Bbc News
@bbcnews·20.1M subscribers·32.9K videos
Has assisted dying in Canada gone too far? | BBC News
Posted
April 4, 2025
Views
51,700
Likes
618
Comments
808
Engagement
2.76%
April 4, 2025
51,700
618
808
2.76%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
6:35Now PlayingIn Canada, assisted dying was made legal nearly a decade ago, and more than 15,000 people a year have a medically-assisted death in the country.
The vast majority of them are terminally ill, and many of them choose to die at home.
Canada now has one of the most liberal systems of assisted dying in the world, similar to that operating in the Netherlands and Belgium.
But, opponents say death is coming to be seen as a standard treatment option for those with disabilities and complex medical problems.
Subscribe here
For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com/news
#Canada #AssistedDying #BBCNews
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
