Canadian veteran offered assisted suicide after asking for wheelchair help

Christine Gauthier testified before Canada’s House of Commons veterans committee last week that she was shocked when the VAC employee offered her assisted suicide as a solution to her suffering. Lawrence MacAulay, minister of VAC, said before the same committee last week that four or five instances of veterans being offered assisted suicide as an option have occurred, cbc.ca reported. Assisted suicide in Canada was federally legalized in 2016, according to the government’s annual report on the program. Each year since its legalization, every Canadian province has seen a rise in assisted suicide, which is euphemistically coined “Medical Assistance in Dying.”Since its legalization, almost 32,000 deaths have occurred through assisted suicide. In a Saturday column for the New York Times, Ross Douthat criticized Canada’s assisted suicide policy.