5% of All Deaths in Canada the Result of Doctor-Assisted Suicide

[mountaineer]

Report: 5% of All Deaths in Canada the Result of Doctor-Assisted Suicide
Protestia
December 1, 2025   

More than five percent of all deaths in Canada in 2024 were the result of legalized doctor-assisted suicide, according to the latest government report on MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying).Key findings from the 2024 report:

    * 95.6% of MAID cases (n=15,767) were Track 1 (death reasonably foreseeable).
    * 4.4% of cases (n=732) were Track 2 (death not reasonably foreseeable).

For Track 1 patients, where death is imminent, most people cited a terminal cancer diagnosis, including lung, colorectal, pancreatic and blood cancer.

For Track 2 patients, where death was not imminent, the most commonly cited underlying medical conditions were neurological disorders and “other” conditions such as diabetes, frailty, autoimmune diseases, and chronic pain. ...

In a survey conducted last month, 25% of Canadians agreed that poverty or homelessness should qualify someone for MAID.Canadian politicians are currently debating whether to expand eligibility to include mature minors (children) and people whose sole condition is mental illness.

"Frailty"? Yikes.

[mountaineer]

... The median age of those who chose MAID last year was 77.9 years. Cancer was the most frequently cited medical condition, affecting more than 63 per cent of MAID recipients. The most common types of cancer cited were lung, colorectal, pancreatic and hematologic.  ...

More than 95 per cent of those who had an assisted death last year had a condition that made their deaths “reasonably foreseeable,” the report said.

Just 4.4 per cent were “track 2” MAID patients – people whose deaths were not deemed to be foreseeable but who said they were suffering intolerably.

Assisted death became legal in 2021 for people whose deaths were not reasonably foreseeable.

For those patients, there’s a minimum 90-day waiting period between the first assessment and the procedure. ...

The Globe and Mail

[libertybele]

I can understand someone who has been in unbearable pain for awhile with no chance of improvement. There have been cancer patients who have been told that they were terminal go into remission so this is quite a broad list of circumstances and some I don't necessarily agree with.  I think each case needs to be carefully evaluated rather than it be that a few boxes are checked off and doctor assisted suicide is allowed.

[mountaineer]

As I recall, the Canadian gov't once offered one of its veterans the option of suicide after she simply requested a new wheelchair. She didn't want to die, she just wanted to get around a little better. 

[mountaineer]

I wonder how many deaths occur in Canada when people are told to keep waiting in ERs, even when they're gasping for breath?

YEGWAVE
@yegwave
An Edmonton man who died in a hospital waiting room reportedly begged for help, and each time he approached the desk, he was told to sit down and wait.
He lay on the floor, asking repeatedly, and staff allegedly told him to move for the privacy of other patients. He was pacing, dry heaving, and tapping his chest—clearly in distress.
A follower of YEGWAVE who reached out to us witnessed this and says they never want to see the inside of that ER again.

https://twitter.com/yegwave/status/2003972097857536315

[mountaineer]

Killed by his government's T-4 program over his family's objections: This young man was euthanized by Canada’s government-run healthcare. Kiano had diabetes, vision impairment, and struggled with mental illness. He was only 26 years old.

https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/2009699383366037903

[mountaineer]

Oh, Canada. Please stop executing people.

Visegrád 24
@visegrad24
An elderly woman in Canada was euthanized only hours after telling doctors she wanted to live and receive hospice care instead.

She had become very ill after heart surgery and was being cared for at home by her elderly husband, who doctors noted was experiencing “caregiver burnout.”

According to an official review, the woman told one assessor she wanted to withdraw her request for assisted death, citing “personal and religious values,” and asked for hospice care instead.

Her hospice placement was quickly denied, and her husband requested an “urgent” reassessment for assisted dying, saying he could no longer cope with caring for her.

She was euthanized that same evening.

Reviewers later said the short timeline failed to properly examine her true wishes, with the case raising serious questions about Canada’s approach to euthanasia.
5:39 AM · Jan 24, 2026

[deb]

Gotta rethink making Canada a state, eh?
They really aren’t like us.

[Idiot]

Oh, Canada. Please stop executing people.

Truly evil...

[Smokin Joe]

Table 2.2a: 2023 MAID provisions in Canada, by jurisdiction Province or territory

MAID provisions   Count    Percent (%)
N.L.                       72    0.5
P.E.I.               44    0.3
N.S.             359    2.3
N.B.             299    1.9
Que.          5,601    36.5
Ont.          4,644    30.3
Man.             227    1.5
Sask.             344    2.2
Alta.             977    6.4
B.C.                  2,759    18.0
Y.T.                         X    X
N.W.T.                  X    X
Nvt.                         0    0.0
Total    -    100%

Table 2.2a Footnote a

    X suppressed to meet confidentiality requirements

Well, those didn't line up like they did in the window I put them in.

Data from: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/health-system-services/annual-report-medical-assistance-dying-2023.html

[Idiot]

Table 2.2a: 2023 MAID provisions in Canada, by jurisdiction Province or territory

MAID provisions   Count    Percent (%)
N.L.                       72    0.5
P.E.I.               44    0.3
N.S.             359    2.3
N.B.             299    1.9
Que.          5,601    36.5
Ont.          4,644    30.3
Man.             227    1.5
Sask.             344    2.2
Alta.             977    6.4
B.C.                  2,759    18.0
Y.T.                         X    X
N.W.T.                  X    X
Nvt.                         0    0.0
Total    -    100%

Table 2.2a Footnote a

    X suppressed to meet confidentiality requirements

Well, those didn't line up like they did in the window I put them in.

Data from: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications/health-system-services/annual-report-medical-assistance-dying-2023.html

A petroleum engineer friend of mine found out he had brain cancer and instead of putting himself and his family through what was going to be a long painful process decided to blow his brains out.  I don't agree with it, but I can kind of understand it. 

And my father suffered a massive stroke during surgery leaving him a vegetable unable to eat , drink, communicate at all.  He had a medical directive, so he proceeded to starve with no food or water over the next couple of weeks until he died.  I still struggle with this....  What would have been more humane?  When my dog was in such intense pain I took her to have her put down....even my dog suffered less.  I really have no answers.....

[mountaineer]

I don't understand suicide, myself. I can't imagine causing so much pain to other people.

Yesterday I went to a funeral home. The physically healthy 58-year-old son of some folks from church had shot himself in the head. No warning. His poor mother was just crying, saying she didn't know why he did it, didn't know he was feeling depressed. His 90-year-old father could hardly say anything.

He left two 20-something sons and other relatives.

This is sad enough. That the Canadian government is killing its own citizens - who don't want to die, mind you - is unconscionable.

[libertybele]

I don't understand suicide, myself. I can't imagine causing so much pain to other people.

Yesterday I went to a funeral home. The physically healthy 58-year-old son of some folks from church had shot himself in the head. No warning. His poor mother was just crying, saying she didn't know why he did it, didn't know he was feeling depressed. His 90-year-old father could hardly say anything.

He left two 20-something sons and other relatives.

This is sad enough. That the Canadian government is killing its own citizens - who don't want to die, mind you - is unconscionable.

Agreed, absolutely unconscionable!

[Smokin Joe]

I don't understand suicide, myself. I can't imagine causing so much pain to other people.

Yesterday I went to a funeral home. The physically healthy 58-year-old son of some folks from church had shot himself in the head. No warning. His poor mother was just crying, saying she didn't know why he did it, didn't know he was feeling depressed. His 90-year-old father could hardly say anything.

He left two 20-something sons and other relatives.

This is sad enough. That the Canadian government is killing its own citizens - who don't want to die, mind you - is unconscionable.

Usually people who suicide are focused on their own pain, to the exclusion of others. I believe it is that focus that impels them, and the inability or lack of desire to look beyond their personal situation to the effects their actions will have on others. Paradoxically, sometimes they may be motivated by a sense of getting even with others, but I don't think they have thought that through very well. The presence of judgement impairing substances in their systems may well be a factor.

Sadly, all too many late teen-twenty somethings have taken their own lives (or been made to appear to) in this area. It is a permanent solution to temporary problems, and I have pointed that out.

Drugs leave a question mark, because apparent suicide by OD may just be a hot load, a heavier than expected dose with tragic results, at least with IV drugs.
There are lots of ways to check out if someone is determined, but I really do not believe that decision (much as I am against doing so) should be left to anyone but the person doing so, and still would counsel against it.

But that may be my old Catholic upbringing, where we were taught to offer up our suffering for our sins.

[mountaineer]

Well, but of course Canadians prefer that only white people off themselves.

Dr. Jocelyn Downie: "People doing MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) are actually very privileged, white, and well off"

https://twitter.com/DefiantLs/status/2024494179116855807