More people, per capita, are dying with medical assistance (MAID) in Quebec than anywhere else in the world, according to Quebec’s commission on end-of-life care.
Since the start of the pandemic, requests for the procedure have more than doubled — from 1,774 in 2019-2020 to 3,663 in 2021-22.
The increase means the percentage of people who chose MAID in Quebec is greater than in Belgium and the Netherlands, where it has been legal for decades. It has been legal in Quebec since 2015.
