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Canadian doctors are starting to regret euthanizing their non-terminally ill patients.

Yeah, kinda one of those too little, too late situations…

An investigation by the Associated Press revealed internal data from the provincial government in Ontario showing doctors in online forums, both public and private, struggling with the Country’s expansion of its MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) program.

Some doctors, who shared their thoughts anonymously, posted about their inner conflict with performing these procedures on patients who don’t meet the traditional definition of terminally ill.

Many physicians involved in assisted dying say the loosening criteria is “morally distressing.”

Since Canada expanded MAID laws in 2021 to include individuals with incurable but non-terminal illnesses, assisted deaths jumped by 30% in 2022. As a result, Canada has euthanized so many people that it “outpaces every other nation in the world.”

The AP investigation reported on several online posts written by doctors about their guilt of killing or helping patients die. These cases included a homeless man who didn’t want long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, an injured worker barely getting by on government aid, and grieving new widows.

Each case has stirred up private debates among doctors and nurses, who find themselves wrestling with the ethics of one of the world’s most lenient euthanasia laws.

Another recent report by the National Post highlights a (what should be obvious) misuse of MAID. It involves a man in his 40s with a history of mental illness who chose assisted death due to his physical decline, which he attributed to post-COVID-19 “vaccination syndrome.”

And no, there is no such thing as “post-vaccine syndrome” listed in Canada’s vaccine reporting system for adverse events. The term is controversial, and specialists couldn’t agree on a diagnosis, raising doubts about whether his condition met the “irremediable” standard.

But they killed him anyway.

When Canada first legalized assisted dying in 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised safeguards to protect vulnerable people from choosing euthanasia just “because you’re not getting the support and care you actually need.”

Now, those most vulnerable people are the ones using the program.

One of the private forums showed a physician saying,

I don’t want (euthanasia) to become the solution to every kind of suffering out there.

Krista Carr, executive VP of the nonprofit Inclusion Canada, says she often hears from people with disabilities who’ve been offered euthanasia. She mentioned one case where a disabled woman’s physiotherapist suggested medically assisted suicide after she came in for help with a bruised hip.

Our response to the intolerable suffering of people with disabilities is: ‘Your life is not worth living.’ We’ll just offer them the lethal injection, and we’ll offer it readily.

The posts in these online forums clearly show that even doctors don’t know how to approach MAID. The requests they receive aren’t anything they are trained for – they are not about real medical illnesses but rather personal and social problems.

Here’s another one:

I have great discomfort with the idea of MAiD being driven by social circumstances. I don’t have a good solution to social deprivation either, so I feel pretty useless when I receive requests like this.

Obesity, depression, poverty, or even made-up syndromes are all things that can be fixed. And I bet the government who says they are there to help and protect these types of people can do a lot more rather than end their lives.

It’s truly sad.

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