MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

The case of Noelia Castillo, a 25-year-old Spanish woman who died by euthanasia, has opened another line of conflict between the Trump administration and Europe, as Washington has ordered a formal inquiry into the Spanish government’s handling of the case, according to a leaked diplomatic cable obtained by the New York Post.

According to the alleged cable, the US State Department instructed its embassy in Madrid to investigate what it described as ‘serious concerns’ over ‘systematic human rights failures’ surrounding Castillo’s case.

Some health-care workers who either directly provide medical assistance in dying or work in that field say they are strongly opposed to Bill 18 — which, if passed, would prevent doctors or nurse practitioners from administering MAID to patients if they are unlikely to die within the next 12 months.

In a letter published in the Edmonton Journal on Friday and shared with CBC News, 25 health-care workers signed their names to make their opposition known.

Leftists claim that Canada has better healthcare than America. But Canada apparently realized that it’s cheaper to allow residents to kill themselves than provide real healthcare.

Canada legalized assisted suicide in 2016 for people who faced imminent death. Medical assistance in dying (MAID) allows a medical practitioner to end a person’s life. Since then, Canada has expanded the program rapidly to more people. Starting in March 2027, Canada will allow anyone age 18 and older who claims a mental illness to allow the state to kill them. You don’t need to have a fatal or terminal condition to be eligible.

When she was taken by ambulance to a Vancouver hospital with lower back pain the likes of which she’d never experienced, the last thing 84-year-old Miriam Lancaster said she was thinking of was “cashing my chips.”

Noelia Castillo Ramos, a 25-year-old Spanish woman, died by euthanasia yesterday. Spanish law allows citizens over 18 with ‘chronic or invalidating suffering’ to receive assisted dying. Ramos, whose short life was one of unimaginable difficulty, certainly fitted the criteria.

The scale of growth of Canada’s assisted-dying industry has become an easy talking point for skeptics both in Canada and abroad. The New York Post, in typical tabloid fashion, announced that Canada will “soon cross the sickly six-figure threshold” of 100,000 deaths by medical assistance in dying (MAID), noting the figure will surpass the number of Canadian deaths during the Second World War. Conservative MPs cited that figure in social-media posts, adding that what was once pegged as a “last resort” has metamorphosed into an entirely different operation. During a press conference announcing new restrictions on MAID in Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith noted the pace of growth in MAID deaths in cautionary terms (up 64 per cent nationally between 2021 and 2024), saying these trends “should give anyone pause.”

Four-and-a-half years after he was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, a Dutch teen was euthanized at his request.

The boy, aged between 16 and 18, had described his life as “joyless.” He’d struggled with anxiety and mood-related problems, and where he fit in, in the world. Oversensitive to stimuli, “every day was an ordeal he had to get through,” according to the latest annual report from the Netherlands’ regional euthanasia death review committees. “In the final weeks before his death, he lay in bed the whole time.”