'Help Me!': Botched Euthanasia Exposes the Horrific Reality Behind 'Medical Aid in Dying'

Jonathon Van Maren : Jun 15, 2026
LifeSiteNews.com

Euthanasia advocates hate these stories because people catch an unvarnished glimpse at what is going on behind all the soothing, medicalized language: killing people.

[LifeSiteNews.com] The great victory of suicide activists has been to sanitize and medicalize the killing of human beings. We cannot use words like "suicide" or "killing"; we must instead use false, propagandistic language like "medical aid in dying" or, preferably, the official-sounding acronym "MAID." Suicide and killing still make us uncomfortable, and so the terms have been whisked carefully out of sight. (Image: Pexels)

The propaganda constantly being pumped into the public is that a death by lethal injection is not only morally acceptable, but beautiful and peaceful. Conversely, dying naturally is presented as grim, painful, and horrible both for the person who is dying and for his or her family. The CBC and other press outlets have consistently presented restrictions on euthanasia as cruel measures that force people to experience awful pain.

Occasionally, we catch glimpses of the truth. "An Ontario man groaned, grimaced and repeated 'help me' while undergoing doctor-assisted death after one of the drugs didn't produce the anticipated level of sedation, initially leaving him conscious," Sharon Kirkey reported in the National Post on June 3.

The man, referred to as Mr. D., "experienced signs of physical and psychological distress, including groaning, guarding (tensing muscles) and grimacing," and his "behavioral signs of distress escalated to repeated verbalizations, including 'help me' that continued until sedation was achieved with propofol and a comatose state was confirmed." The family's final memories of their father are traumatic.

Suddenly, it was clear that Mr. D. was not just dying—he was being killed, and the doctor was botching it. His last words, it seems, were calls to his family for help.

Another example from Kirkey: "Cases of MAID that do not proceed as planned were highlighted last week in media reports involving the 2024 death of Bradley Stewart, an Ontario man who resumed breathing after being pronounced dead by a London, Ont., family doctor and MAID provider—a traumatic experience his siblings who witnessed his mishandled death are still recovering from."... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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