A year in review. Important stories and articles in 2025.

Alex Schadenberg

Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

In 2025, the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition experienced growth in support, in article readership and in success. In 2025 we had 3.66 million blog pageviews on the EPC blog. Americans were our largest audience but readers were world-wide.

 

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A year in review: Important stories and articles in 2025.

In January 2025 EPC started a petition campaign demanding a review of Dr Ellen Wiebe's euthanasia practice in response to the many controversial deaths that are linked to Dr Wiebe (Link). Dr Wiebe was also ordered, by a Judge, not to kill an Alberta woman who Dr Wiebe had approved for euthanasia (Link) and Alberta Premier, Danielle Smith, stated that she was concerned about euthanasia in Canada (Link).

In January, several assisted suicide bills were introduced in US States including: Delaware, Illinois, and New York. EPC explained that once legal, assisted suicide laws will inevitably expand (Link) and we reported on a Hawaii assisted suicide murder investigation. (Link).

In February 2025, based on the Ontario, Quebec and Alberta data, I predicted that there were approximately 16,500 Canadian euthanasia deaths in 2024. (Link). When Health Canada finally released the 2024 report in November, the report stated that there were 16,499 Canadian euthanasia death (Link).

In February we focused on defeating assisted suicide legalization and expansion bills in US states including: California, Delaware, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington state, We were also hopeful that Montana would pass a bill prohibiting assisted suicide (Link).

In March 2025 we reported that the Canadian Human Rights Commission were concerned about Canada's euthanasia law (Link) and we reported that the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ordered Canada to repeal Track 2 euthanasia and to not expand euthanasia to people with mental illness, children and by advance request (Link 1), (Link 2).

In March we also focused on defeating assisted suicide bills in US states including: Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts,  Nevada, New Hampshire, and Oregon. We continued to support the Montana bill.

In March we published several articles concerning the poison cocktails used for assisted suicide and euthanasia (Link 1), (Link 2), (Link 3).

In March we also published articles about the Quebec euthanasia report, the Belgian report and the Netherlands report.

In April 2025 we focused on several key stories including that another Canadian veteran was offered euthanasia (Link) and Canada's Conservative Party promised not to expand the euthanasia law (Link).

In April we also focused on defeating assisted suicide bills in: Delaware, Illinois, Nevada, New York, while the bill to prevent assisted suicide in Montana was defeated.

In April we published articles on a Canadian who was denied surgery but offered euthanasia (Link), about a Netherlands political party who are wanting to extend euthanasia to people with late stage dementia (Link). We also commented on the problem of defining euthanasia and assisted suicide as medical treatment (Link) and Professor Theo Boer urged France to consider the Netherlands experience with euthanasia and reject it (Link).

In May 2025 the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and the Delta Hospice Society held a press conference in Ottawa (Link). EPC demanded a complete review of Canada's euthanasia law (Link). We also followed the Coroner's inquest into the death of Normand Meunier (Link).

In May we also focused on the New York assisted suicide bill and we continued to challenge the assisted suicide poison cocktails (Link).

In May we also commented on Canada's euthanasia lobby pushing for child euthanasia (Link), and how a Quebec radio host said that assisted suicide was a 'solution' for the mentally ill (Link). We also reported on the debate in Belgium to extend euthanasia to people with dementia (Link).

In June 2025 we focused on improving Roger Foley's care (Link) and we launched a petition urging the hospital to feed Roger Foley (Link). We published articles about the euthanasia clinic that is attached to St Paul's hospital in Vancouver (Link 1) (Link 2) and Bill C-218 was introduced by Tamara Jansen (MP) to prevent euthanasia for mental illness alone (Article Link)

In June we also mourned the death of Stephen Mendelsohn (Link). We also wrote about the New York assisted suicide bill, and the assisted suicide lobby court case to force Colorado to provide suicide tourism (Link) and the American Medical Association re-affirming its opposition to assisted suicide (Link). We also launched a petition to the US Food and Drug Administration concerning the assisted suicide poison cocktails (Link) 

In July 2025 we launched our campaign supporting Bill C-218 (Link) and promoted the video by Andrew Lawton (MP) - I got better (Link). We also published personal stories of people who are happy to be alive, in support of Bill C-218 (Story). We also started our Dying With Dignity corporate boycott (Link).

In July, the US Department of Health and Human Services published a study showing abuse of organ donation, with many organ donors not being dead before donation (Link 1) (Link 2).

In August 2025 we published stories of people who are happy to be alive (Link 1) (Link 2) in support of Bill C-218. We also published three articles on the expose titled: Canada is Killing itself (Link 1) (Link 2) (Link 3). We also published an article about an Ontario report on people who refuse treatment who died by euthanasia (Link).

In August we also published an article on how US states have abandoned their assisted suicide "safeguards" (Link), about the increase in New Zealand euthanasia (Link), on the legalization of euthanasia in Uruguay and Slovenia (Link) and we commented on the use of language in the debate (Link).

In September 2025 we published more stories, in support of Bill C-218, of people who are happy to be alive (Link 1) (Link 2) (Link 3) and we continued to promote Bill C-218 (Link). We also published articles on language games (Link) and about the Canadian government funding the euthanasia lobby (Link).

Jennifer Brady - Nova Scotia

In September we also explained that 90,000 Canadians had died by euthanasia since legalization (Link) and Canadians with disabilities are disproportionately dying by euthanasia (Link). We reported on a Nova Scotia woman who was offered euthanasia but denied treatment, but recieved treatment in the US (Link) and we urged Brian Kilmeade to resign from Fox for stating: Just kill the mentally ill (Link).

In October 2025 we published articles about a dementia patient who died by euthanasia after the family made the request (Link), an Ontario mother who was offered euthanasia after being paralysed from a Covid shot (Link), how assisted suicide was offered to a Colorado woman with an eating disorder (Link) and how euthanasia has caused Canadians with disabilities to fear the healthcare system (Link).

In October the Quebec government proposed a new constitution that included a "right" to euthanasia (Link) and we published an article that Veterans Affairs had offered euthanasia to 20 veterans (Link).

In October, we reported that the assisted suicide lobby is promoting suicide tourism (Link) and Illinois had passed their assisted suicide bill (Link).

In November 2025 Health Canada finally released the 2024 euthanasia report indicating that 16,499 Canadians died by euthanasia representing 5.1% of all deaths (Link), the Quebec 2024 euthanasia report indicated that Quebec has the highest euthanasia rate in the world (Link). We also published a guide to supporting Bill C-218 (Link) and a poll showed that the majority of Canadians do not support euthanasia for mental illness (Link) and we published an article explaining that Health Canada regulations require doctors to offer euthanasia (Link).

In November we mourned the death of the great John Kelly (Link) and we launched a campaign to lobby the Illinois Governor to veto the assisted suicide bill (Link) and we reported on a Netherlands euthanasia bill that would eliminate existing legal restrictions (Link).

In November we were also heavily involved with the successful Slovenian referendum campaign. 53.5% of the voters rejected the Slovenian euthanasia law (Link 1) (Link 2).

In December 2025, the first hour of debate for Bill C-218, the bill that would prevent euthanasia for mental illness in Canada, was on December 5. Tamara Jansen (MP) who sponsored the bill spoke in Parliament (Link) and Andrew Lawton (MP) who lived with mental illness also spoke in Parliament (Link). EPC held a Press Conference in support of Bill C-218 (Link), at the Press Conference, Alicia Duncan stated that Canada will remember the lives saved or lost (Link). EPC also released a video titled: No MAiD for Mental Illness (Link).

In December the Illinois and New York Governors agreed to sign their assisted suicide bills. Three US states legalized assisted suicide in 2025 (Link). We published the article - the myth of a safe assisted suicide regime (Link) and we learned of a woman who fraudulently died by assisted suicide in Washington state (Link). 

In December we also learned of another Canadian woman who was denied surgery but offered euthanasia and who may be going to the US for treatment (Link). The death lobby also promoted the story of an actress who is seeking euthanasia for mental illness (Link).

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition ended 2025 by celebrating hope, milestones and success (Link) but most of all we offer hope with our new film - Life Worth Living that is now available to be rented or purchased online (Link).