We have all heard the stereotype: Canadians are the nicest people in the world. They are unfailingly polite, they are patient, they are kind, and they are always there for others. Canada has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms and strict laws against hate speech. They care so much about the health of others that they have universal, single-payer health care for all Canadians. No one is ever turned away, because they could never bring themselves to deny healthcare to others—that is, until these tender-hearted Canadians decide that some people are becoming a burden to their family and society. Then, these compassionate Canadians turn to the most radical system of euthanasia in the world.
Promising to provide a painless death to all who request it following the Supreme Court decision in Carter v. Canada, Canadians have had access to state-sponsored euthanasia since 2015. Claiming that laws prohibiting assistance in dying “interfere with liberty by constraining the ability of individuals to make decisions concerning their bodily integrity and medical care,” the Canadian Court also held that “the laws deprive some people of life by forcing them to take their own lives prematurely for fear that they would be incapable of doing so when they reached a point where their suffering was intolerable.”
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