Canadian Media Celebrates After 47-Year-Old Disability Rights Advocate Euthanized by Government

Original Article By Frank Bergman

Canada’s state broadcaster is once again under fire for glorifying the nation’s spiraling euthanasia regime, this time celebrating after the government euthanized Alberta athlete and disability rights advocate Brian McPherson.

McPherson was killed by lethal injection at just 47 years old.

He was euthanized under Canada’s taxpayer-funded Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), which is part of the nation’s socialized healthcare system.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) framed his death in strikingly upbeat language, writing that “McPherson died by Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), after battling several health complications.”

Predictably, the broadcaster presented MAiD as compassionate healthcare rather than what it is: Canada’s government-endorsed expansion of “assisted suicide” into nearly every corner of public life.

CBC even chose to spotlight a quote from McPherson’s mother that reinforces the government’s narrative.

“Over the last five years, he was, his body was shutting down,” Judy McPherson told the CBC.

“He came to the house and he explained to his dad, annoyed that he was running out of steam.

“As his mom and dad, you could see things were getting worse and worse.

“But I have to be very honest, it was the most peaceful way for him to go to sleep.”

For disability rights advocates, who have spent years warning that Canada is pressuring vulnerable people into euthanasia, this is exactly the problem.

A man who spent his life inspiring others with disabilities is now being used to promote a narrative they have fought “valiantly — even desperately — against.”

UN Rebuked Canada Over Its Euthanasia Expansion, CBC Barely Mentioned It

Earlier this year, Inclusion Canada, the country’s top disability rights organization, took the Liberal government to the United Nations (UN) over its MAiD expansion.

The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities issued a damning ruling, calling on Canada to repeal Track 2 MAiD and halt the planned expansion to those with mental illness.

“The UN is clear that our country must do better in upholding the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities,” Krista Carr, CEO of Inclusion Canada, said.

“A top priority is Track 2 MAiD – a real and dangerous threat to the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. It must be repealed.”

Despite the severity of the international condemnation, CBC covered the UN rebuke only once, while publishing dozens of articles casting euthanasia in a glowing, personalized, and sympathetic light that tracks perfectly with the messaging of activist groups like Dying with Dignity.

Death Canada Now Calls “Compassion”

CBC’s obituary highlights McPherson’s impressive achievements:

  • a World Cup–winning para-bobsledder

  • a nationally ranked sledge hockey player

  • a star of CBC’s Push, which chronicled friends “navigating their lives in wheelchairs”

  • a fierce advocate for the disabled community

  • an athlete who overcame a devastating spinal injury at age 19

His story was one of grit, perseverance, and hope, a living reminder that disability does not mean despair.

But the way Canada now frames his death tells a different story.

It signals to other struggling people with disabilities that death is not only an option but a respectable, peaceful “solution.”

Yet, that is exactly what disability advocates have warned is happening.

Sanitization of Suicide

The most disturbing line in CBC’s coverage is the one the state broadcaster deliberately chose to highlight:

“It was the most peaceful way for him to go to sleep.”

That is not journalism. It’s marketing.

A state-funded broadcaster is presenting assisted suicide as serene, gentle, even desirable, softening the language to the point where the public no longer sees MAiD as taking a life, but as “going to sleep.”

As George Orwell warned:

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.”

McPherson’s life inspired countless people.

His death, and the way CBC framed it, sends a devastating message to others fighting to survive:

That hope is optional, but euthanasia is always available.