Euthanasia soars at alarming rate in Quebec. Are some being illegally killed?

Aug 19, 2023 by Jill

by Jonathon Van Maren, LifeSite:

A 55% increase last year makes medical assistance in dying the third leading cause of death in the province behind heart disease and cancer, and there are no signs of the rate slowing down.

In 2021, a recorded 3,102 people died in Quebec of fatal lethal injections, making it the world’s “euthanasia hotspot.” That number leapt a staggering 55 percent last year to 4,810, meaning that between seven percent and eight percent of all recorded deaths in the province are through euthanasia. Doctor-administered lethal injections are now the leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, and the rate shows no sign of slowing.

Those numbers appear to be alarming even to advocates of the radically permissive euthanasia regime. Dr. Michael Bureau, president of Quebec’s commission “on end-of-life care” (a grotesque euphemism for death-by-doctor), sent out a memo on August 4 that, according to the CBC, reminds “the province’s doctors to closely follow a new law affecting medical aid in dying (MAiD).

The new law, which allows people with “serious and incurable diseases” to apply for euthanasia before their condition deteriorates, passed in June. “Each time there is a modification in the law, there is certain confusion among the physicians providing MAiD,” Bureau stated. “They question, ‘Is it within the boundaries of the law, is it permitted or not? At times, [physicians] don’t really know if they are right or not, and at times they’re not.”

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