, whether it involved a cabin or not.

No idea if that term is still in use, but this is pretty much a get-out-of-life-free card for anybody north of (and probably including) Missouri.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 18, 2026 04:25 PM (EXyHK)

281 How else is Canada supposed to make Canada India in record time?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 18, 2026 04:12 PM (GBKbO)

I would like to see the rate of native, European, and First Nations numbers for utilizing MAiD versus the Indians, Sikhs, and other ‘New’ Canadians.

I bet the numbers would be very interesting.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 18, 2026 04:18 PM (6ydKt)

Probably just what you think. Denmark was caught doing various tricks to reduce the Inuit native population in Greenland up to the 1970s-1980s

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2026 04:25 PM (8avO+)

282 Could a person request death by Sydney Sweeney?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 18, 2026 04:25 PM (abIsI)

283 Are we talking about chronological or emotional age???
Posted by: tubal

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2026 04:25 PM (77rzZ)

284 Would it blow your mind knowing that I started lurking here back ... oh... more than 10 years ago?

I started lurking here ....20 years ago. Just past my college days. Time flies.
Posted by: brak

We were just talking about partying after work and I said, "Well, it was 41 years ago".

Jackass kid says, "I'm only 33".

F'n punk.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 18, 2026 04:25 PM (wkRuV)

285 >>I started lurking here ....20 years ago. Just past my college days. Time flies.

I remember those days.

Ace owes you a pineapple. It's in your contract.

Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2026 04:26 PM (1Udfd)

286 It wasn't suicide , it was leaving the decision in the good Lord's hands
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 18, 2026 04:22 PM (Kc+Vz)

Precisely. You did not make yourself alive. You do not get to make yourself dead. The idea that people have more insight into life than God is.... stupid.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 18, 2026 04:26 PM (I40wl)

287 Could a person request death by Sydney Sweeney?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Suffocation by massive pillows.

Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2026 04:26 PM (77rzZ)

288 >>>Evidently, they cheat at something as mundane as curling, too.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

>Fuck off!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 18, 2026 04:26 PM (gVUi7)

289 279 The Blade is a literary creation so he can be any age at any time
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 18, 2026 04:24 PM (iFTx/)

*points*

OLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLD!

Posted by: XTC at February 18, 2026 04:27 PM (iXqHn)

290 Could a person request death by Sydney Sweeney?
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Suffocation by massive pillows.
Posted by: Bulg at February 18, 2026 04:26 PM (77rzZ)
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"Why does the cause of death say "snu-snu" on the death certificate?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 18, 2026 04:27 PM (ESVrU)

291 who suffered from seasonal depression…

Winter seasonal depression is one of the many psychological ailments that is measured on a scale. Everyone in Canada (and the northern states) has suffered from it at least once. Before life itself become a psychological disorder we in Michigan used to call it cabin fever, whether it involved a cabin or not.

No idea if that term is still in use, but this is pretty much a get-out-of-life-free card for anybody north of (and probably including) Missouri.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

SAD.
Seasonal Affective Disorder, aka, lack of sunshine.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 18, 2026 04:27 PM (wkRuV)

292 I just turned 60. Been hanging around here since about 2006.

Jeepers. I need a hobby.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 18, 2026 04:28 PM (PSEDc)

293 The first treatments of Type 1 diabetes was prior to WW2

Posted by: Kindltot at February 18, 2026 04:28 PM (rbvCR)

294 Canada started going downhill when ~~James Doohan died~~ Dudley Do-Right was cancelled.
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Posted by: wth at February 18, 2026 04:28 PM (UjdFS)

295 Canadians need to take more Vitamin D during their six month winters.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 18, 2026 04:28 PM (6ydKt)

296 It is entirely possible my grandmother’s diabetes was not type I. All I remember is that (a) it was diabetes, and (b) she administered regular shots to herself to manage it. I believe it was insulin.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 18, 2026 04:28 PM (EXyHK)

297 >>>They don't want you to get well they want you to die.
Posted by: Good for shareholders
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There is a place for you but it's not here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 18, 2026 04:29 PM (LA6Ib)

298 It wasn't suicide , it was leaving the decision in the good Lord's hands
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 18, 2026 04:22 PM (Kc+Vz)

Precisely. You did not make yourself alive. You do not get to make yourself dead. The idea that people have more insight into life than God is.... stupid.
Posted by: tcn in AK at February 18, 2026 04:26 PM (I40wl)

Suicide is one thing. You own your body and soul, you can talk that out after you die. Assisted suicide is just murder.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2026 04:29 PM (8avO+)

299 Are we getting another Thread before Ace goes to get his Prescription for Truvada updated?

Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2026 04:29 PM (1Udfd)

300 I just turned 60. Been hanging around here since about 2006.

Jeepers. I need a hobby.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

63. 2008.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 18, 2026 04:29 PM (wkRuV)

301 >>>No idea if that term is still in use, but this is pretty much a get-out-of-life-free card for anybody north of (and probably including) Missouri.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

SAD.
Seasonal Affective Disorder, aka, lack of sunshine.

can confirm it applies to Missouri -- grew up in Texas, never experienced it until I moved to Missouri. -- sun goes down early this time of year

Posted by: brak at February 18, 2026 04:30 PM (jGJov)

302 299 Are we getting another Thread before Ace goes to get his Prescription for Truvada updated?
Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2026 04:29 PM (1Udfd)

Ouch!

Posted by: tubal at February 18, 2026 04:30 PM (pDt9x)

303 299 Are we getting another Thread before Ace goes to get his Prescription for Truvada updated?
Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2026 04:29 PM (1Udfd)

How's his viral load? You haven't mentioned contracting HIV so it must be undetectable at this point.

Posted by: Vespa drive-by at February 18, 2026 04:30 PM (TbWk/)

304 SAD.
Seasonal Affective Disorder, aka, lack of sunshine.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 18, 2026 04:27 PM (wkRuV)

Jesus Christ. I lived in Chicago for 13 years or so. Getting sick of Shit weather and cold isn't a Disorder. It's normal life.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2026 04:30 PM (8avO+)

305 I bet the Canadian Covid lockdowns made many people sad.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 18, 2026 04:31 PM (abIsI)

306 a routine yearly doctor's appointment

Don't let him talk you into the "Bloggers Special"!

Posted by: DaveA at February 18, 2026 04:31 PM (FhXTo)

307 60. Throbbing gif. LGF.2004 And over here shortly after.

Posted by: High fidelity at February 18, 2026 04:32 PM (Pk3kd)

308 Something something Ewok deworming anal gland expressing.

Posted by: tubal at February 18, 2026 04:32 PM (pDt9x)

309 I just turned 60. Been hanging around here since about 2006.

Jeepers. I need a hobby.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 18, 2026 04:28 PM (PSEDc)

That IS a hobby

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2026 04:32 PM (8avO+)

310 A new use for AI !

Posted by: Canada at February 18, 2026 04:32 PM (abIsI)

311 Canadians need to take more Vitamin D during their six month winters.

So, I just went to verify that D is over the counter in Canada (assumed it was, but never assume about Canada) and got this AI response:

“Vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) is a crucial supplement for Canadians, especially from October to March due to limited sun exposure, aiding in immune function and bone health. Health Canada recommends daily supplementation for most, particularly during winter, with popular brands including Jamieson, Webber Naturals, and Kirkland Signature.”

So you can self-medicate with Jamieson or Jameson. Or the truly healing power of “and”.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 18, 2026 04:33 PM (EXyHK)

312 There aren't enough of them to matter. This is just the nose in the door of killing live births on the regular.

Fun fact: Nigeria had more births this year than Europe + Russia combined (and twice as many as the United States).

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 18, 2026 04:33 PM (n1OCj)

313 Could a person request death by Sydney Sweeney?
Posted by: Maj. Healey
......

I don't think she's a doctor.

Posted by: wth at February 18, 2026 04:33 PM (UjdFS)

314 >> I lived in Chicago for 13 years or so. Getting sick of Shit weather and cold isn't a Disorder. It's normal life.

I get it in Summer. Too much nice weather.

Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2026 04:33 PM (1Udfd)

315 Nood. Hah-vaad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 18, 2026 04:33 PM (ExV1e)

316 I Always try to get at least 15 min direct sun in December and January, it makes a big difference in how annoying I am to Mrs. F.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 18, 2026 04:34 PM (RIvkX)

317 >>Posted by: tubal at February 18, 2026 04:32 PM (pDt9x)

I was going to go with that, but figured the Prep Med would be every bit as funny coming from me.

Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2026 04:34 PM (1Udfd)

318 316 I Always try to get at least 15 min direct sun in December and January, it makes a big difference in how annoying I am to Mrs. F.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 18, 2026 04:34 PM (RIvkX)

; )

Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 04:34 PM (+YA9H)

319 >> I lived in Chicago for 13 years or so. Getting sick of Shit weather and cold isn't a Disorder. It's normal life.

I get it in Summer. Too much nice weather.
Posted by: garrett at February 18, 2026 04:33 PM (1Udfd)

I love the heat even though I broil up like a lobster if I get any sun.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2026 04:34 PM (8avO+)

320 Getting sick of Shit weather and cold isn't a Disorder. It's normal life.

There are times, and this is one, when I really wish Dr. Thomas Szasz hadn’t gone quite so far off the deep end on the non-existence of psychological disorders. Because he made some very good points about exactly this back when it could have been more easily fought.

Unable or unwilling to bear the inexorable tragedies of the human condition, people now seek solace in the utopian claims of psychiatry concerning the causes and cures of everything “bad” the human heart is heir to.—Thomas Szasz, Omni, March, 1980.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 18, 2026 04:36 PM (EXyHK)

321 Throbbing gif. LGF.2004 And over here shortly after.
Posted by: High fidelity at February 18, 2026 04:32 PM (Pk3kd)

About the same time period here, after being kicked off of Chuckle's bicycle seat. Oh, wait....

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyseat at February 18, 2026 04:36 PM (5xuJ/)

322 Probably just what you think. Denmark was caught doing various tricks to reduce the Inuit native population in Greenland up to the 1970s-1980s
Posted by: Oldcat at February 18, 2026 04:25 PM

Investigators found the forced birth control continued into the '90s.

Norway officially stopped their sterilization of the Saami in 1977, which was a very big deal because the government had a eugenics policy against them since the '40s or so.

I like to throw that in the face of the Danes and the Norwegians who try the "you mistreated the Native Americans in the 1900s" crap.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 18, 2026 04:39 PM (fxCK2)

323 I had a friend that did the Hemlock Society's potion. She had Crohns disease and had reached the point she had trouble knitting. But it was her call and she had no help

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 18, 2026 04:45 PM (+mUZM)

324 > I use this name because back in college I threw a drug dealer out of the (open) window of my dormitory
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I use this name because I usually wear dark clothing

Posted by: Don Black: Heads up- I might be joking at February 18, 2026 04:55 PM (ZxPkt)

325 Leftist health care practitioners with the authority to kill, who want to save the planet by cancelling as many carbon footprints as possible. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Wofus at February 18, 2026 04:57 PM (CNa+A)

326 307 60. Throbbing gif. LGF.2004 And over here shortly after.
Posted by: High fidelity at February 18, 2026 04:32 PM (Pk3kd)

#metoo

Posted by: m at February 18, 2026 05:01 PM (+YA9H)

327 Type I diabetes (T1D) is very manageable. (Thanks, Defenestratus) My T1D kid is in college, was a podium finisher in HS discus, state finalist in shotput, ran relays, and competed internationally in dance competitions.

Yes, the CGM and closed-loop insulin pump makes a huge difference in quality of life. Sometimes though, she has to go old school with the finger-prick and syringe when there are shortages of the advanced electronics, but it's merely inconvenient, not EOL-worthy.

Posted by: DrSandman at February 18, 2026 05:10 PM (+/Pgq)

328 Whoopie Goldberg said that Trump put her name in the Epstein Files to make her look like Dumbass Woman of Color compared to Kami Harris

Goldberg was not available for further comment on Trump's Crime.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at February 18, 2026 05:24 PM (EPApu)

329 272 269 There are people (aside from me) under 60 on this site?
****

My Lawn, get ... wait, I don't have a lawn.

Posted by: clarence at February 18, 2026 05:33 PM (RU/0c)

330 Time has come for those Health Care types up in Canada to Pay the Piper he has doubled his bill

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 18, 2026 06:18 PM (wGqjj)

331 Those fookin' Canucks can't crow about their superiority to Americans any more...

Posted by: Mr. Matamoros at February 18, 2026 06:55 PM (RgM/c)

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