Winter 2024 Newsletter In addition to our Winter newsletter, this update includes details about our next webinar, the launch of a national Young Ambassador’s network
562 people were deemed eligible of which 78% had cancer.
Despite widespread disinformation, Canadians show overwhelming support for MAID.
In 63% of cases cancer was the terminal condition reported.
Psychiatrists increasingly open to euthanasia.
Between 2003-2023 there was a 9% year increase in UK residents travelling to Switzerland to have assisted dying.
Of those seeking prescriptions, 66% were cancer patients, 11% suffered neurological disease and 10% heart disease.
As many as 3,423 patients sought euthanasia, a 15% from 2022.
Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board finds that the number of deaths from people accessing VAD rose by 11%.
