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Victoria Secret model chronicles grandmother’s last days after she chose to be euthanized in Canada

May 23, 2023 | | Print Article

A Victoria’s Secret model chronicled her farewell visit to her grandmother in Canada as the elderly woman prepared to join the thousands utilizing the nation’s continually expanding euthanasia law.

Texas-based Ali Tate Cutler, the first plus-sized model for Victoria’s Secret, took to social media recently to share videos with her tens of thousands of followers seemingly promoting the practice of assisted suicide after her “mind changed” by her grandmother’s reasons.

Describing herself as a “Self Love Coach” and “Aesthetic Avatar,” Tate Cutler first shared a video smiling and posing with her Bubbie with the overlay, “My grandmother has chosen Euthanasia for her terminal diagnosis so this is the last time I can take her out for dinner.”

The post was captioned, “I have had many emotions this week but I’ve been focused on being a part of a memorable week for Bubbie. A lot of people have had questions about Euthanasia, including myself, so if you have any drop them below and I’ll try to get them answered.”

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Days after, the model followed through and shared a brief video interviewing her grandmother where the pair talked up the positive side of the decision.

“What are your thoughts as you like move closer to the date?” she asked, to which her Bubbie responded, “It’s like the light at the end of the tunnel.”

When Tate Cutler asked what the final day would entail, the grandmother explained, “I know that they set an appointment. Initial injection, putting you to sleep. A big pain is the prick in the hand to provide for the little valves. And then once you are in a deep sleep there are two other injections you get, and at that point, you don’t know. It’s painless.”

The grandmother also said she was “Looking forward to it, just putting an end to being dependent. No control.”

The second post was captioned, “I will treasure this conversation forever. [To be honest], I was very resistant to euthanasia before she told me her decision. It felt unethical to me. But I have had my mind changed after hearing her reasons and I’m so happy that she has the option available in Canada. How to live well and die well are codes, and she has given me knowledge on both.”

As previously reported, the already controversial law in Canada which was originally intended to make assisted suicide an option for those with terminal illnesses or a disability causing them “unbearable physical or mental suffering” with death in the “reasonably foreseeable” future had been amended to allow those without terminal illness, and still others wanted the option to be made available to children.

Canada’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) released their recommendation in February suggesting that “mature” minors could choose suicide without parental consent and include “youth in the child welfare system.”

Initially, only around 1,000 Canadians chose assisted suicide, but that number has since risen to as many as 10,000 in 2021. While many of her followers praised Tate Cutler for sharing the story and her grandmother’s responses, elsewhere reactions were far from positive.

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh commented on the danger posed by influencers in impacting the mindset of swaths of society through social media and wrote, “We now have Instagram influencers making inspirational videos about euthanasia. ‘Are you excited?’ she asks her grandmother who is about to be put down.”

“We need to stop using words like ‘Orwellian’ to describe our culture. It makes things seems better than they really are,” he added.

 

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