FILE – A screen displays a patient’s vital signs during open heart surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore on Nov. 28, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Patrick Semansky
By The Canadian Press
Nov 28, 2025 | 11:23 AM
OTTAWA — A majority of the people who died with medical assistance in Canada in 2024 had a cancer diagnosis, new data shows.
Health Canada’s annual report on medical assistance in dying shows that more Canadians are choosing assisted dying each year, but the rate of growth has slowed.
Overall, about five per cent of the people who died in Canada in 2024 had a medically assisted death.
The median age of those who chose MAID was 78.