{"id":7266,"date":"2017-10-03T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T18:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7266"},"modified":"2018-03-03T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:01:07","slug":"quebec-euthanasia-rate-on-track-to-meet-projected-estimate-by-end-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7266","title":{"rendered":"Quebec euthanasia rates on track to match Belgian 7-8 year rates after 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author\">Sean Murphy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Sean_Murphy\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Available\u00a0statistics indicate that Quebec is on track to reach\u00a0euthanasia\u00a0rates\u00a0\u00a0after two years that correspond to Belgian rates after\u00a0seven to eight years (i.e., per 100,000 population and as a percentage of deaths from all causes).<\/p>\n<p>Not all Quebec euthanasia statistics have been made public.\u00a0 However, the following points appear to be of interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost 20 requests for euthanasia were made weekly in the province in the first half of 2017, slightly higher than the last half of 2016.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of requests that did <em>not<\/em> result in euthanasia increased slightly from about 37% to 40%\n<ul>\n<li>Increases in this category, when reported, were attributed mainly to patients becoming incompetent, dying or withdrawing their requests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Project&#8217;s analysis is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/background\/\/procedures\/assist017.aspx\">Euthanasia Statistics: Quebec<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Murphy* Available\u00a0statistics indicate that Quebec is on track to reach\u00a0euthanasia\u00a0rates\u00a0\u00a0after two years that correspond to Belgian rates after\u00a0seven to eight years (i.e., per 100,000 population and as a percentage of deaths from all causes). Not all Quebec euthanasia statistics have been made public.\u00a0 However, the following points appear to be of interest: Almost 20 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7266\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quebec euthanasia rates on track to match Belgian 7-8 year rates after 2 years&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,162,9],"tags":[410,2512],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-news","tag-quebec","tag-statistics"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Quebec euthanasia rates on track to match Belgian 7-8 year rates after 2 years - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7266\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quebec euthanasia rates on track to match Belgian 7-8 year rates after 2 years - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sean Murphy* Available\u00a0statistics indicate that Quebec is on track to reach\u00a0euthanasia\u00a0rates\u00a0\u00a0after two years that correspond to Belgian rates after\u00a0seven to eight years (i.e., per 100,000 population and as a percentage of deaths from all causes). 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