Medicalization and Death
“White coats can make acceptable what brown shirts can’t.” From lethal injections to Canada’s MAID regime, dressing death up as medicine sanitizes killing and explains away our fallen nature.
Three events recently converged: the mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s trial for murdering her three children; Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute Christa Pike; and a book I’ve been reading, Unravelling MAiD in Canada. They have one common thread: the medicalization of death.
Lindsay Clancy’s strangulation of her children was blamed on a medical condition: postpartum psychosis. Christa Pike’s…
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