The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is asking the Canadian government to scale back its Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program of doctor-assisted suicide.
After an impassioned debate, members of Parliament approved the so-called assisted dying bill by a vote of 330 to 275.
The latest twist in the saga of assisted suicide in Canada – or Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID), as the Canadians prefer to call it – involves an Ontario man in his late 40s who the government killed for “post Covid-19 vaccination syndrome.”
Nearly 900 people died by assisted suicide in 2023 in California, according to a state department of health report released this month.
Canada has indefinitely delayed its plan to expand Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) to patients with only mental illness.
Euthanasia has become so common in Quebec that its end-of-life commissioner fears suicide is no longer seen as a “last resort.”
A 37-year-old Vancouver woman says a hospital clinician proposed medically assisted suicide when she sought help for depression.
A transsexual Canadian requested assisted suicide in order to end long-term suffering and pain from surgery to manufacture a “neo-vagina”.
Canada’s National Post on Tuesday published the results of a poll that show nearly a third of Canadians believe assisted suicide should be offered to homeless people who are weary of their lives.
Assisted suicide is “moral progress” and should also be available for those suffering mental illness, according to a recent New York Times piece.
It will soon be legal to Euthanise children with certain terminal illnesses in the Netherlands, reports on Friday have claimed.
Canadian populist leader Bernier slammed a retailer for their viral commercial, criticising the store for trying to make suicide seem “cool.”
A document for doctors in Canada has suggested that they bring up the topic of euthanasia before their patients do.
