Quebec has become the jurisdiction with the highest proportion of deaths by euthanasia and assisted suicide in the world, according to Michel Bureau, president of the province’s Commission on End of Life Care.
“In Quebec 5.1% of deaths result from MAID,” he told a press conference in December. “In the Netherlands it’s 4.8% of deaths and in Belgium 2.3%.”--
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However, MAiD or medical assistance in dying, has only been legal in Quebec since 2016 while in the Netherlands and Belgium, it has been legal since 2002.
