If trends continue as they have been, Canada will soon become the first country in the world to see 100,000 of its own people die by committing assisted suicide.
Although it’s legal under the MAID law (“Medical Assistance in Dying”), it’s highly controversial, as you would expect. The law specifically excludes healthy people who just want to die because of depression or other mental issues, but due to Bill C-7, that exclusion is set to expire in 2027 and would need to be renewed for it to remain in effect.
Canadian anti-MAID activist Kelsi Sheren says that euthanasia is fast climbing up the list of “cause of death” numbers in our Northern neighbor. In 2023, one in 20 deaths was attributed to legally assisted suicide.
Sheren appeared on the Real Talk with Zuby podcast in February and expressed her concerns:
Over 100,000 people have now been killed through Canada's 'MAID' programme.
— ZUBY: (@ZubyMusic) February 13, 2026
I had an eye opening (but disturbing) conversation with @KelsiBurns about what is going on over there. 🇨🇦
This week on the Real Talk with Zuby podcast. pic.twitter.com/wKLPB8iV5Y
Some of what she had to say was jaw-dropping:
The individuals that are utilizing the MAID death program are 96 percent white Canadians.
They encourage your whole family to watch the procedure happen, which is also really dark, really horrific, including children. And then you realize why, and you realize it saves an awful lot of money. $1.273 trillion.
That's enough of an incentive for a government to continue the program. Forget the morality. Forget how much they're making off of organs, which is a whole different podcast on its own. Over 80 percent of patients that get killed with this program have heavy lungs, which can only indicate two things — death by waterboarding, or death by drowning. The drugs are non FDA approved for killing.
We don't know how they work, so that's Canada in a nutshell, and Canada feels too far gone.
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The numbers are large and continuing to grow:
In Health Canada’s most recent update on MAID deaths, the agency stated that 76,475 Canadians had died via assisted suicide as of Dec. 31, 2024.
At the time of the report, new MAID deaths were coming in at a rate of 45 per day; the annual number of deaths charted in 2024 came to 16,499. Thus, even if MAID approvals have plateaued in the interim months, Canada would be on track to pass its 100,000th MAID death by the first week of June.
Although there are other countries that allow the practice, Canada is by far and away the leader in terms of people ending their lives:
In 2020, for instance, MAID deaths grew by 36.8 per cent in just one year, surging from 5,461 to 7,451. The next year, they surged by 34.8 per cent, rising to 9,842.
In just 10 years, Canada may already be on track to record more annual deaths from doctor-assisted suicide than the totals of every other world jurisdiction with some form of legal doctor-assisted suicide.
There are 10 countries with legal euthanasia as of Feb., 2025, with most posting modest rates of growth and aggregate euthanasia deaths of only a few hundred.
Naturally, Great Britain is struggling with the issue too:
A patron of a pro-assisted suicide lobby group backing the assisted suicide Bill has said that people with depression and people with disabilities should be legally offered assistance in suicide🤦 Read the full article here: https://t.co/XQPwWulQKL pic.twitter.com/IGeti36CIX
— Right To Life UK (@RightToLifeUK) November 22, 2024
The subject of legalized self-assisted suicide brings up strong emotions. Those who have seen loved ones slowly waste away into pain and despair due to an incurable disease know how devastating it is for the patient and the entire family. Those who believe that suicide is a moral (and/or religious) outrage argue that such decisions are in God’s hands, not mere mortals.
If Canada does eventually allow people who are experiencing mental health struggles — and are not terminally ill — then the floodgates could open even more.
Dutch woman Zoraya ter Beek, 29, dies by assisted suicide despite being physically healthy, citing severe mental health issues.
— BoreCure (@CureBore) June 2, 2024
Netherlands' laws surrounding euthanasia allow individuals to choose death if they experience 'unbearable suffering' with no prospect of improvement. pic.twitter.com/70IrlJPvXj
It’s likely to remain a contentious issue here and around the world. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Medical Aid in Dying Act in February, joining 13 states that have legalized assisted suicide in one form or another.
It’s one thing to talk about the end-of-life choices faced by terminally ill, rapidly declining patients. You get the feeling, however, that in the not-too-distant future, a depressed young person could walk into a clinic in Canada or the Netherlands and say, “I’m having a bad day. I want to kill myself.”
And they’ll say, “Okay. Let’s get started.”
