Helen Yrmom
· 1w
It’s actually fucked up tho.
In 2024, the most recent year with complete data, 16,499 people received Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada, representing 5.1% of all deaths nationwide.
There's quite a bit of important nuance there and disingenuous to make it sound like 5% of all deaths are just normal people asking to die. Nearly 96% of them are terminally ill or imminently going to die, with an average age of 78, and high instance of cancer. There's patients all the time all over the us and world receiving drugs to make them comfortable that ultimately reduce their cardiac output to levels unsustainable with life, and that's not labeled the same as maid.