More Canadians are taking advantage of the nation’s expanding assisted suicide system, with more than 5 percent of deaths occurring from the practice.
The Canadian government issued a report in late November that said more than 22,500 people requested assisted suicide in 2024.
Of those requests, about 16,500 went through with assisted suicide.
About 4,000 ultimately died of another cause in 2024, while 700 withdrew their assisted suicide request that year.
Only 1,300 were deemed ineligible for assisted suicide.
Overall, about 5.1 percent of Canadians who died in 2024 perished after receiving assisted suicide, officially known as “Medical Assistance in Dying.”
That’s a 0.4 percentage point increase from 2023.
There have been over 76,000 assisted suicide provisions since it became legal in 2016, according to the report.
The rate of growth is slowing for assisted suicide, but the practice still expanded by nearly 6.9 percent in 2024.
Alicia had less than 48 hours' notice that her mother was going to end her life using Canada's euthanasia programme.
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