Around 15,300 people underwent assisted dying last year, accounting for 4.7% of deaths in the country. Canada lawmakers are ...

The rate of medical assistance in dying - also known as euthanasia - has grown in Canada for the fifth straight year, albeit ...

According to data released Wednesday by Health Canada​, about 4.7% of Canadians who died in 2023 received MAID, or Medical ...

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The number of people seeking medically assisted dying in Canada continued to rise last year, but the rate of growth slowed, government data show.1 Figures for 2023 show that 19 660 Canadians requested ...

Health Canada’s fifth annual medical assistance in dying report reveals that MAID accounted for nearly 1 in 20 deaths in the ...

Atul Subhash, the 34-year-old deputy general manager of a private firm, died by suicide earlier this month in his Bengaluru ...

Assisted dying continued to have the highest usage rate in Quebec, which accounted for nearly 37% of all euthanasia deaths, despite the province holding just 22% of Canada's population.

In 2023, about five per cent of Dutch deaths were due to euthanasia, just ahead of Canada’s 4.7 per cent. But as detailed below, Canada’s growth rate is way higher than the Netherlands.