A report released this week by the Canadian government shows a significant increase in deaths by euthanasia in Canada.
Health Canada Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) reportThe fifth annual report shows that nearly 5 per cent of the total deaths in the country last year were due to euthanasia.
In Canada, medical personnel will euthanize an astonishing 15,343 people in 2023, an increase of 15.8 per cent compared to 2022.
In a bit of irony appropriate for the Babylon Bee, the report notes that “Health Canada is the federal department responsible for helping Canadians maintain and improve their health.”
Health Canada is “committed to improving the lives of all Canadians and making our country the healthiest in the world through longevity, lifestyle and effective use of our public health care system.” added.
The government also declares that it has set in place “rigorous eligibility criteria to determine who can receive MAID and strong safeguards to ensure it is provided safely”. , some may feel that this provision is self-contradictory.
One of the eligibility criteria set by the government is that the patient must die a “reasonably foreseeable” natural death, given that no one lives forever. Probably the lowest standard imaginable.
In an attempt to assess the remarkable growth in popularity of euthanasia among Canadians, the report points to a number of factors, including growing social acceptance of government-assisted killing.
“Increasing awareness of MAID across the continuum of care, an aging population, associated illnesses and disease patterns, personal beliefs, social acceptance, and even the availability of physicians to provide MAID are all factors that influence reimbursement rates. ,” the report said.
The report also said that assisted homicide “appears to be becoming an intensive specialty for some health care workers,” with a small group of 89 health care workers each accounting for 10% of all Track 1 deaths. noted that track 2 was involved in 35.1% and 28.6% of all deaths. The latter group are those whose natural death was “not reasonably foreseeable.”
The total number of people who have died under Canada's euthanasia laws since legalization in 2016 is 60,301, the report found.
