{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Fasti News","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.fastinews.com\/iNWS","title":"'Untold damage': Global assisted suicide movement targets children - Fasti News","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"v7ztPWSYdI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastinews.com\/iNWS\/untold-damage-global-assisted-suicide-movement-targets-children\/\">&#8216;Untold damage&#8217;: Global assisted suicide movement targets children<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fastinews.com\/iNWS\/untold-damage-global-assisted-suicide-movement-targets-children\/embed\/#?secret=v7ztPWSYdI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;&#8216;Untold damage&#8217;: Global assisted suicide movement targets children&#8221; &#8212; Fasti News\" data-secret=\"v7ztPWSYdI\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/www.fastinews.com\/iNWS\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n\/* ]]> *\/\n<\/script>\n","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.fastinews.com\/iNWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/markus-schouten-5.jpg","thumbnail_width":931,"thumbnail_height":523,"description":"In the spring of 2022, Canadian teenager Markus Schouten&rsquo;s dying wish was that no child should be forced to choose between life and death. Markus had just learned he was about to die. His oncologist broke the news to him and his family on the eighth floor cancer ward at British Columbia Children's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. They held each other, weeping. Weeks later, lying on his family&rsquo;s living room sofa, Markus dictated a letter to the Canadian Parliament&rsquo;s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying, established to set guidelines on a federal law that allowed \"assisted suicide\" in Canada in 2016. Markus opposed lobbying efforts to expand the law to children under the age of 18. &lsquo;LOVE YOU FOREVER&rsquo; AUTHOR MAY SOON DIE BY ASSISTED SUICIDE, PRO-LIFE GROUPS CALL DECISION &lsquo;HEARTBREAKING&rsquo; \"That&rsquo;s because life is worth living and we should always work to alleviate suffering without eliminating the sufferer,\" read the final lette.."}