Unpublished Newswire

It was presented to Canadians as an exceptional option to an already approaching natural death. How did doctor-assisted dying become so popular? Nearly a decade after the Criminal Code was amended to permit doctors to end, under certain conditions, a consenting person’s life, one in 20 deaths in Canada now involve medical assistance in dying (MAID). While proponents say the numbers reflect a pent-up demand for an end-of-life option that’s long had broad support among Canadians, critics fear MAID is being sold as a medicine, a “death therapy,” and that some lives are being ended...