By Ismael Diaz –
The day came when Jolene Van Alstine gave up. Canada’s socialized medicine pushed on her medically assisted suicide (MAiD) since they wouldn’t connect her with an endocrinologist for her treatable disease. She broke down and signed.
“She’s so broken and beaten, and she’s in pain because she’s been dealing with this, that she said, ‘OK,’” tells Glenn Beck, who heard her story and spontaneously volunteered to pay for her treatment in the United States.
A simple surgery – or endocrinology treatments – could cure her. But under Canada’s provincial socialized medicine, she needs the recommendation from an endocrinologist from her province, Saskatchewan. But no endocrinologist would take her as a new patient. Hence, weeks of no treatment turned into months turned into despair.
After eight years languishing in a system that stalled in bureaucracy, “when your life is absolutely stolen from you for eight years, and you suffer so much pain, depression and anxiety” she relented and signed for suicide under coaxing, says Miles Sundeen, her partner.
In Canada, in the name of compassion, MAiD killed 16,499 Canadians in 2024 – one in 20 deaths. It ranks behind cancer, heart disease, accidents, stroke/respiratory causes for deaths in Canada.
After her case became public and after hearing that Beck offered help, Jolene backed off of the Jan. 7 scheduled suicide. The publicity got doctors and advocates involved, and Jolene is being treated.
Jolene Van Alstine developed a serious parathyroid disorder that caused her extreme pain, nausea and vomiting. Her friends abandoned her, as did socialized medicine. In Canada, the humanitarian leftist running the government have legalized Medical Assistance in Dying as the compassionate way to give humans the dignity to leave this planet on their terms.
In reality, it gets foisted on expensive medical care cases. It gets recommended, and patients are cajoled into it to get them off the tax-supported medical care.
“How do you let a person die?” asked Beck. “How are Canadians not standing up themselves and saying that’s unacceptable?”
Glenn Beck is a conservative podcaster who funds charitable causes. He funded Tim Ballard’s operation to capture traffickers who brought kids to an island near Cartagena, at which 54 kids were freed.
