Not that surprising given how big our aging boomer demographic is. This was my father two years ago who had fought a year long battle with cancer before deciding to go with MAID. He was already hospitalized in palliative care and it may have only saved him a day or two more of suffering. In fact after how rough his final night was, I wish he had been able to let go a day earlier.

That is the neat part, it does not!

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/healthy-living/suicide-canada-key-statistics-infographic.html

so 4500 "suicides" vs the articles above 15,300 people. I don't think 15,300 is a subset of 4500.

There's a huge push from the right that this is unethical to offer it in the first place and that soon we are just going to let people euthanize themselves instead of "treating" them. I mean, i don't want people to do this either, but who are we to force a choice onto someone?

One step at the time.

Making euthanasia legal for people with terminal illness is already hard enough and I'm glad it is now possible in a lot of countries.

There were issues early on and people who shouldn't have been offered the option, got offered the option.