MAID Increasingly Used as Alternative to Health Care in Canada, Activist Says

MAID Increasingly Used as Alternative to Health Care in Canada, Activist Says

LINCOLN, Ont.—A Canadian activist against euthanasia says the procedure is increasingly being used as a solution to address gaps in health care and mental health services, criticizing Canada’s ever-expanding medical assistance in dying (MAID) regime. “I think that euthanasia and assisted suicide are basically the cynical solution to everything that ails us. Palliative beds are really expensive—body bags are not,” said Jonathon Van Maren, author…