Reasons patients were ineligible for medically assisted death Canada 2022

In 2022, around 41 percent of patients who were ineligible for medically assisted death in Canada and whose natural death was reasonably foreseeable were not capable of making decisions with respect to their health. This statistic shows the distribution of reasons patients were ineligible for medically assisted deaths in Canada in 2022.

Distribution of reasons patients were ineligible for medically assisted death in Canada in 2022

Characteristic	Natural Death is Reasonably Foreseeable	Natural Death is Not Reasonably Foreseeable
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October 2023

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Canada

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

"This chart represents MAID deaths where the report was received by Health Canada by January 31, 2023. For 2022, this represents 16,104 written MAID requests, including 560 individuals deemed ineligible for MAID. This chart combines MAID provisions for individuals where natural death was reasonably foreseeable (283) and for individuals natural death was not reasonably foreseeable (204)." Adapted from Statistics Canada, Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada 2022, page 50, 2022. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

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