How many examples? What percentage of patients eligible for MAID receive such treatment?

The only pushing I’m seeing is that by religious people onto non religious people, as usual.

I'm not really surprised. It looks like Canada's healthcare costs are growing exponentially, and are outstripping growth in GDP. These costs are mostly driven by hospitalizations. If a government can carefully promote the message that hospitalization means suffering, suffering is hard, a life with suffering is not worth living, and that relief is quick and easy, then a route is charted to a reduction in healthcare expense. It would certainly help if the large physician organizations are on board, and the nation's major broadcasters lean into euthanasia-friendly messaging.

I have a hard time believe things are going down like, "You have cancer. We can treat it and you'd be fine, but you know what you should do instead? Kill yourself"

On the other hand, I do believe (and want) doctors to be like, "You have cancer. We can treat it and you might get a few more months with very poor quality of life. You may wish to consider these other options"

Eugenics takes many forms—MAID is just the friendlier iteration of it.

I also had family member die recently; he was 95 years old. At 85 he said it was time to go into a home and went and did that for a few years. But at 95 he just decided he was done. He told everyone and then he just stopped eating. Within in a week he was gone.

"We should use a different measure for how to improve healthcare, and not falsely correlate MAID as a failure metric." No this is actually a perfectly legitimate question. Are people choosing to kill themselves due to a lack of available healthcare?

Is the government using assisted suicide as a mechanism to relive a overburdened medical system? Legit questions. Dont dismiss them.

Or maybe you meant religious vs. secular people?

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications...

How else is it supposed to work?

> Some sick people are already depressed and feel like a burden we shouldn't put ideas in their heads.

You sound like you think there isn't an entire system of checks and balances around this but, of course, there is.

You have to have 2 independent medical assessments at a minimum as well as written consent that is witnessed. So its not like you can just say you want to do it and then they just off you right there. She could have had all sorts of reasons for not telling anyone including her sisters. There's nothing in your anecdote that disputes she could have planned it long in advance and just not told anyone.