Canada euthanizes 36 citizens every single day, data show

One of the euthanasia capitals of the world, Canada, is back in the news for the high number of citizens that die throughout the country via assisted suicide every single day.

According to the latest figures, 36 Canadians die every single
day with the help of a government-approved doctor. In fact, euthanasia
is now so popular in Canada that it makes up 4.1 percent of deaths
nationwide.

This is a significant increase since 2021 when just 3.3 percent of Canadian deaths every year were the result of euthanasia.

The fourth annual report on Medical Assistance in Dying
(MAiD) for 2022, which was just released last month, states that since
2016, euthanasia has claimed the lives of almost 45,000 Canadians.

MAiD was legalized in 2016, by the way. That year, 1,018
Canadians chose to die under the program. Just six years later in 2022,
that annual figure of Canadian euthanasia deaths skyrocketed to 13,241
people, which works out to about 36 euthanasia deaths daily throughout
Canada.

“This works out to an average yearly growth rate of 31.1% since
2019,” a report about the matter explains. “Data shows that 81% of
written requests for MAID were granted.”

“However, of the remaining 19%, only 3.5% of applicants were
deemed ineligible for MAID, a number which has been declining since
2019.”

If more beds were available, even more Canadians would be approved for euthanasia

One important thing to note in all this is that most patients in
Canada who are denied MAiD are only refused because there simply is not
enough capacity at approved facilities to handle their assisted deaths.

“This means that individuals within this category were solely
refused because of the lack of beds available, and they would have been
euthanized if space permitted,” reports explain.

The Canadian provinces seeing the most assisted suicide are
Quebec and British Columbia. Out of all deaths in these two provinces,
6.6 percent and 5.5 percent, respectively, are caused by assisted
suicide.

Conversely, the two Canadian provinces with the lowest levels of
euthanasia are Newfoundland & Labrador and Manitoba, accounting for
1.5 percent and 2.1 percent of all deaths, respectively.

According to Health Canada, an individual must experience
“intolerable physical or psychological suffering that is caused by their
medical condition or their state of decline and that cannot be relieved
under conditions that the individual finds acceptable” in order to
qualify for MAiD.

A survey of MAiD recipients found that the primary source of
one’s “intolerable suffering” is the “loss of ability to engage in
meaningful life activity,” with a full 86 percent of respondents saying
they experience this. Eighty-two percent indicated that they opted for
assisted suicide because they lost the ability to perform ADL, which
stands for activities of daily living.

“This confirms that euthanasia is mainly [an] existential issue,
not a pain management or medical one,” contends life advocate Amanda
Achtman, who opposes assisted suicide.

“The Government of Canada continues to use creepy euphemisms, including:

– MAID ‘provisions’

– MAID ‘recipients’

– steady ‘year-over-year growth’ [in #s of deaths]

– ‘performed the procedure’

– ‘eased safeguards’

– ‘MAID care coordination systems,'” Achtman tweeted in a series
of posts about how not everything is as it seems in Canada concerning
its euthanasia program.

“As in previous years, the top cited kind of suffering that leads
a person to ask for euthanasia is ‘the loss of ability to engage in
meaningful activities.'”

Starting on March 17, 2024, people with mental problems as their
sole underlying medical condition will no longer qualify for MAiD.