Hi JMG, Things are getting fairly weird and tense on my tiny island. I have lived here for 12 years and it has always been bitterly divided about something. Now, I seem to be one of the targets for the bitter feelings. I write a weekly column for our local magazine and the oddest thing is that I wrote a couple of articles against Medically Assisted Death, MAID.
MAID started out as only for terminally ill people and I agree with that. However, it has been extended to everyone but the mentally ill and children who the feds call, "mature minors," and hope to extend MAID benefits to them too. Next year, the government is going to offer it to mentally ill people. At the moment, MAID is being given out to disabled people because they are too poor on their government disability pensions to live so they are helped to die rather than given a livable pension. People flipped out over that and said what I wrote was hate speech.
One old friend even asked me what my article was about. I explained and she said, "They are too poor to live. So what?" My friend is 94 and wishes to die as she is going blind but I was stunned by her lack of empathy and by the hostility of the community in general.
The last couple of afternoons, I have been woken from my nap by a woman's voice, very shrill and angry talking to me about a court case and something else unpleasant this afternoon. Is this an egregor? The embodiment of the vicious feelings in the village? Some sort of activist ghost? It doesn't happen at night, I guess due to the SOP I do. Would you recommend an additional SOP before my nap?
What do you make of the public support for killing poor and inconvenient Canadians?
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Date: 2022-07-18 06:00 am (UTC)Things are getting fairly weird and tense on my tiny island. I have lived here for 12 years and it has always been bitterly divided about something. Now, I seem to be one of the targets for the bitter feelings. I write a weekly column for our local magazine and the oddest thing is that I wrote a couple of articles against Medically Assisted Death, MAID.
MAID started out as only for terminally ill people and I agree with that. However, it has been extended to everyone but the mentally ill and children who the feds call, "mature minors," and hope to extend MAID benefits to them too. Next year, the government is going to offer it to mentally ill people. At the moment, MAID is being given out to disabled people because they are too poor on their government disability pensions to live so they are helped to die rather than given a livable pension. People flipped out over that and said what I wrote was hate speech.
One old friend even asked me what my article was about. I explained and she said, "They are too poor to live. So what?" My friend is 94 and wishes to die as she is going blind but I was stunned by her lack of empathy and by the hostility of the community in general.
The last couple of afternoons, I have been woken from my nap by a woman's voice, very shrill and angry talking to me about a court case and something else unpleasant this afternoon. Is this an egregor? The embodiment of the vicious feelings in the village? Some sort of activist ghost? It doesn't happen at night, I guess due to the SOP I do. Would you recommend an additional SOP before my nap?
What do you make of the public support for killing poor and inconvenient Canadians?
Maxine