Canadian had bedsores and Canada euthanized him

Saint-Jérôme, Québec -- Normand Meunier, 66, was euthanized a week ago due to bedsores, or decubitus ulcers, in medical terms. Generally speaking, people are not euthanized for such medical events, but hey, this was in Canada, eh. 

The program they use to justify euthanasia is known as Medical Assistance In Dying, or MAID.

Now there's a coroner's inquest into the death of Meunier.

On May 13, Leora Schertzer reported for the Montreal Gazette that:

Geneviève Paradis, a nurse who cared for Normand Meunier during his time in the ICU, testified Monday that she did not check Meunier’s bedsores, noting that the hospital was short staffed. Another nurse, Rachel Lanthier, testified she thought one bedsore was significant, but did not see any records of it in Meunier’s hospital file to make a comparison and track the wound’s growth.

Patrick Martin-Ménard, the lawyer representing Meunier's family explained in an interview: “The crumbling health-care system allowed the pressure wounds to reach a point at which there was no possible recovery. And that in itself, I find it to be extremely shocking,” Martin-Ménard said.

Schertzer explained the extent of Meunier’s bed sores.

Meunier was brought to the ER for a respiratory issue in January 2024 and was left on a stretcher for 96 hours. When he was admitted to the hospital, he had three bedsores that were at risk of worsening without proper care. By the time he chose to end his life two months later with MAID, the wounds spanned nearly the entire width of his buttocks, exposing his internal organs.

The Canadian Press reported on May 15 that Sylvie Brosseau, Meunier’s wife, advocated for his care but was ignored:

Brosseau says Meunier loved the outdoors and had many dreams and plans despite being quadriplegic.

All that changed after he was left on a stretcher at the St-Jérôme hospital for 96 hours and developed a severe pressure sore that never healed.

Brosseau says she repeatedly asked for Meunier to be given a special therapeutic mattress that prevents sores, but she says she felt ignored by hospital staff.Canadia.   

Meunier requested medical assistance in dying two months after developing the sore and died March 29, 2024.

Meunier’s lawyer, Patrick Martin-Ménard, said:

"Although it’s tragic Meunier had to turn to MAID because of Quebec’s crumbling health-care system, the option at least let him die with dignity."

Martin-Ménard is missing the dirty reality that euthanasia (MAID) is used to cover up the deteriorating health-care system. Th death of Normand Meunier is one of many tragic euthanasia deaths. 

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It isn't that this poor man could at least "die with dignity," it's that he was driven to die by euthanasia and this adds to the tragedy.

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Hillary's maid had illegal access to secrets

It sounds like an SNL skit rather than something that actually happened in real life--nobody is that stupid or careless. 

Unless we're talking about then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

When she was secretary of state Clinton routinely had her maid print out sensitive and classified government emails and documents for her from her house in Washington D.C., emails and FBI memos show.

Her maid! 

Marina Santos might be a lovely lady but she lacked a security clearance at any level to handle such sensitive material. But she was called on so often that she may know more than the FBI about state secrets and E-mailgate.

Hillary Clinton expected the Filipino immigrant to handle state secrets in addition to her duties as housekeeper of Whitehaven, the name of her DC residence with obvious racist implications in the name if she had been a Republican. 

Clinton pays as much attention to national security matters as a hurricane does to leaving things tidy.

The way it worked was: Hillary would receive highly sensitive emails from top aides at the State Department and then request that the aides, in turn, forward those messages and attachments to Santos so that she could print them out at the home.

Santos printed out confidential memos and "call sheets" (background information and talking points for Hillary in advance of a phone call with a foreign head of state) and drafts of her speeches, among other things.

Clinton emailed Huma Weiner Abedin, her top aide, to "Pls ask Marina to print for me in am" a redacted 2011 message marked sensitive but unclassified.

But Marina did classified material too. In a classified 2012 email regarding the new president of Malawi, another Clinton top aide, Monica Hanley, told Clinton, "We can ask Marina to print this."

In an April 2012 classified email to Clinton from Hanley was the subject line: "Revisions to the Iran points." The text reads, "Marina is trying to print for you."

Marina Santos also had access to a highly secure room known as SCIF, or sensitive compartmented information facility. This was set up by diplomatic security agents at the Whitehaven residence, according to FBI notes from an Abedin interview.

From within the SCIF, Santos "collected documents from the secure facsimile machine for Clinton," the FBI notes revealed. This same fax machine periodically received the Presidential Daily Brief--a top-secret document prepared by the CIA and other US intelligence groups.

I can see Saturday Night Live doing the skit where Marina is handed the "Nuclear Football" by Obama and asked to clean it and give it back to him later.

But Clinton was never asked by the FBI over the year it sort of investigated her, to turn over the iMac Santos used to receive the emails, or the printer she used to do the printouts. And we later discovered that although Clinton destroyed 33,000 emails, copies in other locations still exist.

Maybe the FBI's latest policy is: "What we don't see won't hurt the country."

The more obvious truth is that the top brass at the Justice Department allegedly blocked the FBI from obtaining search warrants to collect the evidence that would implicate the Clintons.




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