The National Post reports that Jennyfer Hatch, the 37-year-old woman who became a poster girl for assisted suicide in a recent Canadian short film, embraced suicide only after failing to secure proper health care. Simons, a Canadian clothes retailer, released a video, All Is Beauty, romanticizing her death. Really, she wanted to live.
CTV News confirmed that Hatch was the same woman who had spoken to it anonymously last summer “about her failed attempts to find proper treatment for Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare and painful condition in which patients suffer from excessively fragile skin and connective tissues.” In June, Hatch told CTV: “I thought, ‘Goodness, I feel like I’m falling through the cracks so if I’m not able to access health care am I then able to access death care?’ And that’s what led me to look into MAID and I applied last year.”
Unfortunately, if you give people the choice between a difficult life and an easy death, they’ll be tempted to pick the latter. And, what’s more, if you give the state the choice between an expensive life or a cheap death, it’ll likely pick the latter. There is nothing remotely “beautiful” about that. It’s barbaric.