Canada’s laws against assisted suicide are getting looser.
In February 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada, in the case Carter v. Canada, ruled that section 14 and paragraph 241(b) of the Criminal Code were unconstitutional because they banned physicians from assisting in the consensual death of another person. In 2016, the country introduced Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), a process that allowed someone found eligible by being terminally ill to be assisted by a medical practitioner in ending their life.
But in 2021, the need to be terminally ill was removed, and by March 2027, MAID may be used by people suffering from mental illness, but no physical illness.
In 2023, Canada had 15,343 MAID deaths, roughly one in every 20 deaths in Canada, one of the highest percentages in the world. According to the BBC, roughly 96% of MAID deaths occur as “reasonably foreseeable,” such as…
