The Lancet, the noted medical journal, has commented on the “worryingly high number” of assisted suicides in Canada after the expansion of the nation’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD).
The Lancet, one of the oldest and most impactful medical journals in the world, recently published an interview criticising the spread of assisted suicide in Canada, which recorded 10,064 assisted deaths in 2021 alone, as reported by SPUC.
One critic, Professor Trudo Lemmens of the University of Toronto, said: “What was originally conceived as an exceptional practice in medicine has quickly become normalised. Even before the law is set to be expanded to include mentally ill patients, we already have worryingly high numbers of people dying.”
Assisted suicide was legalised in Canada in 2016. Since then, the requirement for an applicant to be terminally ill has been removed. Furthermore, in 2023, MAiD will be extended to the mentally ill.
Professor Lemmens noted the year-on-year rise of such deaths in Canada. Since legalisation in 2016, MAiD has killed 31,664 people in Canada (as of 31 December 2021), with almost a third of these deaths occurring in 2021.
Canadian funeral homes are now offering “dystopian” assisted suicide rooms for individuals to die in, expediting the process from suicide to coffin under one roof, as reported by SPUC.
SPUC comment
A SPUC spokesperson said: “Assisted suicide, which is not medicine, is fast becoming the default response to the challenges of sickness, old age and mental illness in Canada, which is now even concerning The Lancet.
“Canada is so far gone that such chilling methods of human disposal are turning to special suicide rooms to help cope with the increasing numbers of people being ushered into early graves by a horrid ethic of death masquerading as care.
“Finally, the medical community around the world is gradually waking up to the horrors being perpetrated in Canada, standing as a grave warning to us all of where assisted suicide leads if unopposed.”
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