Only cancer, heart disease, COVID-19, accidents and strokes ranked higher than medically-assisted suicide as causes of deaths in 2022.
Despite promises of a “stringently limited, carefully monitored system of exceptions,” medically-assisted death is now the fifth-leading cause of death in Canada, our report finds.
The report, written for Cardus by Alexander Raikin, contains a series of seriously sobering statistics about Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) regime, which has seen a thirteen-fold rise in participants since its 2016 legalization.
August 9, 2024
