The legalization of medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Canada has led to disproportionately high rates of premature deaths among vulnerable groups, according to a recent Cardus Health report.

Canada’s MAID law, which expanded the right to die to people without a terminal illness, raises ethical and medical dilemmas. By Katie Engelhart In 2023, one out of 20 Canadians who died received a ...

In Canada, physician-assisted suicide is available even to people who aren’t suffering from terminal illnesses. In the context of austerity, this often means people are offered death rather than the ...

Cardus Health, an organization that aims to foster a social system that supports natural death and helps institutions care for patients approaching the end of life, conducted the report. According to ...