MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

OTTAWA — Canada’s state-assisted suicide program, called MAiD, was sold by the Liberal government as a “stringently limited, carefully monitored system,” a rare option of last resort for people at the very end of life. New data from Health Canada show that in 2024, 16,499 Canadians died by MAiD — 5.1 percent of all deaths in the country.

Does it not follow logically, from these data, that Ottawa’s original framework has, cloaked in the rhetoric of progressively humane ideals, insidiously crept into something far more sinister than what Supreme Court justices, in their wisdom, affirmed in a society-altering Charter of Rights ruling in 2015?

Prime Minister Mark Carney has displayed a remarkable willingness to dismantle the legacy of his predecessor across the public policy board.

In the coming months, he may be tempted to take another look at one of the more indefensible decisions made by former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government: the expansion of its medical assistance in dying legislation.

As Canada approaches the ten-year mark of legalized doctor-assisted death, the number of annual deaths appears to be plateauing, according to the federal government’s latest report on medical assistance in dying (MAID).

A total of 16,499 people died by MAID in Canada in 2024. However, the year-over-year annual growth rate in deaths has been shrinking, from 36.8 per cent between 2019 and 2020, to 6.9 per cent between 2023 and 2024, according to Health Canada’s sixth annual report on MAID.

Canadians with disabilities are being offered medical assistance in dying (MAID) when accessing health care for regular health concerns, a disabilities advocate told a parliamentary committee on Oct. 8.

“People with disabilities are now very much afraid in many circumstances to show up in the health care system with regular health concerns, because often MAID is suggested as a solution to what is considered to be intolerable suffering,” Krista Carr, CEO of Inclusion Canada, told the Parliamentary Finance Committee on Oct. 8.

Imagine this scenario: An elderly wife has received a terminal diagnosis. She now knows how she will die. She is afraid. She does not want to suffer, nor gradually (or quickly) lose her faculties. It feels undignified. Who wants to suffer in front of their loved ones? She lives in the state of Washington, so instead, she elects to take her own life, supported by the state.

Her husband is in shock, he grieves before she is even dead. He is overwhelmed. He looks into his wife’s eyes and cannot imagine a home, or a life, without her in it. They have an adult daughter together—a human embodiment of the love that he and his wife have shared. He confides in his daughter about his grief, and further, about his fear of living alone after his wife’s passing.

This is a true story. The daughter does not shine.

OMG! @fancypants_s https://t.co/8MqD6WQANd

— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) October 13, 2025

H/T Patti Jo

Lorenz Kraus’s alleged murders underscore the inhuman logic of New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act.

Sitting on New York governor Kathy Hochul’s desk is a bill that would legalize assisted suicide in New York. For years, a small group of assisted-suicide activists, usually bedecked in yellow, have lined the hallways of the capitol, urging lawmakers to show “compassion” for New Yorkers so that they can “die with dignity.” This past spring, the legislature acquiesced to their demands with the Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) Act, which would allow people with terminal diagnoses to request lethal drugs.

After years of exponential growth in the year-to-year increase of Ontarians accessing medical assistance in dying (MAiD), the rate appears to have reached a plateau, according to new numbers provided by the Office of the Chief Coroner.

The stabilizing growth rate means MAiD deaths are moving toward a “predictable, steady share of overall mortality” in Canada, according to some analysts — who argued the data counters claims that the uptake of MAiD is increasing too rapidly.

They kill people for being depressed.

An American man in late-stage heart failure received a donor heart from a 38-year-old Canadian man with ALS killed earlier this year under that country’s decade-old euthanasia law. It’s the first-ever heart transplant from a Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) donor.

“The case involved a 59-year-old man with rapidly worsening heart failure who wasn’t expected to survive more than a month,” Canada’s National Post reported, and “the time from retrieval to transplant was five hours and 28 minutes.”