Death Without Dignity - The American Conservative

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : Canadian leaders view euthanasia as a positive good.
47% : It also established an "expert review panel" to study whether mental patients and "mature minors" should be made eligible for assisted suicide in the future.
46% : In the years since euthanasia was legalized, the number of Canadians taking lethal injections has increased almost fourfold.
43% : But that is not an argument for legalizing euthanasia, and in fact strengthens the force of the argument against it.
42% : Euthanasia coerces the disabled and terminally ill to die to minimize the financial and emotional burdens to their families.
39% : The Canadian supreme court agreed, and in 2016 struck down a national law that deemed assisted suicide a form of homicide.
39% :Euthanasia is not bad only because of the potential slippery slope, and the possibility that children of a first-world country will be considered potential candidates for assisted suicide.
39% : One of the most commonly cited reasons among those in Canada who elect for assisted suicide is the inability to engage in meaningful activities.
37% : This month the AP reported on several Canadians who were either euthanized or pressured to consider euthanasia under Canada's recently liberalized assisted suicide law.
37% : In 2014, the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association alleged that the national ban on euthanasia violated the country's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
36% : Last year, more than 10,000 people died by euthanasia in Canada, which accounts for more than 3 percent of the total deaths recorded nationally in 2021.

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