{"id":7584,"date":"2017-10-10T13:01:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T20:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7584"},"modified":"2018-03-03T21:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:00:01","slug":"canadas-summer-of-discontent-euthanasia-practitioners-warn-of-nationwide-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7584","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s summer of discontent: euthanasia practitioners warn of nationwide &#8220;crisis&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Shortage of euthanasia practitioners &#8220;a real problem&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"author\">Sean Murphy<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/authors.aspx#Sean_Murphy\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were 803 euthanasia\/assisted suicide (EAS) deaths in Canada during the first six months after the procedures were legalized. In the second half of the first year (ending in June, 2017) there were 1,179 \u2014 a 46.8% increase, and about 0.9% of all deaths. Health Canada correctly states that the latter figure falls within the range found in other jurisdictions where euthanasia\/assisted suicide are legal, but the Canadian EAS death rate in the first year was not reached by Belgium for seven to eight years. The dramatic increase of EAS deaths in the last half of the first year would have had a direct impact on EAS practitioners, and this may be why they ended the first year by sounding the alarm about access to the service. . . .[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consciencelaws.org\/background\/\/procedures\/assist026.aspx\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortage of euthanasia practitioners &#8220;a real problem&#8221; Sean Murphy* There were 803 euthanasia\/assisted suicide (EAS) deaths in Canada during the first six months after the procedures were legalized. In the second half of the first year (ending in June, 2017) there were 1,179 \u2014 a 46.8% increase, and about 0.9% of all deaths. Health Canada &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7584\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Canada&#8217;s summer of discontent: euthanasia practitioners warn of nationwide &#8220;crisis&#8221;&#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":[77,32,4,162],"tags":[2587,572,509,1412,2713,2149],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-commentary","category-euthanasia","tag-canadian-association-of-maid-assessors-and-providers-camap","tag-canadian-medical-association","tag-holly-fernandez-lynch","tag-james-downar","tag-jeff-blackmer","tag-shanaaz-gokool"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Canada&#039;s summer of discontent: euthanasia practitioners warn of nationwide &quot;crisis&quot; - 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=7584\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Canada&#039;s summer of discontent: euthanasia practitioners warn of nationwide &quot;crisis&quot; - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shortage of euthanasia practitioners &#8220;a real problem&#8221; Sean Murphy* There were 803 euthanasia\/assisted suicide (EAS) deaths in Canada during the first six months after the procedures were legalized. 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