A Canadian woman was approved to have her life ended by euthanasia after becoming unable to cook for her family, feeling that she had lost her value to them, according to new revelations from Canadian doctors.
The case came to light after two doctors from the University of Toronto, Gary Rodin and Madeline Li, wrote for the New York Times about their fears that assisted suicide and euthanasia have become too commonplace in Canada.
The eligibility criteria for Canada’s assisted suicide and euthanasia programme have rapidly expanded since the original legislation was passed in 2016. In 2021, the Canadian Parliament repealed the requirement that the natural death of those applying for assisted suicide be “reasonably foreseeable”, introducing a new pathway for people whose deaths were not “reasonably foreseeable”, known as Track 2.
