Would it surprise you to learn that more than 10,000 Canadians were put to death by their doctors last year?
A number of countries — and a few American states — permit some form of assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, but Canada is one of only a handful that have legalized euthanasia. Medical practitioners are permitted to use drugs to end the lives of patients who are suffering, even those who are not immediately terminal.
Earlier this month, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat described the situation north of our border in "What Euthanasia Has Done to Canada.” Douthat, a political conservative and committed Catholic, is emphatic: he calls euthanasia barbaric, evil and destructive, a way station on the road to a “dystopian future” that has already arrived in Canada.
