{"id":14893,"date":"2025-12-03T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14893"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:09:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:09:02","slug":"canada-set-new-record-euthanizes-16449-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=14893","title":{"rendered":"Canada set new record &#8211; euthanizes 16,449 in 2024."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>So, in Canada depression is an acceptable reason to be euthanized. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2025\/12\/01\/canada-euthanized-a-record-16499-patients-in-2024\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2025\/12\/01\/canada-euthanized-a-record-16499-patients-in-2024\/\">According to the latest\u00a0report\u00a0on \u201cmedical assistance in dying\u201d (MAiD) from Health Canada released at the end of last month, there was a 6.9% increase in state-assisted deaths in Canada in 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"304\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/euthanasia-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/euthanasia-4.jpg 304w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/euthanasia-4-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2024, although assisted suicide is permitted, in which the person who wishes to end their own life self-administers the lethal substance, there was not a single case of assisted suicide. Instead, every single person who died under Canada\u2019s MAiD programme died by euthanasia. In 2023, there were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/services\/publications\/health-system-services\/annual-report-medical-assistance-dying-2023.html#:~:text=MAID%20was%20administered%20by%20a%20practitioner%20in%20nearly%20all%20cases.%20In%202023%2C%20MAID%20was%20self%2Dadministered%20in%20fewer%20than%20five%20instances.%20While%20self%2Dadministration%20of%20MAID%20is%20permitted%20in%20all%20jurisdictions%20in%20Canada%20(except%20for%20Quebec)%2C%20very%20few%20people%20have%20chosen%20this%20option%20since%202016.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fewer<\/a>&nbsp;than five instances of assisted suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/services\/publications\/health-system-services\/annual-report-medical-assistance-dying-2024.html#a2.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">total<\/a>&nbsp;of 76,475 instances of euthanasia and assisted suicide since they were made legal in Canada in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the factors recorded by medical practitioners as part of a person\u2019s application for euthanasia in 2024, 75.5% of people cited \u201closs of independence\u201d, a significant increase from 2023, when 52.2% cited \u201closs of independence\u201d. 48.5% of all those who died by euthanasia cited being a \u201cperceived burden on family, friends or caregivers\u201d. Among those whose natural death was not reasonably foreseeable (Track 2), over half (50.3%) were concerned about being a burden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, 58.1% of those who died by euthanasia in Canada in 2024 cited emotional \u201cdistress\/anxiety\/fear\/existential suffering\u201d, a 19.8 percentage point increase on the number of people who cited this end-of-life concern in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over a fifth of people (22.9%) who died by euthanasia in Canada in 2024 had \u201cisolation or loneliness\u201d recorded by a medical practitioner in their application for euthanasia. Significantly, 44.7% of those on Track 2, whose deaths were not reasonably foreseeable, experienced isolation or loneliness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, in Canada depression is an acceptable reason to be euthanized. According to the latest\u00a0report\u00a0on \u201cmedical assistance in dying\u201d (MAiD) from Health Canada released at the end of last month, there was a 6.9% increase in state-assisted deaths in Canada in 2024. In 2024, although assisted suicide is permitted, in which the person who wishes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consistent-ethic-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14895,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14893\/revisions\/14895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}