In its first full year in practice, 2,838 patients died by MAID. The most recent government data shows 13,241 Canadians died by MAID in 2022, accounting for 4.1 per cent of all deaths in the country that year.
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They don’t once explain what MAID stands for. Medically Assisted Intentional Death?

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I believe it’s “Medical Assistance In Dying”.

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Thanks

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