Fox News, CNN, and others have reported about a “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID) case in Ontario, brought by Brigitte Kranendonk, a young woman who cared for her grandmother Brigitte Stegemann, in a nursing home until Mrs. Stegemann was killed by lethal injection on July 10th, despite previously refusing MAID. And despite Ms. Kranendonk holding her grandmother’s general power of attorney and concurring with her grandmother (“Oma”) refusing the euthanasia.
She repeated stated, “I don’t want the death shot,” and pulled out IVs multiple times fearing that the reason the IV was being installed was to administer the lethal injection. On the day of her death, the attending doctor ordered a nurse to inject Oma, despite not receiving an answer from the 83-year-old when he asked if it was “okay to proceed.” The granddaughter reports (confirmed by others) that English was not Oma’s first language, that she was very hard of hearing, and was in essence railroaded or ignored before being killed.
There is some evidence that the nursing home was complicit, “needing the bed” for a large backlog of patient requests. There are many other questions being asked and (for now) being unanswered or giving answers that show the seriousness of the situation.
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“Easier and more convenient”
As we see “Awfully Ignorant” (seriously, how can AI really stand for “Artificial Intelligence” with a straight face?) exploding across the States and the planet, things continue to get strange.
The entire AI craziness is, we believe, directly tied to the entire Data Center controversy. Whether the opposition to massive data centers is being pushed (or at least triggered) by the CCP (or Russia, or the Iranians, or “just” Soros and Bill Gates) or is the latest tactic by the Woke, environists, and Luddites, it is clearly now a significant issue in thousands of communities. As well as an incredible display of cognitive or mental dissonance. You use AI, you use your smart phone, you spend all your time on social media and streaming movies and television series, but you are totally against the infrastructure and consumption of power and water necessary to furnish you those wonderful things.
Of course, this is again (as with so many things) not new. Here is a great example of how people can completely miss the obvious and behave stupidly. It applies to government, private business, and every other part of society.
Remember that today, there are virtually no privately-run passenger railroads. (And those that are private are pretty much tourist lines that really don’t go anyplace for real, like the Black Hills’ beloved 1880 Train or the Silverton & Durango in the Four Corners.)
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