I have always understood and sympathized with the argument for assisted suicide for people facing terminal disease near the end of life.
I think hospice care is the appropriate path, but most people can at least understand the impulse to ease the path for a suffering loved one.
But I have also feared that the slippery slope would lead us to this point: assisted suicide for anyone at any time for any reason. And, eventually, outright medical murder, as happens in some Nordic countries where doctors sometimes decide for patients without consent.
Canada is at the second stage after legalizing assisted suicide for terminally ill patients near the end of life in 2015. Since that time, so-called “Medical Assistance in Dying” has rocketed to become the 5th-leading cause of death in the Great White North.
Considering the zeal by which some MAID providers glorify MAiD as a universal…
