State-facilitated suicide is now the leading cause of death north of the border. New reports From the Canadian think tank Cardus. Founded by eugenicists The health system may already be overtaking cerebrovascular disease, which was previously the fifth leading cause of death.
Canada legalized euthanasia, euphemistically called “medical assisted dying,” in 2016. Cardus said court decisions initially emphasized that MAID should be a “highly limited and carefully monitored system of exceptions,” but that’s what it appears to have become.
“MAiD in Canada is no longer unusual or rare, and federal projections of the likely frequency of MAiD have significantly underestimated the number of Canadians who will die by this means,” the report states. “More troubling, doctors are not acting as ‘unwilling gatekeepers’ of euthanasia, as the plaintiffs’ lawyers argue. Carter As expected, the evidence seems to be very favorable for MAiD requests, as seen from available data on the length of time from assessment to delivery, the percentage of MAiD requests that are denied, and the frequency of occurrence.”
The Blaze News previously reported that MAID killed 1,108 Canadians in its first year. That number tripled the following year, and by 2021, state-assisted suicide deaths were at more than 10,000 per year in a country with a total population of just under 39 million. In 2022, state-assisted suicides increased another 31%, accounting for more than 4% of Canadian deaths.
“Between 2016 and 2022, the number of deaths by euthanasia increased 13-fold since the study began,” Alexander Laikin, a visiting scholar at the Washington, D.C.-based Ethics and Public Policy Center and an author of the study, told Postmedia. “This means that Canada is the country with the fastest expansion of euthanasia in the world.”
In 2022, there were 84,412 reported cancer deaths in Canada, 57,357 deaths from heart disease, 19,716 deaths from COVID-19 and 18,365 deaths from accidents.
According to Cardus, MAID and cerebrovascular disease (a group of conditions that includes aneurysms, carotid stenosis, and stroke) are neck and neck for fifth place, with 13,915 deaths from cerebrovascular disease in 2022 and 13,241 deaths from MAID.
“If it can happen there, it can happen here.”
In terms of casualty numbers, cerebrovascular disease appears to outnumber state-assisted suicide, but Cardus suggested that Statistics Canada doesn’t recognize MAID as a cause of death, so MAID deaths may be counted in the number of cerebrovascular deaths, meaning the results are close.
MAID not only kills many dying people – people who otherwise might have lived for years or even decades – it also kills victims whose primary symptom is suicidal thoughts.
People who originally wanted maids It had to be The individual must be 18 years of age or older, have a “serious and incurable medical condition” that causes “unbearable ongoing physical or mental suffering,” and be in a “state of advanced irreversible debilitation” that makes it likely that the individual will die in the near future.
The rules are Loose Since then, people with PTSD, depression, anxiety and other survivable issues have been able to undergo euthanasia.
The report said there was now sufficient evidence to show that “health professionals do not view MAiD solely as a last resort.”
“In less than a decade, euthanasia has gone from a rare exception to a routine cause of death in Canada, as originally intended by advocates, policymakers, courts and even the lead counsel for the plaintiffs in Carter v. Canada,” Laikin said.
Some in Ottawa appear to see euthanasia as a way to reduce strain on the socialized health care system and save money. The burden of a large influx of immigrants Under the Trudeau government.
The Parliamentary Budget Office of Canada October 2020 Report “Expanding access to MAID will result in a net reduction in provincial health care costs,” he said, saving provinces hundreds of millions of dollars that could have been spent on life-saving care and treatment paid for by taxpayers to Canadians.
Wesley J. Smith, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Human Exceptionalism, recently wrote: said Of Dr. Cardus’ findings, he said: “If it can happen there, it can happen here. The only sure prevention is to reject assisted suicide programs while they remain relatively limited, and to reinvigorate the ethical tenets of Hippocratic medicine.”
Smith is right to be worried.
Last week, Gallup Revealed A majority of Americans currently support legal euthanasia.
Seventy-one percent of respondents said doctors “should be allowed by law to end a patient’s life by painless means if the patient or their family so requests.” Sixty-six percent said doctors should be allowed to assist patients in committing suicide.
Despite this overwhelming support, only 53% of Americans say physician-assisted suicide is morally acceptable, while 40% say it is morally wrong.
Religion clearly plays a role in shaping views on whether it is acceptable for doctors in white coats to kill their patients: 77% of non-religious Americans say physician-assisted suicide is morally acceptable, while only 46% of “Protestants/other Christians” and 44% of Catholics say the same.
The opposing stance was strongest among those who admitted to weekly religious attendance (66%). Only 28% of those who rarely or never attend religious services expressed an opposing stance.
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