Euthanasia Prevention Coalition needs your support.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) exists to build a well-informed, broadly-based network of groups and individuals supporting measures that will create an effective social barrier to euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Canada created the term (MAiD) - medical assistance in dying, to make us feel better about killing, but the reality is that Canada legalized euthanasia in 2016 and expanded the law in 2021 by removing the requirement that a person be terminally ill to be killed.

In January EPC released the Life Worth Living film that explains what has happened in Canada while featuring important personal stories related to euthanasia. This is a powerful award winning film. You can watch the trailer or purchase the film at: https://lifeworthlivingfilm.com/

Canada is currently scheduled to extend euthanasia to people with a mental illness alone in March 2027.

On May 5, 2026, we spoke to the Parliamentary Committee that was examining the extension of euthanasia to mental illness alone. The position of EPC is to demand that Canada fully review it's euthanasia law rather than further expand the law. On June 17, the parliamentary committee advised the federal government to not extend euthanasia to people with mental illness alone. We await the government's response.

EPC is intervening in a court case concerning euthanasia for mental illness alone. Claire Brosseau and the euthanasia lobby launched an emergency court case that would approve Brosseau for death by euthanasia based on mental illness alone. In essence, the euthanasia lobby want the court to legislate from the bench by approving death for Brosseau as the Canadian government continues to debate this issue.

The cost of intervening in the Brosseau case is excessive. We need your financial support to cover the legal costs. (EPC Donation Link).

EPC supports Bill C-218 which is a private members bill that will prevent euthanasia for mental illness alone in Canada. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition urges Canadians to sign our petition in support of Bill C-218. (Petition Link).

For more information you can read our newsletters (newsletters link) or you can read more of our blog articles (EPC Blog Link). The EPC blog has more than 6300 articles and has had more than 17 million pageviews.

EPC has many more activities. We need your support to continue our work. Donations can be made at: (credit card online Link) or (Paypal donation Link) or send an E-transfer to info@epcc.ca or call EPC at: 1-877-439-3348.

Show the powerful film in your community: Life Worth Living

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Purchase or rent the Life Worth Living film from the Euthansia Prevention Coalition at: https://lifeworthlivingfilm.com

Change hearts and minds by screening the powerful Life Worth Living film in your community.

Below is the trailer for the Life Worth Living film:

Reviews we received of the film:

I just watched Life Worth Living and I have to say I'm so incredibly impressed. I can't contain my enthusiasm for this film. It's one of the best film projects on the subject of medical killing ever. I'd expect awards to be forthcoming for best documentary film. Lester.

Another review:

I have purchased the film "Life Worth Living" a couple of weeks ago and have watched it. I feel that it's a film that everyone should watch because it shows what is happening in the system of "health" care in Canada and it opens our eyes to the reality of how far our government and the medical system has gone in the direction of killing people instead of healing people.

I would like to ask permission to show this film for our parish community. Eva

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition granted Eva permission to have the film shown in her community. Please arrange screenings of the film.

Life Worth Living features:

• Alicia Duncan, whose mother died by euthanasia with conditions based on mental health, 
• Kelsi Sheren, a Canadian military veteran who came back from combat with PTSD and other disabilities. Kelsi is a social media influencer and a life coach.
• Roger Foley, a Canadian man living with a significant disability who has been pressured by hospital staff to request euthanasia.
• Dr David D'Souza, an Ontario pain specialist.
• Dr Catherine Ferrier, a Quebec Gerontologist and a leader of Physicians' Alliance against Euthanasia, 
• Dr Will Johnston, a Vancouver family physician and leader of Euthanasia Resistance BC
• Kathy Matusiak Costa, Executive Director of Compassionate Community Care,
• Alex Schadenberg, (myself), author, keynote speaker, International leader opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide.

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition needs your help.

1. Purchase the Life Worth Living Film (Life Worth Living film Link)
2. Arrange to have Life Worth Living shown in your community. Contact us at: info@epcc.ca
3. You may want a speaker at the event to lead a discussion. Contact us at: info@epcc.ca

Do you have an Assisted Suicide story? Contact EPC

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

The Life Worth Living film that features stories from people who have been affected by Canada's euthanasia law, continues to do extremely well with many groups and individuals organizing local screenings of the film.

You can purchase the film at: www.lifeworthlivingfilm.com or contact the us to purchase or to arrange a local screening of the film at: info@epcc.ca or by calling the office at: 1-877-439-3348.

For the past few months EPC has been producing an American assisted suicide film under the working title: Prescription Poison. We have completed multiple interviews throughout America with several important stories.

Jeanette Hall (picture) in 2020 was living with cancer and given 6 months to a year to live. She wanted assisted suicide. But her doctor helped her to change her mind.

Assisted suicide has now been legalized in 13 US states and one Territory (Washington DC).  Further to that, the assisted suicide lobby has expanded access to assisted suicide by removing "safeguards" in the states where it is legal. Ultimately the US assisted suicide lobby wants to follow Canada's lead by expanding the killing from assisted suicide to euthanasia while the number of assisted suicide deaths in America continues to increase every year.

We need one more personal story to pull this powerful film together.

Do have a personal assisted suicide story (Link) or do you know of an assisted suicide story?

Contact the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition at info@epcc.ca or call us at: 1-877-439-3348.

Free online Life Worth Living film screening on March 30.

Register in advance to watch the free online screening of the powerful Life Worth Living film on Monday, March 30 at 7 pm (Eastern Time). (Registration Link)

The Life Worth Living film features stories from people who have been directly affected, doctors who explain their experiences, and people who are working to prevent euthanasia in Canada. 

Register in advance for this online event: (Zoom registration link). After registering you will receive a viewing link.

EPC has had multiple online screenings and many groups have sponsored screenings of the Life Worth Living film. We encourage groups and individuals to arrange a screening of the Life Worth Living film. Contact EPC at info@epcc.ca

Life Worth Living was a finalist at the Cannes World Film Festival and is being considered by multiple film festivals. 

Life Worth Living is 60 minutes long. After the completion of the broadcast we will have time for a discussion.

Life Worth Living features:

• Alicia Duncan, whose mother died by euthanasia with conditions based on mental health, 
• Kelsi Sheren, a Canadian military veteran. CEO, best selling Author of the book - Brass & Unity, TedX speaker and host of the Kelsi Sheren perspective.

  

  Roger Foley

• Roger Foley, a Canadian man living with a significant disability who has been pressured by hospital staff to request euthanasia.
• Dr David D'Souza, Ontario pain specialist.
• Dr Catherine Ferrier, Quebec Gerontologist and a leader of the Physicians' Alliance against Euthanasia, 
• Dr Will Johnston, family physician and leader of Euthanasia Resistance BC
• Kathy Matusiak Costa, Executive Director of Compassionate Community Care,
• Alex Schadenberg, (myself), author, keynote speaker, International leader opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide.

 

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition needs your help:

1. Arrange to have Life Worth Living shown in your community. Contact us at: info@epcc.ca
2. You may want a speaker at the event to lead a discussion. Contact us at: info@epcc.ca
3. You can purchase the Life Worth Living film at:  www.lifeworthlivingfilm.com or through Salem Now.

2025 was a year of great victory with great challenges.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director,
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

2025 was a year of great success and great challenges for those who oppose killing by euthanasia and assisted suicide.

The first success was the growth of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC). The EPCBlog grew significantly in the past year with 3.66 million readers in 2025, not counting the people who read our articles that were republished on other sites.

We allow anyone to republish our articles, as long as they attribute or link to our original article. Our blog articles always contain links to the original articles enabling people who are doing research to find the original articles.

We are pleased with the successful Sloveniana referendum. The Slovenian parliament passed a bill to legalize euthanasia in July 2025. The referendum was a great success with 53.5% rejecting the Slovenian euthanasia law.

We are very pleased with our January 1, 2026 release of the film: Life Worth Living. (Link to the Life Worth Living information).

The film project grew out of our work with the successful Slovenian referendum campaign, as well as our work with partners in Victoria, Australia who were trying to prevent the expansion of their assisted suicide law, and also our promotion of Bill C-218, the bill that is sponsored by Tamara Jansen MP which, if passed, would prevent euthanasia for mental illness alone in Canada.

While working on the film project, we shared footage of interviews concerning Canada’s experience with euthanasia, that was used in the Slovenian referendum campaign.

There were more successes, but there were also significant losses.

Delaware, Illinois and New York all legalized assisted suicide in 2025. This is a significant loss considering that the last state to legalize assisted suicide was New Mexico 5 years earlier. We are concerned that 2026 will lead to more states legalizing assisted suicide.

We are also concerned about the assisted suicide debate in Britain. The assisted suicide bills at Westminster (England and Wales) and at Holyrood (Scotland) will likely both be voted on in 2026.

Canada's experience with euthanasia has changed the debate in many countries. This is good since we don't want them to follow Canada's lead. Nonetheless, many of these jurisdiction believe that they are not Canada, or the Netherlands or Belgium, therefore it will be different for them. Canadians were told the same in 2015/2016.

People miss the fact that people are people and killing is killing.

We opposed to euthanasia because it is literally about killing people. Assisted killing is a bad idea not just because it cannot be contained or it will negatively affect people at a vulnerable time of their life, even though those statements are true.

We oppose assisting a suicide because it is also about killing someone. Assisting a suicide undermines the need that the person is experiencing, where the response should be proper care and suicide prevention.

Based on the nature of the human person, it is never a good idea to give someone, the right in law, to kill people, as euthanasia and assisted suicide laws actually do. Historically, it has never worked out when a society allows one group of people (medical professionals) to kill people, even when it is requested.

Celebrating hope, milestones and success.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director
Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

As we celebrate the Christmas Season with hope we also celebrate our milestones and successes with hope for the New Year.

We celebrate that today, the EPC blog surpassing 13 Million pageviews. The last year alone, the EPC blog had more than 3.6 Million pageviews. 

We regularly receive emails from people from around the world either thanking us for the research and information that is published on the blog or asking us for specific information.

There are more reasons to celebrate.

2025 has been a great challenge, but we are pleased with the success of the Slovenian referendum and our soon-to-be-released film: Life Worth Living.

The film project grew out of our work on the successful Slovenian referendum campaign, as well as our work with partners in Victoria, Australia to prevent the expansion of their assisted suicide law and our promotion of Bill C-218, the bill that is sponsored by Tamara Jansen MP which, if passed, would prevent euthanasia for mental illness alone in Canada.

While working on the film project, we shared excellent footage of interviews concerning Canada’s experience with euthanasia, that was used in the Slovenian referendum. The Slovenian referendum was a great success with 53.5% rejecting the Slovenian euthanasia law that had passed in their national legislature last July.

The Slovenian referendum taught us some important lessons and provided great hope for the future. Some of the lessons concern messaging: euthanasia (MAiD) is about poisoning people to death, do not be afraid to tell the truth, as well as euthanasia concerns healthcare and pension savings. Euthanasia reduces costs by killing people.

We also shared footage with our partners in Victoria, Australia who were working to prevent the expansion of their euthanasia law.

We have not fully recovered the  cost of the film, which was around $50,000. Consider making a Christmas donation to EPC and enable us to fully recover the cost of the film. 

Donation to the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (Donation Link).

Watch the Trailer for our powerful film Life Worth Living (Trailer Link).

We also created footage to specifically support the passage of Bill C-218. For instance, Alicia Duncan, whose mother died by euthanasia in 2021 based on mental health issues, shared her powerful story and Kelsi Sheren shared her story of living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, after serving Canada in the military in Afghanistan.

The film - Life Worth Living will be available in January. We need our supporters, to organize screenings of the film. You may also want a speaker, such as myself, to lead a discussion forum, after the screening.

The film also features: Roger Foley, a Canadian living with a significant disability who has been pressured by hospital staff to request euthanasia, Dr David D'Souza, a pain specialist in Ontario, Dr Catherine Ferrier, a Gerontologist and a leader of Physicians' Alliance Againt Euthanasia in Quebec, Dr Will Johnston, a family physician and leader of Euthanasia Resistance BC, Kathy Matusiak Costa, Executive Director of Compassionate Community Care and myself.

Press Conference on December 5, 2025

Bill C-218 had its first hour of debate in parliament on December 5, 2025. EPC organized a press conference at the Parliamentary Press Gallery on December 5 that featured: Kelsi Sheren, a military veteran who experienced PTSD. Kelsi is also a social media influencer. Alicia Duncan, whose mother died by euthanasia in 2021 based on mental health issues, Dr Paul Saba a family physician in Lachine Quebec and Alex Schadenberg (myself). Kelsi and Alicia joined by remote link.

(Link to the EPC Press Conference)

After the press conference Dr. Saba and I stayed to witness the Bill C-218 debate in the House of Commons. 

Tamara Jansen MP and Andrew Lawton MP gave excellent speeches. Jansen stated in the House of Commons 

“If MAID is expanded, we will be forced into an impossible paradox. A suicidal person calling a crisis line is urged to hold on, yet if they request MAID, that same despair may be treated as justification for death. Bill C-218 is necessary to stop the 2027 expansion to mental illness because the evidence cannot support it and the safeguards cannot sustain it. Vulnerable Canadians are already at risk.”

Link to the speech by Tamara Jansen on Bill C-218 (Article Link).

One of our supporters stated on social media: “Well done Tamara Jansen! How could anyone disagree with her arguments.”

Andrew Lawton (MP) spoke about his own experience with mental illness and a suicide attempt 15 years earlier. Lawton stated in the House: 

"I would not be here today had I been successful. I would not be here today had I not gotten over the darkest, worst feelings of my life, which anyone could encounter. That is something I believe needs to be understood by those who believe this is an abstract question of legal theory and legal rights. These are real people. There are faces to this. If Bill C-218 does not pass, people will die."

Link to the speech by Andrew Lawton on Bill C-218 (Article Link).

The second hour of debate and vote on Bill C-218 is currently scheduled to be in late March, 2026.

Health Canada released the 2024 euthanasia data on November 28, 2025. The number of euthanasia poisonings increased to 16,499 representing 5.1% of all deaths. Quebec continues to have the highest euthanasia rate in the world, now at 7.9% of all deaths. The number of euthanasia deaths of people who were not terminally ill increased by 17% to 732. We have a lot of work to do. Canada needs a massive culture shift.

Read the article on the Health Canada 2024 euthanasia report (Article Link).

The 2024 report indicated that there were 76,475 (MAiD) euthanasia deaths in Canada from legalization until December 31, 2024. 

Based on the 2025 projected increase in euthanasia deaths, 2025 will end with at least 93,500 euthanasia deaths since legalization.

We have hope, and we share hope. Hope is essential in preventing euthanasia, as euthanasia is often requested based on a lack of hope.

EPC video: No MAiD for Mental Illness. Support Bill C-218.

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) supports Bill C-218, a private members bill that would prevent MAiD for Mental Illness alone in Canada. (Link to the campaign article).

In March 2021, the Canadian government expanded the euthanasia law by passing Bill C-7. One of the expansions was to permit euthanasia (MAiD) for a mental illness alone. The government delayed MAiD for mental illness alone to provide time to prepare for this change. The government is now planning to implement MAiD for mental illness alone on March 17, 2027. Bill C-218 would prevent MAiD for mental illness alone.

EPC is producing a social change film. Part of that film concerns euthanasia for mental illness. Please share our short video: No MAiD for Mental Illness (Video Link).

This short video features: Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of EPC; Alicia Duncan, whose mother died by euthanasia based on mental health, Kelsi Sheren, a combat veteran who experienced PTSD while serving our country, Dr. David D'Souza, a chronic pain specialist and Dr. Will Johnston, a family physician and leader of Euthanasia Resistance BC.

To pass, Bill C-218 needs Member of Parliament from all political parties to support it. Talking points for speaking to your Member of Parliament:

• Only comment on MAiD for mental illness alone. Bill C-218 only deals with that issue. There are many concerns, but mixing issues weakens your position.
• Contact your Member of Parliament, even if you know his/her position on MAiD.
• Ask others, including groups that you belong to, to contact their Member of Parliament.

More information on Bill C-218.

• Bill C-218 introduced to prevent MAiD for Mental Illness (Link). 
• Support Bill C-218. No to MAiD for Mental Illness (Link). 
• Supporting Bill C-218 - I am so thankful to be alive (Link). 
• I got better. Support Bill C-218 prevent MAiD for Mental Illness (Link). 
• My story: No to MAiD for Mental Illness (Link). 
• Patti's story. Support Bill C-218. (Link).
• The majority of Canadians do not support MAiD (euthanasia) for mental illness (Link).