{"id":7860,"date":"2017-01-21T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T02:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7860"},"modified":"2018-03-05T18:53:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T02:53:22","slug":"vancouver-island-reports-b-c-s-highest-assisted-death-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7860","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Island reports B.C.&#8217;s highest assisted death rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8216;This is a much more rapid rise than happened in the Netherlands,&#8217; says Island Health doctor<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>CBC News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Deborah Wilson<\/p>\n<p>Six months after medically assisted death became legal in Canada it is proving particularly popular on Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n<p>From June 17, 2016 when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parl.gc.ca\/HousePublications\/Publication.aspx?DocId=8384014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Bill C-14<\/a>\u00a0was enacted to Jan.10 2017, 188 medically assisted deaths were reported to the BC\u00a0Coroners Service.<\/p>\n<p>Of that number, 77 were residents of Vancouver Island, which has\u00a0a population of about 760,000.<\/p>\n<p>It represents two per cent of all deaths on the Island during that time, according to\u00a0Dr. David Robertson, the\u00a0executive lead on medical aid in dying for\u00a0Island Health. . . 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From June 17, 2016 when Bill C-14\u00a0was enacted to Jan.10 2017, 188 medically assisted deaths were reported &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vancouver Island reports B.C.&#8217;s highest assisted death rate&#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":[77,32,162,9],"tags":[561,3047],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-news","tag-british-columbia","tag-david-robertson"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Vancouver Island reports B.C.&#039;s highest assisted death rate - 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=7860\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vancouver Island reports B.C.&#039;s highest assisted death rate - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8216;This is a much more rapid rise than happened in the Netherlands,&#8217; says Island Health doctor CBC News Deborah Wilson Six months after medically assisted death became legal in Canada it is proving particularly popular on Vancouver Island. 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