StatsCan acknowledges skewing MAID death numbers downward

Statistics Canada acknowledges skewing medical assistance in dying death numbers downward the agency admitted on X formerly known as Twitter to altering the national death statistics by attributing deaths to an underlying condition for which the medically enabled government sanctioned homicide occurred rather than the act of medical assistance and dying itself medical

Assistance and dying is an extremely difficult and personal issue for individuals and families as a government we need to make sure that the framework and the resources are in place for people to make informed uh and uh proper decisions statistics Canada offloaded the blame to the United Nations as

Statistics Canada follows the World Health organization’s means of cataloging deaths which uses attribution to an underlying condition the latest data indicates that there were 10,29 medically assisted deaths in Canada in 2021 that’s an increase of over onethird 34.7% from the 7446 deaths in 2020 medical assistance and dying or made

Accounted for 3.3% of all deaths in Canada in 2021 up from 2.4% of all reported deaths in the previous year but given what we know about how statistics Canada counts the data the numbers are likely far far worse for example the College of Surgeons of Ontario in Canada’s most populous Province advises

Doctors not to record euthanasia as a cause of death in their draft policy look at this when completing the medical certificate of death Physicians Must List the illness disease or disability leading to the request for medical assistance and dying as the cause of death and must not make any reference to

Medical assistance in dying or or the medications administered on the certificate in Canada the underlying condition for which someone can access euthanasia does not have to be fatal or even degenerative for that matter the protocols are limited to quote Grievous and irredeemable medical conditions which include a serious illness a

Disease or disability or an advanced state of decline that cannot be reversed as is the case with just being alive or the applicant may be experiencing quote unbearable physical iCal or mental suffering from their illness disease disability or state of decline that cannot be relieved under conditions that the patient considers acceptable but

This is Canada our rationed Public Health Care system means many people trying to access health care are experiencing quote unacceptable conditions which puts them in quote unbearable physical and mental suffering hip replacements can take up to 18 months here in Alberta the Canadian Institute for health information’s most

Most recent weight Time figures show that just 65% of hip replacements and 59% of knee Replacements were done within the National Standard of six months after consultation with a surgeon meaning many of the people waiting for orthopedic surgery in Canada could qualify for medical assistance in dying under the current regulations Canadians

Have already accessed euthanasia due to homelessness loneliness lockdowns and diabetes veterans have been offered youth in Asia rather than better access to veteran services and it’s only going to get worse for Christine gosier the fight to get a wheelchair lift in her home has been an uphill battle I have to crawl

Down the stairs on my on my butt with the wheelchair in front of me to be able to access my my house while pleading her case to a Veterans Affairs case manager over the phone in 2019 she was told something that would leave her feeling shocked if things are so hard at this

Point and uh you just can’t keep going on and you know we can’t assist you with uh Aid to die because in four short months from now March 2024 people whose only underlying condition is mental illness will be able to qualify for youth in Asia we have heard concerns of

Canadians and experts about whether the Health Care system will be ready to accommodate made requests for persons who so Medical condition is a mental illness by March 17th 2023 to sign the petition calling on the federal government to remove barriers to care rather than offering suicide please visit helpot homicide. for Rebel news

I’m Sheila gri to sign the rebel news petition calling on the federal government to end this culture of death sweeping across Canada go to help not homicide .

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The latest data indicates 10,029 medically assisted deaths in Canada in 2021, an increase of 34.7% from the 7,446 deaths in 2020.

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