Tue Feb 1, 2022 – 3:42 pm EST
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) – The Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario releases Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) data on a monthly basis. The 2021 euthanasia data indicates that there were 3,102 assisted deaths up from 2,378 in 2020, representing a more than 30% increase.
The December 2021 data showed a significant increase of 59% with 298 reported euthanasia deaths. To give you a comparison there were 188 reported Ontario euthanasia deaths in December 2020.
On July 1 last year, I published data from Health Canada’s 2020 annual report on (MAiD) euthanasia and assisted suicide.
It was predicted that Bill C-7, which passed in March 2021, would lead to a 20% increase in the number of assisted deaths. Recent Ontario data indicates that this prediction was an underestimate, as there were 3,102 assisted deaths in 2021 up from 2,378 in 2020. The jump in assisted deaths represents more than a 30% increase.
A further analysis indicates that the growth in killing by lethal injection is actually worse. According to the data, in the first half of 2021 there were 1,363 assisted deaths, up from 1,127 in the first half of 2020 or a
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