More than 16,000 people chose MAID in 2024, but deaths 'stabilizing' (aka "More than 16,000 Canadians died by MAID in 2024 — 5% of all deaths in Canada: report") - " The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities earlier this year called on Canada to repeal the 2021 law that expanded MAID eligibility to people whose deaths aren’t reasonably foreseeable out of concerns that people with disabilities are seeking MAID due to “unmet needs, a systemic failure of the State party,” according to a meeting summary."
Seeking death due to loneliness — inside Canada’s new MAID figures - "one in every 20 Canadian deaths is now due to assisted suicide... Canada has likely already surpassed the Netherlands as the world capital of assisted suicide As per the new report, Canada is second only to the Netherlands in terms of the percentage of overall deaths attributable to assisted suicide. In 2023, about five per cent of Dutch deaths were due to euthanasia, just ahead of Canada’s 4.7 per cent. But as detailed below, Canada’s growth rate is way higher than the Netherlands. The Dutch took 22 years to reach five per cent, compared to just seven years for Canada... Quebec accounted for a remarkable 36.5 per cent of all Canadian MAID deaths in 2023, despite representing less than a quarter of the national population. This easily makes it the world’s most euthanasia-heavy jurisdiction. Quebec’s 5,601 MAID deaths in 2023 represented 7.2 per cent of the province’s total deaths — about one in every 14. B.C. is not far behind; MAID now represents 6.1 per cent of all deaths in that province. For the first six years of legalized MAID in Canada, the rate of deaths grew by at least 30 per cent per year. This was the fastest and most sustained growth rate of any assisted suicide regime in the world, and it utterly blew past official expectations. As recently as 2018, Health Canada is on record as estimating that MAID provisions wouldn’t exceed 2.05 per cent of total deaths — a ratio that has now more than doubled. The new report shows that 2023 was the first year in which MAID deaths didn’t soar by the usual 30 per cent — but they still grew by 15.8 per cent. These remain wild numbers by international standards. In the likes of Switzerland or Belgium, for instance, euthanasia percentages have plateaued at around two per cent of total deaths — and there are some years in which the number of euthanasia deaths actually goes down. Even at 15.8 per cent growth, Canada is still well within a streak of soaring euthanasia cases unlike anything ever seen before. When applying for MAID, patients are asked to detail all the types of suffering they’re experiencing in order to determine if their condition qualifies as something “grievous and irremediable” — and thus eligible for death. Health Canada’s report reveals that 47.1 per cent of non-terminally ill Canadians who applied for MAID reported “isolation or loneliness” as one of the causes of their suffering. This was significantly higher than the number of terminally ill applicants who said the same (21.1 per cent)... just under half of all Canadian MAID cases (terminal and non-terminal) indicate that they want an early death in part lest they become a “perceived burden on family, friends or caregivers.”... This report is the first to count “non-verbal” requests for MAID as an official request. In prior years, you actually had to fill out a form before Health Canada would record that you’d officially made a request for a premature death. But now, any “intentional and deliberate request” is counted, presumably even if it’s just a “can I have MAID?” query lobbed at the nearest hospital worker. “This approach is expected to better capture more subtle demonstrations of interest in MAID,” it reads. The report notes that this change may result in the number of “rejected” MAID applications seeming inflated. But even then, in 2023 there were 15,343 MAID provisions against 915 requests deemed ineligible. So for every 17 MAID requests, there’s one rejected application. And even a rejected application is not necessarily a barrier to obtaining MAID anyway; the Canadian system allows a patient to simply travel to a new jurisdiction and try again."
Clear proof that loneliness is deadly and kills! Obviously the cause of death was loneliness, not euthanasia. And if you don't allow lonely people to be killed, this increases the "stigma" of mental health, which needs to be normalised
Canada Leads World in Organ Donations from Euthanasia - "A study published in the December 2022 issue of the American Journal of Transplantation finds Canada leading the world in harvesting organs from those who received medical assistance in dying... A longtime opponent of any form of euthanasia, Scheidl said it reminds her of suspected organ harvesting of executed prisoners in places such as the People’s Republic of China. “I think people are concerned," she said. "I know transplant teams would want to make sure that individuals who were euthanized were not coerced.”"
Great Canadian Moose on X - "CANADA IS PROOF THE WORLD CAN BE KIND, DIVERSE, AND BREATHTAKINGLY BEAUTIFUL ALL AT ONCE…"
One third of Canadians fine with assisted suicide for homelessness - "One third of Canadians fine with prescribing assisted suicide for homelessness. Roughly the same number told a poll they were fine with approving MAID for someone whose only affliction was poverty... Starting in March 2021, Canada became one of only a handful of countries to legalize assisted suicide even in instances where a patient does not have a terminal illness. Ever since, a Canadian can be approved for MAID simply for having a “grievous and irremediable medical condition.”... 20 per cent of respondents were fine with MAID being handed out to anybody for any reason. In other words, one fifth of respondents agreed with the sentiment “medical assistance in dying should always be allowed, regardless of who requests it.” Notably, these most absolutist supporters of assisted suicide were pretty evenly distributed among age groups, regions and even political demographics... an Angus Reid Institute poll similarly found 61 per cent of Canadians favouring the country’s current MAID regime. Canadian comfort with MAID may explain why it so quickly has become more widespread and liberalized than in almost any other jurisdiction offering legalized assisted suicide. Canada is notable for its relative lack of checks on the procedure: MAID can be approved and administered by nurse practitioners whereas most countries require the approval of a physician. Canada is also experiencing a skyrocketing rate of MAID deaths well beyond anything experienced abroad."
Canadian man is denied surgery, instantly receives application for 'assisted dying' - "A Canadian man seeking surgery for a workplace-related injury was denied, while forms for requesting ‘medical assistance in dying’ were immediately granted to him. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) republished the shocking story, originally posted at Canadian veteran Kelsi Sheren’s personal blog. The man in question believed the Canadian healthcare system would offer him ‘medical assistance in dying’ (MAiD) before agreeing to surgery, and he was correct. He received the forms for MAiD immediately and was denied surgery... Unfortunately, this story is not rare. Live Action News has reported how other Canadian citizens, including veterans, have been refused government assistance for corrective surgery and equipment needed for day-to-day living, and instead have been offered assisted suicide... Veteran Mark Meincke related how a caseworker thrust the idea of assisted suicide on him. “I was asking for a completely separate service and supports for neurological injuries and [the caseworker] said, ‘Oh, just by the way, if, up the road, you have suicidal thoughts… [MAID is] better than blowing your brains out against the wall,’” Meincke said. Canadian journalist Sheila Gunn Reid followed a 2,200-page paper trail from the Veterans Affairs Ministry documenting veterans’ cases, and found that caseworkers repeatedly suggested MAiD to ailing veterans. Veteran Affairs Canada covered up the cases when they caused a scandal. “Nearly a dozen veterans experiencing acute post-traumatic stress disorder or asking for aids to daily living to deal with their service-related injuries came forward over recent years to say that their Veterans Affairs Canada case workers suggested a medically assisted death to them,” Reid reported... Sheren wrote about how this is true in Canada. “MAID was sold to the public as a lie[;] it was supposed to be a compassionate choice available to people facing unbearable, incurable suffering — never a convenient alternative to providing actual medical care. Yet, it is now dangerously obvious that it has become a shortcut for a strained healthcare system drowning under financial and staffing pressures.”"
Family of woman forced to transfer facilities for medical assistance in dying takes case to court - "The case was brought by the family of Samantha O’Neill, a woman who had to endure what her family says was a painful transfer from St. Paul’s Hospital to a hospice administered by Vancouver Coastal Health in order to receive MAID."
Family of woman forced to transfer for medical assistance in dying takes case to court : r/canadanews
Of course, left wingers want to defund any religious organisations which don't want to kill people, and others want there to be no religious hospitals. If you don't want to be forced to kill people, that's Theocracy
Full article: When Death Becomes Therapy: Canada’s Troubling Normalization of Health Care Provider Ending of Life - "Undeniably, a strikingly higher number of people die with direct health care provider involvement in Canada’s euthanasia regime, euphemistically termed “Medical Assistance in Dying” [MAiD], than under a California-style assisted suicide system. Daryl Pullman (Citation2023) rightly identifies several key reasons: the fact that in about all cases it involves a lethal injection by health care providers, rather than assisted-suicide with self-administration of medication; the law’s vague and broadly interpreted access criteria; “acquiescence and […] indifference of federal and provincial authorities, the courts, and medical associations”; and, briefly mentioned, the failure to treat ending of life as a last resort (Pullman Citation2023). Particularly the last points are worth exploring further since they are likely among the key reasons why Canada’s regime results in substantially higher percentages of euthanasia deaths even when compared to the few other liberal euthanasia regimes, and with an accumulation of reports of arguably troubling practices. These points are also connected to the law’s origin in constitutional litigation, which has had a remarkable impact on the Canadian debate and policy."
Disability & MAID: Three-in-five concerned lack of adequate care may push vulnerable to consider assisted dying
Damn religious extremists!
Canadian doctors reveal regret over euthanizing patients who were simply obese or poor - "A doctor in Ontario wrote in his patient’s report that while the man had a severe lung disease, what drove him to euthanasia was ‘mostly because he is homeless, in debt and cannot tolerate the idea of (long-term care) of any kind.’ In another case, a doctor expressed their conflict at providing euthanasia to a patient simply because she was obese and depressed. Meanwhile, an elderly woman wanted to die because she was struggling with the grief of losing her husband. An Associated Press investigation that involved obtaining internal data from the provincial government in Ontario revealed dozens of online posts by doctors on public forums. Doctors provided the AP with messages shared on the private forums for assisted dying specialists on the condition of anonymity. The messages came from doctors who both performed euthanasia and assessed people who requested it. Many said they were uncomfortable with ending the lives of non-medically vulnerable people. Others felt conflicted about providing euthanasia to people not suffering from terminal illnesses, but those experiencing grief or being obese. One Ontario doctor who spoke with the AP revealed that their patient had severe obesity and depression, saying she felt like a ‘useless body taking up space.' She had withdrawn from activities and social life and said she had ‘no purpose,' according to the doctor who reviewed her case. While she was not actively dying, doctors said euthanasia was warranted because obesity is ‘a medical condition which is indeed grievous and irremediable.’ Meanwhile, a woman in her 80s petitioned for assisted death after losing her husband, sibling, and cat in a six-week period, according to AP reporting. On top of that, she was on dialysis, an exhausting tri-weekly procedure that has someone hooked up to a blood-filtering machine for about four hours at a time. But the official who reviewed her request said it had nothing to do with a medical condition - but rather it was because of her grief. Because she had lost her support system, doctors said her suffering was permanent and thus approved her request... Alex Schadenberg, director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, says ever-more people are approved for euthanasia even when they suffer from nothing more than 'frailty' and other seemingly benign conditions... As part of its investigation, the AP obtained a copy of a classified report written by Ontario's Ministry of the Solicitor General which acknowledged past mistakes it has made implementing its expanded MAiD law. One of these 'lessons learned' as the document puts it, was a case involving a 74-year-old blind patient with high blood pressure, a history of stroke, and other health issues. The man was interested in MAiD due to his vision loss and lack of hope that it would improve. The official report identified three instances where legal safeguards were not followed: no specialist in the patient's nonterminal condition was consulted, discussions about alternatives to euthanasia were limited, and the procedure was scheduled to fit the spouse’s preferred timing. Another non-terminal patient euthanized was Rosina Kamis, 41. Ms Kamis had been facing eviction, needed a crowdfunding site to help pay for food, and was afraid that she would 'suffer alone.' She also feared being institutionalized, and saw MAID as 'the best solution for all.' She suffered from leukemia, but her condition was not terminal. She told her attorney that she was experiencing 'mental suffering,' not physical. The 2021 expansion of the law made it legal for people like her who are suffering from grievous and irremediable medical conditions but whose death is not imminent to qualify for MAiD. Ms Kamis was approved for MAiD and chose to die on September 26, 2021, the date of her ex-husband's birthday. She passed away in her basement apartment after a doctor gave her a lethal injection. Another Canadian, Lee Landry, 65, told officials overseeing his petition in 2022 that he 'doesn't want to die' but has applied for MAiD because he can't afford to live comfortably. A doctor has given one of two signatures to allow it. Mr Landry uses a wheelchair and has several other disabilities that mean he is eligible for MAiD, including epilepsy and diabetes. But until recently, he was able to live comfortably, sharing his modest home in Medicine Hat, Alberta, with his service dog. Changes to his state benefits when he turned 65 in May meant his income was cut and he's now left with around $120 per month after paying for medical bills and essentials. He also faces homelessness. Mr Landry is awaiting the decision of a second doctor who has assessed his eligibility. If that doctor rejects the application, Mr Landry says he will simply 'shop' around for another who's prepared to sign off on his death - something that's allowed under Canada's assisted dying law. And in 2023, Tracey Thompson, 55, from Toronto, also applied to be euthanized after long Covid left her jobless and in constant pain... she hasn't been able to work and has run out of her savings. She also has no family to speak of and has lost all her friends. Now, Ms Thompson is seeking to end her life through Canada's assisted dying program, widely considered one of the most permissive in the world... While doctors are ethically tied in knots about the number of patients they’re seeing die whose deaths were not otherwise imminent, human rights advocates argue the law that restricts MAiD for people who are severely mentally ill is ‘discriminatory.’ Dying with Dignity, an end-of-life advocacy group, is asking lawmakers quash the mental-health exclusion. But, medical professionals have written on forums that the cause of disenfranchised and mentally ill people seeking euthanasia was not hopelessness but rather a lack of sufficient government safeguards... many experts in Europe worry Canadian officials are pushing the boundaries of what is ethically acceptable. Theo Boer, professor of health care ethics at Groningen University in the Netherlands, told the AP: ‘Canada seems to be providing euthanasia for social reasons, when people don't have the financial means, which would be a big taboo in Europe. ‘That may be what Canadians want, but they would still benefit from some honest self-reflection about what is going on.’"
The "myth" of the slippery slope strikes again
Private forums show Canadian doctors struggle with euthanizing vulnerable patients - "experts tasked with delivering euthanasia to people who aren’t dying have called it “morally distressing” and say the legal provisions are too vague to be protective, obliging doctors and nurses to at times end the lives of people they believe might otherwise be saved. “I don’t want (euthanasia) to become the solution to every kind of suffering out there,” a physician wrote to colleagues on one of the private forums... Unlike many other countries, Canada doesn’t require that patients exhaust all medical treatments before seeking death... Doctors and nurses “do not treat MAiD as an option of last resort,” said an August report published by the Christian think tank Cardus. The nonprofit organization Inclusion Canada regularly hears from people with disabilities who are offered euthanasia, including one disabled woman whose physiotherapist suggested it when she sought help for a bruised hip, said executive vice president Krista Carr. “Our response to the intolerable suffering of people with disabilities is: ‘Your life is not worth living,’” she said. “We’ll just offer them the lethal injection, and we’ll offer it readily.”... Cases of homelessness appear regularly and spark some of the most heated debate... Experts not linked to the forums said that while doctors and nurses need private space for discussion, the lack of transparency about controversial cases is alarming. “The question about who gets euthanasia is a societal question,” said Kasper Raus, a researcher at Ghent University’s Bioethics Institute in Belgium. “This is a procedure that ends people’s lives, so we need to be closely monitoring any changes in who is getting it. “If not, the entire practice could change and veer away from the reasons that we legalized euthanasia.”... in Ontario, more than three quarters of people euthanized when their death wasn’t imminent required disability support before their death in 2023... Poverty doesn’t appear to disproportionately affect patients with terminal diseases who are euthanized, according to the leaked data. And experts say no other country that has legalized euthanasia has seen a marked number of deaths in impoverished people... She predicted legal consequences if officials introduce more safeguards for euthanasia: “We’ll just be back in court with somebody saying, ‘You interfered with my basic human rights.’”"
Assisted dying ‘abused’ in Canada, admits group that helped legalise it - "members of the British Columbia Civil liberties Association (BCCLA), the group that spearheaded efforts to legalise assisted dying, have raised fears the practice is being “abused”. Staff members also fear disabled people in Canada are being coerced by doctors into choosing to end their lives. It comes as data revealed by The
Telegraph last week showed those on lower incomes who were offered the scheme were more likely to opt for it... they spoke of a patient who had been approved for assisted dying on the grounds of suffering from hearing loss. On the same call, it was claimed some medical colleges in Canada had been advising against referring to MAiD on patients’ long-form death certificates, in a move which could distort the true numbers of people using it. One staff member admitted feeling “very uncomfortable” about the group’s previous campaigning on assisted suicide. Speaking on the call, one of the two current BCCLA employees said: “It is the social and material aspect of [patients] disability and how that isn’t supported and how that’s treated in the community that’s creating intolerable conditions. “In my view, that’s not proper,” they said, adding that healthcare providers should not raise the subject of MAiD with patients as “it’s far too easy for that to become coercive”... Canadian medical and legal experts have warned that opening the door to assisted dying could lead to the limitations on who is eligible being stripped away. “One of the most worrying aspects of the Canadian experiment is it shows that once you start legalising, there is a risk that a significant number of physicians normalise this practice,” said Trudo Lemmens, a professor of law at the university of Toronto who has testified before Canadian parliamentary committees on the introduction of assisted dying. “It’s like putting fuel on the fire. I’m not sure it can be easily contained,” he continued. “Once it’s implemented, there will be advocacy groups pushing for further expansion, and I see that already in the English debate.” In a poignant example of how the vulnerable are being targeted, The Telegraph earlier this month revealed how a grandmother suffering with breast cancer was offered assisted dying by the very doctors who were about to give her a life-saving mastectomy... The Telegraph also spoke to another patient, Roger Foley, 49, who lodged a legal complaint after being offered assisted suicide four times... “Are they going to have the same passion to support vulnerable people to live as they had in the past to let them die?”... At the time, Carter’s lawyer Joseph A Arvay of the BCCLA argued that the risk of people unnecessarily ending their lives through an assisted dying scheme was negligible."
Meme - Cam Dabby Drip Drop: "Finally seeing commercials with all white people again"
End Wokeness @EndWokeness: "Canadian retailer Simons promotes assisted suicide in new ad campaign:"
Oddly, another version of this got blocked but yet another didn't
Meme - Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z: "As @AlexanderRaikin pointed out, BC also has a billing code for MAiD visits to children between the ages of 0 and 1, which is illegal under existing legislation ($45,87)."
Alexander Raikin @AlexanderRaikin: "Is British Columbia ready for infanticide? Well, it already mapped out the payment schedule for it."
Left wingers were very upset about abortion trigger laws, but of course it's good to be prepared to euthanise children. Which some would call literal infanticide, but of course they're far right conspiracy theorists spreading misinformation
We were promised MAiD would be rare. Instead, Canadian euthanasia deaths are soaring - "When the Supreme Court of Canada decriminalized euthanasia and assisted suicide, it tasked Parliament to create “a stringently limited, carefully monitored system of exceptions.” Instead, within a decade, Canada created the world’s largest and fastest-growing euthanasia program... This rapid growth rate is a uniquely Canadian problem. While the number of euthanasia deaths is increasing in every jurisdiction that legalized permissive euthanasia, no other jurisdiction has ever seen such a rate of growth in euthanasia, especially not so soon after legalization. It took the Netherlands, the first country to effectively decriminalize euthanasia in 1981 and to formally legalize it in 2002, 32 years for it to become the only jurisdiction in the world where more than 3 percent of total deaths were caused by euthanasia. Not even next-door Belgium, which legalized euthanasia two months after the Netherlands, has ever passed the 3 percent threshold. But then Canada legalized euthanasia. It took Canada just six years after legalization to cross the 3 percent threshold. In the seventh year, Canada crossed the 4 percent line. By the time we receive the latest year of mortality data for 2023, if current trends hold, Canada is set to pass 4.7 percent of total deaths to be caused by euthanasia. Proponents of MAiD frequently claim that these numbers were expected. Stefanie Green, the president of the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers, for instance, claimed two years ago in a parliamentary committee that “data to date suggests that the expected number of Canadians are accessing and receiving MAID.” Yet the reality is that no one expected this increase. Not the courts, who believed it would be limited, nor the lead lawyer for the plaintiff in Carter v. Canada who argued that it would only be a “last resort.” Not the New England Journal of Medicine, which predicted in 2020 only 2,000 deaths annually (it was 7,511 MAiD deaths that year). Not Health Canada, which predicted in 2018 that Canada’s “steady state” of MAiD deaths would be 2 percent of total deaths, and even when Health Canada doubled its estimate in 2022, it predicted that Canada would reach 4 percent only in the 2030s—instead of just months after. Not the Trudeau government, which continues to maintain that MAiD is only for those “where everything has been tried,” as then Minister of Justice David Lametti testified, or for those who “have tried everything imaginable to address their suffering,” as claimed Ya’ara Saks, then parliamentary secretary to the minister of Families, Children and Social Development. Not the Canadian Medical Association, which believed euthanasia would be only appropriate for “rare occasions.” Not even the critics. Bioethicist Margaret Somerville testified to the Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying on February 4, 2016, that she estimated that there could be “between 11,000 and 12,000 Canadians being killed by lethal injection” every year if Canada followed the Belgium and Netherlands model—although “I could almost not believe it when I worked out those figures.” It was intended to shock the committee, yet in 2022, we have already surpassed Somerville’s worst-case estimate. MAiD is simply no longer exceptional or rare. Canada now serves as an international clarion call for what happens when governments prioritize an assisted death over an assisted life—as even supporters of euthanasia abroad distance themselves from Canada’s MAiD program. It is a scandal, it seems, everywhere but here at home. In terms of funding, we simply prioritize death care over health care. The facts speak for themselves... while wait times for medical care have been increasing to all-time highs, the median number of days for MAiD, from request to death, is disturbingly short. Not even COVID-19 increased wait times for MAiD. The median number was only 11 days in 2022; the previous year it was nine days."
