In its first full year in practice, 2,838 patients died by MAID. The most recent government data shows 13,241 Canadians died by MAID in 2022, accounting for 4.1 per cent of all deaths in the country that year.
My GFil found out he had stage 4 throat cancer, by that point he was completely unable to eat or drink, and was in his 90s. He requested MAID, which likely saved him a couple weeks to a month of suffering
His pregnant granddaughter held his hand as he left this world.
This would be chalked as a MAID death, even if it only saved him a couple weeks of suffering.
It is a MAIDs death. The whole point is that every occurs instead of a much worse death. They’re not meant to happen if the person wouldn’t have died otherwise. The scare mongers are avoiding the whole point
I mean, it doesn’t surprise me.
My GFil found out he had stage 4 throat cancer, by that point he was completely unable to eat or drink, and was in his 90s. He requested MAID, which likely saved him a couple weeks to a month of suffering
His pregnant granddaughter held his hand as he left this world.
This would be chalked as a MAID death, even if it only saved him a couple weeks of suffering.
It is a MAIDs death. The whole point is that every occurs instead of a much worse death. They’re not meant to happen if the person wouldn’t have died otherwise. The scare mongers are avoiding the whole point