Canuck: The FedEx of Assisted Suicide
Here’s a ghoulish statistic from Ontario’s “Medical Assistance in Dying” program: In 2023, more than 200 people who applied to the program were dead within 36 hours. For 65 people, the state program provided same-day service.
The chilling efficiency of Ontario’s death service contrasts sharply with nearly any other government program you might care to name—particularly in the field of medicine. If you show up at the hospital in pain, suffering from a condition that will require a surgical procedure, you can expect to wait days, or weeks, or even months before you are taken to the operating room.
(Between June 1980 and March 1981, a spree of murders struck SickKids hospital. Over the course of several nights, thirty-six babies and infants died, many of them due to an overdose of digoxin, a drug used to control heartbeats and often used for assisted suicide in the United States. A judge confirmed that at least five of those deaths were murders (though the defense believed the number was closer to seventeen), and yet the judge at the preliminary hearings absolved the only suspect, a pediatric nurse. No one else was ever charged, despite statistical evidence from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that tied another nurse to the deaths.)
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