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As the last jolts of the summer end, there are many indications that this fall will be hot with respect to the issue of euthanasia in Quebec.

August ended with the official opening of the Superior Court lawsuit in which two people living with a disability are challenging the federal and provincial laws to eliminate the “end of life” and “reasonably foreseeable death” criteria.

At that first meeting, Living with Dignity and the Physicians’ Alliance Against Euthanasia told ...

Continue Reading → Wrong questions give wrong answers

During the month of July, some media reported confidently and eagerly that euthanasia requests had decreased during the last 6 months in Quebec. According to their analysis, this decrease would be contrary to the trend observed in other countries that legalized death on demand before us. But is that correct? Not quite, actually. Several points need to be clarified and corrected in these fast-paced statements.

First, the available data are still partial: only 20 of the 28 institutions have published their data ...

Continue Reading → Jumping to conclusions with partial data

When 'safeguards' become 'barriers to access'.

A new chorus of “rebels” is decrying the cruelty of all criteria that dare make reference to the proximity of death. Yet not so long ago, the elected Members of the National Assembly in Quebec (MNAs) were congratulating themselves on the wisdom of their law that made reference to… the end of life. This is another reversal of logic in the long list of changes of rhetoric we have already witnessed.

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Continue Reading → Euthanasia: the slippery slope sold as desired progress

In light of the events of last month, it seems that requests to extend euthanasia do not take holidays.

In Quebec, barely a month after the publication of a letter by the secretary of the College of Physicians – in which he expressed his concern about a growing “pressure demanding a form of death à la carte” and in which he denounced those who interpret refusals of euthanasia as a form of exclusion – lawyer Jean-Pierre Ménard is challenging before ...

Continue Reading → Expected extensions require court approval