Fri Nov 5, 2021 – 10:51 am EDTFri Nov 5, 2021 – 10:52 am EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) — The Sixth annual report from Quebec’s commission on end-of-life care for the year April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021, was submitted (unannounced) to Québec’s parliament, the National Assembly, on October 20, 2021. It was thanks to the Physicians’ Alliance Against Euthanasia that we learned of the report’s release.
The report indicates that there were 2,426 euthanasia deaths, up by 37% over the previous year, representing 3.3% of all deaths.
Quebec is the only province to exercise any public oversight of its euthanasia program. Furthermore, Quebec’s system includes a mechanism that is supposed to verify that doctors submit reports of euthanasia they authorize and perform. The problem is, the number of euthanasia deaths reported by doctors is always less than the total reported by hospitals, institutions, and the College of Physicians of Québec, and the Commission on End-of-life care cannot account for the discrepancy.
On page 11, the Commission reports 2,426 euthanasia were declared by doctors (a 37% increase from 1,776 in the 2019–2020 report). This is the figure used as the official number of MAiD deaths in Québec.
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