FIRST READING: Canada likely to mark 100,000th MAID death by summer

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FIRST READING: Canada likely to mark 100,000th MAID death by summer

More Canadians are dying from assisted suicide each year than all the world's other countries combined

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FIRST READING: Canada likely to mark 100,000th MAID death by summer Back to video

Just as Canada approaches the 10th anniversary of legal assisted suicide, the country is on course to soon record 100,000 total deaths from Medical Assistance in Dying.

This means that in addition to now charting MAID as one of its leading causes of death, Canada will also become the first country of the modern era to measure its total euthanasia deaths in the six figures.

The 100,000 figure has recently been popularized by Canadian anti-MAID activist Kelsi Sheren. She stated in a recent op-ed that her country is “about to kill its 100,000th citizen through Medical Assistance in Dying.”

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