Vancouver doctor has killed more than 400 people by euthanasia also supports MAiD for mental illness.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Ellen Wiebe

A Vancouver doctor who operates a euthanasia clinic has killed more than 400 people since legalization.

A recent article promoting euthanasia for mental illness alone states that Dr Ellen Wiebe has killed more than 400 people by euthanasia for physical reasons and she also supports euthanasia for mental illness alone.

The article attempts to be balanced by interviewing Psychiatrist Dr John Maher who wants the government to review euthanasia for mental illness alone. The article reports:

Dr. John Maher

"I had a patient who talked to me recently about MAiD who wants to die because he believes no one will ever love him," Dr Maher told W5.

He said that colleagues have shared similar stories of patients in their care, enquiring about how to stop therapy and qualify one for assisted death.

“The wait times for our treatment programmes in Ontario are up to five years,” Maher said.

Various studies also confirm that there are long waits for mental healthcare across Canada.

"There are cycles of illness. Some of it's up and down. It might be years. And then there is a burst of illness and suffering that we then take care of,” Maher said.

He says that MAiD for mental illness, is too close to suicide for his comfort.

“You're assisting someone in the completion of their suicide. The doctor is the sanitised gun," he said.

One of his key concerns is how anyone can determine if someone with a mental illness is incurable, as is required by the legislation.

"I'm not at all disagreeing that there are people who have an irremediable illness. What I defy you or any other person in the universe to prove to me is that it's this person in front of you.”

Recently Canada's Justice Minister told a Toronto Star reporter that he supports euthanasia for mental illness because MAiD is a more humane death than suicide.

Links to more stories of the euthanasia experience in Canada:

• Veterans affairs worker advocates euthanasia for PTSD (Link).
• Canadian man claims that he was pressured to request euthanasia (Link).
  
• Why did they kill my brother (Link).
  
• Manitoba woman died by euthanasia based on inadequate home care (Link).
• Quebec man seeks euthanasia based on changes to home care (Link). 
• Alberta man requests euthanasia based on poverty (Link).
• Ontario man approved for euthanasia because he can't get medical treatment (Link).
• Shopping for doctor death in Canada (Link).
• Gwen is seeking euthanasia because she can't access medical treatment (Link).
• Euthanasia for disability and poverty (Link).
• Euthanasia for Long Covid and poverty (Link).
• Canada's MAiD law is the most permissive in the world. (Link).