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Canada’s MAID policy is facilitating death by poverty | Ricochet (ricochet.media)
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[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

While I agree that MAID isn't the problem and is a good thing to have, suicides didn't drop significantly when it was introduced. It doesn't appear that these people were actually killing themselves on their own before and now replacing it through MAID.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/437713/suicide-numbers-canada/

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