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August 8, 2018

Can a doctor-assisted death be ‘natural’ and ‘suicide’?

Health Canada reported that across the country there were 1,179, medically assisted deaths between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2017. That’s approximately 0.9 per cent of all deaths, up from 0.6 per cent in the previous six months.

Whenever a doctor assists in a suicide in Ontario by injecting a patient with chemicals to stop the heart, it is recorded on the death certificate as a natural death. 

Published in Canada