Canada is at least good at something...
...and that something is killing their own citizens.
A sad reality. Canada beat out the Netherlands, which killed 9,958 of its citizens in 2024, an increase of 10% from 2023. Canada increased their 2023 total by 6.9%, seeing 16,499 euthanasia deaths, accounting for 5.1% of all deaths nationwide.
Let's look at the details:
[E]very single person who died under Canada's MAiD programme died by euthanasia. In 2023, there were fewer than five instances of assisted suicide.
There have been a total of 76,475 instances of euthanasia and assisted suicide since they were made legal in Canada in 2016.
Among the factors recorded by medical practitioners as part of a person's application for euthanasia in 2024, 75.5% of people cited "loss of independence", a significant increase from 2023, when 52.2% cited "loss of independence". 48.5% of all those who died by euthanasia cited being a "perceived burden on family, friends or caregivers". Among those whose natural death was not reasonably foreseeable (Track 2), over half (50.3%) were concerned about being a burden.
This is seriously depressing. And no, I'm not Canadian or Dutch so I'll be just fine.
Additionally, 58.1% of those who died by euthanasia in Canada in 2024 cited emotional "distress/anxiety/fear/existential suffering", a 19.8 percentage point increase on the number of people who cited this end-of-life concern in 2023.
Over a fifth of people (22.9%) who died by euthanasia in Canada in 2024 had "isolation or loneliness" recorded by a medical practitioner in their application for euthanasia. Significantly, 44.7% of those on Track 2, whose deaths were not reasonably foreseeable, experienced isolation or loneliness.
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The total number of people who died by euthanasia under Track 2 increased by 17.12% from 625 in 2023 to 732 in 2024.
That's an increase in euthanasia in people whose lives "were not reasonably forseeable."
Some stories we've published in the past concerning Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying:
That's a silly headline up there, but man is this a serious subject I wish I hadn't dived into today.
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