Debbie Fisher is advising New Yorkers to prepare their elderly relatives ahead of the state legalizing Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) this summer.

The Canadian’s elderly mother, Rita Busby, came dangerously close to being euthanized over a single sentence.

Her mom, who was active and independent in spite of her 93 years, ended up in the hospital after accidentally overdosing on a drug she was prescribed. Drowsy and not thinking straight, Busby had made an offhand comment to one of the nurses that she “wanted to die.” Hospital workers took her at her word.

Next, a Canadian government psychologist pulled Fisher aside to let her know they were preparing to euthanize her mother, a devout Catholic and lifelong Blue Jays fan.

“I was terrified. I couldn’t believe what was happening. They talked to me like I was putting a dog down,” Fisher, 71, told me from her home in Ontario, Canada.

Luckily Fisher and her mom were prepared, as Busby had signed over Power of Attorney to her daughter. Now she and others in Canada — which legalized PAS a decade ago — are warning the Empire State of the “slippery slope” into a culture of coercive death which may be headed their way.

“My mom wanted to die, she didn’t want to be killed!” Fisher said. “If I hadn’t been there, and she hadn’t signed over Power of Attorney, who knows what would have happened”

It was a narrow escape and Rita lived for six more months — during that time she went bowling and to baseball games, attended a family reunion and mended strained relationships before dying naturally at home in 2019.

“People don’t understand there’s a lot of things that go on behind the scenes [in hospitals] when there’s no one there to protect them,” said Fisher.

In the last ten years, an estimated 100,000 Canadians have been euthanized by their government — about one in 20 deaths in the country in 2024 alone.

“You just opened Pandora’s Box and the slippery slope will get very steep very fast,” Heather Hancock, 58, of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and who suffers from cerebral palsy, told me.

“This is eugenics and this is genocide against the [disadvantaged],” she claimed.

Hancock is no stranger to death-pushers. She’s lost count of the number of times Canadian doctors have tried to coerce her into killing herself, she claimed, through Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAiD —the title given to their PAS program.

During one hospital visit, “the nurse on my ward looked at me and said, ‘You really should consider MAiD. You’re not living. You’re just existing,” she recalled.

She now carries a laminated “do not euthanize” card wherever she goes.

Hancock warned certain classes of New Yorkers may have to be vigilant going into heath care facilities.

“Keep your ears and eyes open, especially if you have a disability or mental illness or are in any way considered a disadvantaged or non-contributing member of society. Those are the people that are targeted,” she said.

“[PAS] is an effective way to get rid of those they deem draining the healthcare system. It’s not compassionate.”

Major US medical groups strongly condemn PAS, including the American Medical Association, which warns in its code of ethics, “Physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks.”

Fourteen additional states are considering legalizing PAS this year.

So far, no state has legalized euthanasia — the form of assisted suicide where a medical professional administers the lethal agent rather than being prescribed a deadly drug the patient takes on their own.

Between 30 and 50 percent of patients prescribed the killing concoction don’t end up taking it, studies show, whereas booking a euthanasia appointment has a much higher kill rate. Virtually all assisted suicides in Canada are now carried out by euthanasia.

“It makes it feel more like a medical act. People feel more obligated to it because, of course, the doctor has to schedule it,” Alex Schadenberg, executive director of Canada’s Euthanasia Prevention Network, an advocacy group, told me.

Canada, which has a socialized medical system, will formally legalize euthanasia for mental health as the sole underlying condition in 2027, if legal challenges against the expansion are unsuccessful.

“It could be really touchy for someone in New York if they don’t have the gold standard in health insurance and they develop some kind of disability,” said Schadenberg.

“In Canada we have serious funding problems in our healthcare system, hospitals are running deficits. They would never say it to you, but clearly dead people don’t cost money.”

“You’ve had cases of people who are homeless asking to be approved for euthanasia,” he added, which was reported on in 2024.

Health Canada told me: “Canada’s medical assistance in dying law seeks to respect personal autonomy for those seeking access to MAID, while at the same time protecting vulnerable people and the equality rights of all Canadians. MAID is a complex and deeply personal issue.

“The Government of Canada is committed to ensuring our laws reflect Canadians’ needs, protect those who may be vulnerable, and support autonomy and freedom of choice.”

Studies show overall suicide rates increase when PAS becomes legalized, going up by 10.5 percent in Canada since PAS was broadened in 2021.

In Europe the numbers are more staggering: suicides increased by 18.5 percent — and raised by nearly 40 percent in women — among nine countries where PAS is permitted, according to a 2022 study.

One case in Spain caught the attention of the White House this month, which has demanded a probe into the euthanization of 25-year-old gang rape victim Noelia Castillo, who had been confined to a wheelchair since 2022 when she attempted suicide by jumping from a fifth-floor building.

“[PAS] demystifies the issue of suicide. It takes away the whole concept that suicide is not the right way to go,” said Schadenberg.

New York’s law, set to take effect on August 4, requires patients must be a New York resident, at least 18 years old, mentally capable of making health decisions, and diagnosed with a terminal illness with six months or less to live.

There is a mandatory five-day waiting period between the time a suicide drug is prescribed and when it can be filled. The program is overseen by the Department of Health.

In 2021, Canada removed its mandatory ten-day waiting period and now desperate Canadians can get same-day suicides.

Such was the case when an 80-year-old Ontario woman recovering from heart surgery (known as “Mrs. B” in an official report) requested palliative care and initially declined MAiD due to her religious beliefs. However, her husband — experiencing caregiver burnout —contacted a MAiD referral service the same day; after two quick assessments, a third provider approved her, and she was euthanized later that evening, according to the report.

States tend to follow Canada’s trend of loosening restrictions over time — but so far not to the same extremes.

Each state where PAS is legal reports increasing usage over time. Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Hawaii and Colorado have also removed residency requirements, resulting in grisly “death tourism,” while California was the first to shorten mandatory waiting times.

Liberal state California has overseen the most PAS deaths in the US with 4,287 between 2016 and 2023, with Oregon a close second.

“It changes medicine,” said Schadenberg. “People have to recognize the importance of being there with their loved ones in the hospital. In our culture, there are too many people going through difficult health conditions alone and that actually breeds the death idea.”

PAS also transforms the death industry. Entrepreneurial New Yorkers could soon follow the lead of Canadian funeral homes offering one-stop MAiD services.

In London, Ontario, A. Millard George Funeral Home converted a former casket showroom into a “Compassion Suite” where patients can die surrounded by family. Quebec’s Complexe Funéraire du Haut-Richelieu similarly provides a dedicated space for the procedure, allowing loved ones to hand off the body immediately afterward.

Advocates for PAS argue it’s about bodily autonomy, dignity and independence.

“For New Yorkers nearing the end of life, what matters most is having access to the full spectrum of end‑of‑life care,” Francesca Triest, New York-New Jersey Campaign Manager for Compassion & Choices, which lobbied strongly for New York’s law, said.

“The Medical Aid in Dying Act reinforces a fundamental principle: every individual deserves compassion and the autonomy to make personal decisions about their own body and their care at life’s end.”

But Fisher said that sends the wrong message to everyone else. “If it’s legal, it must be OK. That’s the mindset they’re in,” she said.

Adding: “My body, my choice and I’m just going to go to sleep and all my problems go away. But the families are left behind.

“It’s like a holocaust. It serves no purpose.”

A version of this article originally appeared in the New York Post on April 8, 2026.

Two of the eight ‘informants’ paid millions by the Southern Poverty Law Center can be un-hooded as a suburban mom from Georgia and a one-legged “true believer” from Alabama.

One of the SPLC’s so-called informants was an Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan organization, who remained a committed racist until his death in 2023 aged 50.

Bradley Scott Jenkins was high-up enough in the organization to call himself the leader of the “true Klan” and never displayed any signs of reform or subverting the KKK’s message — the stated aim of the SPLC’s ‘informant’ program — his 24-year-old son, who asked not to be named, told me.

“When I went to the rallies with him as a kid, I never saw anything that made me think he wasn’t a true believer,” the son said of his father, who lost his left leg due to medical complications.

Jenkins, who died an unemployed father-of-three at 50, was one of the ‘informants’ referred to as “F-unknown” in the indictment against the SPLC. The UKA is believed to continue with a new leader.

He was seemingly happy to take the nonprofit’s money while revitalizing the UKA, a once-defunct Alabama-based KKK splinter group, described on the SPLC’s website as a “millennial reboot of what was once a serious domestic threat.” In the 60s UKA had been responsible for many racist attacks and “the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., which resulted in the deaths of four little girls in 1963.”

In a 2012 interview, Jenkins claimed he was against violence.

“We are weeding out the people who only joined the Ku Klux Klan to participate in violence. If that’s what they want, they have no place here. We are a family organization,” he told Vice.com

Alabama-based SPLC has been charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering conspiracy for allegedly engaging “in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel announced on April 21.

Patel charged that far from using spies to dismantle the hate groups, the SPLC gave them over $3 million to keep promoting their ideologies, so they would have something to point to and seek donors to fight against. The nonprofit has amassed some $800 million to do so, its charity forms show.

“The SPLC was … manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” Blanche said at a press conference.

“There’s no information that we have that suggests that the money that they were paying to these informants and these members of these organizations, they then turned around and shared what they learned with law enforcement,” he told Fox News on April 21.

The son — who is not affiliated with the KKK or UKA — added he had suspicions his father could have been an informant, recalling how he one went with him to meet an FBI agent approximately 15 years ago.

“I always thought he was working with someone. I thought maybe he got into trouble and was threatened by [law enforcement] to become an informant to avoid jail or something,” he added.

He also doubted Jenkins had profited much from the SPLC. “He never had a new vehicle or anything like that. I guess he went out to eat more than my mother,” he said.

A second person IDed in the indictment, also known an “F-unknown,” is believed to be a suburban Georgia mom named April Chambers.

In 2012, Chambers, a member of the KKK along with her Exalted Cyclops hubby Harley Henson, sued the state of Georgia over their KKK group’s attempt to join the state’s “Adopt-A-Highway” program.

While that lawsuit was ongoing, the indictment alleges Chambers was paid in excess of $3,500 by the SPLC. It’s unclear how that money would help fight racism.

The KKK claimed in their lawsuit they just wanted to pick up litter on the highway and “keep the mountains beautiful” and the issue went all the way to the Georgia Supreme Court, before the adopt-a-highway program was shut down.

Chambers — who also goes by her married name, Henson — now appears to run 1776 Cleaners, a home cleaning and handyman service in Georgia. She did not respond to requests for comment and it is unknown if she is still a member of the KKK.

Since the indictment, Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and National Socialist groups ensnared in it have been throwing accusations around about who among them was making hundreds of thousands off the lefty nonprofit, which saw its annual revenue surge from $51 million to $133 million after Charlottesville.

“This was a new one. Usually, it’s feds that are the problem. The SPLC was a curveball for me,” Burt Colucci, leader of the neo-Nazi National Social Movement (NSM), told me on learning his group had an SPLC payee among them.

One of his members, a motorcycle enthusiast identified as “F-27’ in the indictment, received over $300,000 from the SPLC.

“It’s someone I was in Iraq with and who I know very well. This person was thrown out [of NSM] several years ago,” Colucci said, stopping short of naming him.

“He was worrying about getting extra shekels [money]. I used to fight with this individual. He was a big information collector. He wanted to see people’s driver’s licenses, social security numbers.”

Another ‘informant,’ “F-30,” is described in the indictment as a National Socialist Party of America leader, “the former director of a faction of the Aryan Nations, and a former member of the Ku Klux Klan” who was secretly paid $70,000 between 2014 and 2016 and “was featured on the SPLC’s ‘Extremist File’ webpage.”

That resume matches up perfectly with the SPLC website’s Extremist File entry on National Socialist Party of America boss Paul Mullet.

When reached by phone and asked if he was F30, Mullet bluntly told me “I’m not answering any questions right now. No Comment” before hanging up.

The SPLC also had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Va., the indictment alleges, and that the group oversaw racist online posting from its sources.

Rumors continue to swirl online that ‘informant,’ “F-37” — who was paid $270,000 by the SPLC between 2015 and 2023 and helped organize the deadly Charlottesville event — was Unite The Right head Jason Kessler.

He vehemently denied he was an SPLC rat, saying he left political organizing around 2019 and has since lived a quiet life running a moving company in Virginia.

“People keep thinking that chat was some elite group of operators,” Kessler told me of a discussion group mentioned in the indictment.

“Anyone could join with a link. You had all these anonymous trolls in there. No one was a serious person.”

Many in the neo-Nazi community remain unfazed by the news.

“I’m not shocked at all about it, they’ve done that sort of thing before. They’ve been after me for years,” Jeff Schoep, the former head of the NSM who left in 2019 and has since become a reformed Nazi, preaching about the dangers of extremism, told me.

“[The SPLC] contacted me a number of times over the years but I wouldn’t talk to them because I didn’t trust the organization,” he said.

Those who felt they’ve been victims of SPLC smears are quietly gloating as the nonprofit heads to federal court.

“They use pain and suffering to raise money,” Gavin McInnes, founder of the pro-Trump men’s group The Proud Boys — a frequent SPLC target — told me

“We’ll never know if we have a Nazi problem because they added a bunch of decoys to the mix. Are we overrun with Nazis or not?” he asked.

“This caused permanent damage to the American psyche.”

A version of this article originally appeared in the New York Post on April 28, 2026.

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