Canada is like the Amazon Prime of assisted suicide.
In Canada, you can request a government-sponsored suicide and get killed on the same day!
Now that's government efficiency!
From a report by the Chief Coroner of Ontario's Medical Assistance in Dying Death Review Committee:
So that's 65 same-day government suicides, and 154 that were done the day after the request was made.
Some more context from LifeNews:
Canada's original assisted suicide and euthanasia law, known as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), passed in 2016, required a 10-day waiting period between requesting assisted dying and being given the assistance to end one's life.
The Canadian Parliament removed this requirement for individuals whose deaths were 'reasonably foreseeable' in 2021. There are no specific criteria used to discern whether a same-day suicide should be applicable or not.
Dare I call these "death panels"?
Just look at this paragraph from the report:
Many members identified that barriers to accessing inpatient palliative or hospice care (i.e., prognosis or PPS derived) was a likely factor contributing to the reason for accessing MAiD. Moreover, many members opined that poor quality end-of-life care potentially impacted the request for a brief MAiD provision timeline (i.e., concerns of burnout went unaddressed, advocacy for the necessity of admission to in-patient palliative care or hospice was not evident). Some members expressed their concern that access to MAiD was more easily organized and accessible in this circumstance than the previously requested and preferred option for end-of-life care.
