NYT: Once Catholic Quebec now the world leader in euthanasia and assisted suicide.

NY’s governor Hochul (self described social justice Catholic) who proudly wrote that suicide is a human right might want New York to compete with Quebec on this… Hit the link for the full story.

“A society once strongly Roman Catholic has rejected the church’s prohibition on euthanasia, with many instead viewing control over one’s death as an individual right.”

The room was inside a new palliative care center in Lanaudière, a region of Quebec where 13 out of 100 people die through assisted death. That is the highest rate in the province, itself the world leader in assisted deaths, according to Canadian and Quebec government reports. Built with money from private donors and run by the provincial government, the center reflected two elements that have propelled Quebec to the top: assisted death’s integration into the public health care system, and its broad public support.

Since Quebec pioneered assisted dying in Canada in 2015, it has fueled a profound social transformation in the French-speaking province. Choosing to die, on one’s own terms and without suffering, is now seen as an individual right in a society that has rejected the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching that euthanasia is a grave sin.

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“This is a social phenomenon that has grown exponentially,” said Dr. Louis Daigle, an emergency physician in Lanaudière who has administered 662 medically assisted deaths since 2017. “A lot of people now idealize this way of dying, with dignity, so much so that I think there is a belief that there are now two good ways to die: either suddenly or with medically assisted dying.”