Assisted suicide, sold as compassionate, becomes monstrous in Canada
September 03, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Nicholas Tomaino examines the rise of assisted suicide to “at least the fifth-leading cause of death in Canada, claiming a reported 13,241 lives in 2022, up from 1,018 in 2016.”
“In 2022 more than 81% of petitions resulted in death, including for ‘vision/hearing loss’ and ‘diabetes,’” Tomaino writes. “The percentage of denied written requests has been falling for years, from 8% in 2019 to 3.5% in 2022, even as the number of applications has increased. The upshot has been that 44,958 people have been put to death between 2016-22.”
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