On Wednesday of last week, a special joint committee of the Canadian Parliament released a landmark report that may save tens of thousands of lives from succumbing to medical assistance in dying (MAID).
The 88-page report to the government examined an expansion of Canada’s decade-old assisted suicide laws to allow the practice to be carried out on individuals whose sole reason for seeking it is mental illness. The report comes as Canada has reached a major milestone in the application of its evolving MAID law — at the 10-year point, Canada has carried out 100,000 MAID-induced deaths, and assisted suicide has become the nation’s fifth leading cause of death, amounting to some 45 deaths a day.
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