Sept. 2, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| In 2016, Canada legalized euthanasia nationwide, and this was in response to a court decision. | |
| And that's largely how the changes have happened, not so much through public conversation, but through the courts. | |
| And so what happened was the government had a deadline to create a law that essentially legalized euthanasia across the board. | |
| And of course, as it always begins, euthanasia, or as it has become known, medical aid in dying, was officially and initially for persons whose deaths were deemed reasonably foreseeable. | |
| Of course, all of our deaths are reasonably foreseeable, but sort of more in an immediate sense. | |
| In an imminent sense, maybe, and not with a specific time horizon. | |
| So reasonably foreseeable with grievous and irremediable condition. | |
| That's how it was ushered in. | |
| And since then, euthanasia has become a leading cause of death in Canada. | |
| Euthanasia in Canada now accounts for one in twenty deaths. | |
| And so as a Canadian, there's almost not a day that goes by that I don't hear a personal story of how this is touching people. | |
| Many people know someone who has been euthanized or who is thinking about it. | |
| And so this marks a massive cultural shift in how we live and die in Canada. | |
| Many people are sensing a loss of meaning as they approach the end of their life. | |
| And that's what the government's own data bears out. | |
| Each year, the government asks people about the kind of suffering leading to the request. | |
| And while people may be living with a terminal illness or disability or perhaps with ALS or dementia. | |
| And yet when asked what kind of suffering leads them to request, made, the number one kind of suffering by people's own admission is a loss of ability to engage in meaningful life activities. |
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