5% of Canadians now choose euthanasia
One in 20 deaths in Canada are the result of Medical Assistance in Dying, the country’s legalized euthanasia. Elaina Plott Calabro, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why the MAID law has made medically assisted death more common than Alzheimer’s and diabetes deaths combined, why that’s taken advocates by surprise, and why patients say they prefer to die in this manner. Her article is “Canada Is Killing Itself.”
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