Government deciding life or death? What could possibly go wrong??!!-----Assisted Suicide In Canada

Like most such laws - sometimes referred to as "death with dignity" laws - the initial sell is based on giving terminally ill people with no hope of recovery and a dubious quality of life to punch their ticket out of this life with a little help from their doctor. - Mitch Berg

It seems pretty gauzy on the "brochure" version...

Of course, the Canadian definition of "terminal illness" encompassed mental illness - leading to a series of Kafkaesque cases of therapy culture run amok:

April Hubbard sits on the theatre stage where she plans to die later this year.

She is not terminally ill, but the 39-year-old performance and burlesque artist has been approved for assisted dying under Canada's increasingly liberal laws...April plans to be in a "big comfy bed" for what she calls a "celebratory" moment when a medical professional will inject a lethal dose into her bloodstream...

The program has been...er, successful, I suppose, after a fashion:

Since legalization, the number of euthanasia deaths in Canada has steadily grown every year and showed little sign of slowing down. Between 2016 and 2023, over 60,000 Canadians have been euthanized, with over 15,000 in 2023 alone. Euthanasia now accounts for 4.7% of all deaths in the country...