Euthanasia in Canada. MAiD in hell?

The United Kingdom and other countries are looking to Canada for guidelines about how to legislate for euthanasia. According to a group called UK Humanists, “We can and should learn from Canada to create laws that are right for the UK”.

Canada’s euthanasia regime, which is officially termed “medical assistance in dying” or MAiD, is often described as the most radical in the world. In a recent article in The Spectator (UK), journalist Douglas Murray described it as a “hell-path”. After March 2024, he opined, doctors “will be able to kill (or award ‘medically assisted suicide’) to people of any age who suffer from anorexia, depression, PTSD or a growing smorgasbord of other debilitating ailments.”

UK Humanists deny this pessimistic view of the future. After studying a number of cases which came to light in the Canadian media, its report concluded optimistically: “we don’t believe that anyone in Canada has had an assisted death who shouldn’t have been able to.”More...

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