Two trends in Quebec
Quebecers turn up among the happiest people on the planet, and Josh Freed asks how we do it.
But at the same time, a lot more of us choose medical aid in dying than most places. La Presse asks why.
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MarcG 10:21 on 2026-04-05 Permalink
Anyone know how to find all of the provincial data?
Michael Slinn 10:43 on 2026-04-05 Permalink
When medical treatment is scarce and wait times stretch into months and years, people who are suffering will choose death over interminable pain.
bob 11:16 on 2026-04-06 Permalink
People always have, but they have done it themselves, often if not usually without the medical assistance. I think we’d be surprised if someone figured out how to identify all the cases of “so and so died peacefully in their sleep (after taking all the medication they had secretly hoarded)” and such like. MAID removes risk and adds some dignity.
Perhaps in some strange way the foregrounding of quality of life will make it (quality of life) more of a political issue.
Ian 17:04 on 2026-04-06 Permalink
Lots of people are just handed the morphine button when it’s clear they are far enough gone.