There were approximately 15,300 Canadian euthanasia deaths in 2023 and more than 60,000 since legalization.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Based on euthanasia data from Quebec, Ontario and Alberta, I predict that there were approximately 15,300 Canadian euthanasia deaths in 2023 and more than 60,000 euthanasia deaths since legalization. There were 13,241 Canadian euthanasia deaths in 2022.

The Quebec Commission on End-of-Life Care released it's Eighth Annual Report which indicated that there were 5211 reported euthanasia deaths (April 1, 2022 - March 31, 2023) which was up from 3663 in the previous year (April 1, 2021 - March 31, 2022). According to the data there have been 15,997 reported euthanasia deaths from legalization until March 31, 2023 in Quebec.

This represents more than a 42% increase in Québec  euthanasia deaths in 2023 representing 6.8% of all Québec deaths, which is the highest in the world.

The report also indicates that from April 1 - June 30, 2023 the number of reported Quebec euthanasia deaths increased by another 24%, a slower pace of growth, but substantial considering the massive number of euthanasia deaths.

Shockingly, 15% of those who died by euthanasia in Quebec were not terminally ill.

The Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario released the December 2023 MAiD data indicating that there were 4641 reported euthanasia deaths in 2023 which was by 18% from 3934 reported euthanasia deaths in 2022.

The Ontario euthanasia data indicates that there have been 18,373 (MAiD) deaths since legalization in June 2016. For clarity, there were 18,370 euthanasia deaths and 3 assisted suicide deaths.

Euthanasia is done by a doctor or nurse injecting a person, usually upon request, with a lethal poison cocktail.

Assisted suicide is done by a doctor or nurse prescribing a person, usually upon request, a lethal poison cocktail that the person would take themselves.

According to the data, of the 4641 reported euthanasia deaths in 2023, 116 were people who were not terminally ill, 28 of the deaths were followed by organ donation and the final consent was waived in 191 deaths. The final consent is waived when a person may become incompetent.

The Alberta Health Services data indicates that there were 977 reported assisted death in 2023 which was up by more than 18% from 836 reported assisted deaths in 2022 and 594 in 2021.

The Alberta data indicates that there has been 3914 reported (MAiD) deaths since legalization in June 2016.

Canada was planning to institute euthanasia for mental illness alone on March 17, 2024, but Canada's Health Minister, Mark Holland, has introduced a bill that would delay the implementation of euthanasia for mental illness until March, 2027.

We hope that this is the first sign of a government that will stop the expansion of euthanasia in Canada.

Euthanasia is out of control in Canada. 2023 update:

In December, a BC cancer patient died by euthanasia after BC Cancer couldn't provide him chemotherapy (Link). Waiting lists for cancer treatment in Canada continues to get worse.

In October, Bill C-314, that would have prevented euthanasia for mental illness, was defeated (Link). Also in October, Health Canada reported that there were 13,241 assisted deaths in 2022 representing 4.1% of all deaths (Link).

In August we reported that a Vancouver woman was offered euthanasia as a "treatment" during a mental health crisis (Link). 

In July a Canadian military veteran slammed the Canadian government for the euthanasia deaths of veterans with PTSD (Link). 

In June we reported that a Canadian quadriplegic woman was approved for euthanasia as she waited to be approved for disability benefits to enable her to live (Link). We also reported that the euthanasia lobby had launched a campaign to force a Catholic hospital in BC to provide euthanasia (Link). *In December, the BC government expropriated property from the Catholic hospital to build a killing center next to the Catholic hospital (Link).

In May we reported that a Québec funeral home was offering euthanasia (Link). 

In February, Canada's Special Joint Committee on Medical Aid in Dying issued a report calling on parliament to extend euthanasia to "mature minors" and by advanced directive (Link). According to the report, Canadian children would be able to be euthanized with or without parental consent (Link). 

In January we reported that a Vancouver doctor euthanized a man who was deemed to be incapable of consenting (Link). We also reported on Tyler Dunlop who was homeless and seeking death by euthanasia (Link).

*In December, Tyler Dunlop, who had applied to die by euthanasia, published a book titled: Therefore Choose Life - My Journey from Hopelessness to Hope (Link). Order the book from EPC (Order Link).

Great News: The Canadian government will further delay the implementation of euthanasia for mental illness.

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition wants the Canadian government to stop the expansion of euthanasia to people with mental illness.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

The Canadian Press reported on January 29, 2024 that Canada's Health Minister, Hon Mark Holland, announced today that Canada is not ready to expand the euthanasia law to include euthanasia for mental illness alone but the government has not yet announced how long that they intend to delay euthanasia for mental illness in Canada.

Alex Schadenberg, the Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) said that he welcomes the further delay in implementing euthanasia for mental illness but EPC will continue to demand that the expansion of euthanasia to people with mental illness not only be delayed but be stopped.

The (EPC) launched a campaign to stop euthanasia for mental illness.  

The campaign includes a rally and media conference on Parliament Hill on February 6 at 11 am.

A parliamentary post-card campaign that states: I demand that the government reverse its decision to permit “MAiD” for mental illness alone. The cards are ordered for free by contacting EPC at: 1-877-439-3348 or email: office@epcc.ca.

A petition (Petition Link) to the Justice Minister and the Justice Critics urging the Canadian government to reverse the decision to permit euthanasia for mental illness and demanding that Canadians with mental illness not be abandoned to death by euthanasia (“MAiD”).

EPC also sent a copy of Tyler Dunlop's book: Therefore Choose Life—My Journey from Hopelessness to Hope to every Member of Parliament.

The Canadian Press reported today that Health Minister Holland said:

the Liberal government agrees that more time is needed and agrees with the conclusion of a joint parliamentary committee report released today.

The committee's final report, tabled just moments before Holland and Justice Minister Arif Virani appeared on Parliament Hill, says fundamental issues around the expansion have not been resolved.

MPs and senators on the committee say it would be "reckless and dangerous" for the Liberal government to allow the scheduled change to take place in March.

Justice Minister Virani was reported by the Canadian Press as stating that the government is aware of the March 17, 2024 deadline and will have a plan in place, he did not indicate when the new timeline or "rules" for killing people with mental illness alone will be released.

EPC will continue to demand that the Canadian government abandon its plan to permit euthanasia for mental illness.

More articles on this topic:

• Join the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition rally on February 6 at 11 am to oppose euthanasia for mental illness. (Link).
• Tell your MP to oppose euthanasia for mental illness (Link).
• Join our campaign. Stop euthanasia of people with mental illness (Link).

A review of Therefore Choose Life: My Journey from Hopelessness to Hope by Tyler Dunlop

By Robert Grant Price

Link to the review by Robert Grant Price (Link).

The backstory to Tyler Dunlop’s book Therefore Choose Life reads like a horror show. Dunlop grew up in a broken home, lost his parents when he was young, was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and took up drinking and drugs in high school and couldn’t quit. Homeless, he traveled across Canada, living on the streets of most major ports of call and dozens of small towns in between, and eventually ended up back in Orillia, Ontario, where he grew up. He was homeless there, too.

While wasting away in Orillia, Dunlop wrote to the local newspaper to say that he wanted the government to kill him. As a homeless person with a drug addiction and mental illness, he felt entitled to MAID. (MAID means “Medical Aid in Dying,” a euphemism for euthanasia, or doctor-assisted suicide.) The newspaper reported Dunlop’s story, and to the surprise of his readers of his book—and probably to Dunlop himself—he found a friend in Tim den Bok, who gave him a place to stay, put up with the madness swirling around Dunlop, and helped him to write Therefore Choose Life, now a bestseller on Amazon.

In this short book, Dunlop parallels the depravity of life at the fringes of society to Dante’s Inferno. The comparison fits. In the eighth circle of Hell, Dante encounters sinners who live in a pool of feces. Surrounded by flatulence and drinking the sewage, the damned complain about their lives and fight with each other.

Dunlop’s experience with homelessness sounds about the same. Shelters reek of filth and rage with insanity. The grime of the streets—the drugs, the garbage, the abuse, the degradation—comes through the page thanks to Dunlop’s visceral detail. It’s exactly what anybody who has wandered Canada’s major cities has seen for themselves, but worse.

These details, though shocking, are not the most compelling parts of the book. The most absorbing passages reveal what it’s like to be invisible—what it feels to have somebody look at you but not see you. In one anecdote, Dunlop receives an invitation from a cousin to spend Christmas with her, but she waits until he leaves the room before she takes the family photo. Mostly he’s ignored, and when he’s noticed, he’s not welcome. In another scene, Dunlop wanders into a church to pray only to have ushers follow him around and evil eyes drive him out.

Therefore Choose Life is a litany of failures. Dunlop was failed by his broken family; by his bad health and his own bad decisions; and by public policies that told him in so many ways that his mad, drug-addled, impoverished life wasn’t worth living. The root of most of these failures, Dunlop writes, is a confusion about the difference between liberty and license: “whereas license means the freedom to do whatever one pleases, liberty means the freedom to do what one ought to do. Liberty in other words is not unlimited. We’re not free to do whatever we want.”

Proponents of the weird strain of authoritarian-libertarianism now posing as liberalism in Canada will want to ask Dunlop why they can’t do whatever they want. Why can’t they define words however they like? Why can’t they make “healthcare” mean whatever they want it to mean? As Dunlop explains in anecdote after anecdote, the infernal environments he called home are products of a society that feels it is better to let people suffer in their own depravity than to help them live meaningful lives. In modern Canada, people are left to their own suicidal madness—they are free to choose self-destruction—and most people are okay with that. They vote for it.

As for getting off the streets, that too seems impossible. The cost of housing is becoming unaffordable for many fully employed Canadians, and for people like Dunlop, who have no credit, no job, no family to speak of, and no guide, climbing up through the circles of Hell is an extraordinary challenge.  

Here, government appears to have a role to play in helping people right themselves, but as Dunlop documents, many government-funded services fail miserably. At every turn, Dunlop runs into bureaucratic obtuseness. He calls an unstaffed suicide hotline and receives a voice message promising that somebody will call back in two days. His advocates try to enroll him in rehab programs, but the wait times are months long, and red tape makes these programs nearly impossible for him to access.

The medical system can get a person vaccinated in a parking lot with military efficiency, but they can’t or won’t help the person get off their addictions, find them into room to sleep in for the night that isn’t crawling with lice, or deliver the medical procedures a person needs in a timely fashion. But—no pressure—your healthcare practitioner can offer MAID at no charge to you.

As the title of the book—a line from Ecclesiastes—indicates, Dunlop chose life. Early in the book he explains how he came to realize the folly of killing himself. Death isn’t the solution to the problems of life. The solutions Dunlop found are few but effective. One, the most prominent in the book, is his Christian faith. Dunlop writes at length about his relationship with God and the hope he places in salvation.

The other solution is a friend. The cure for loneliness is another person, and Dunlop has found friends in Barbara Diane Fitchette, who met him first on the street and who wrote the introduction to the book, Tim den Bok, who gave him shelter and attention, and others who have been sponsoring his recovery. They are the good people who helped Dunlop see the good in himself.

Therefore Choose Life is available through the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition. 

Robert Grant Price is a university and college lecturer and writer. Expressed is an occasional mailing of essays, stories, and reviews.

Homeless man who applied for euthanasia is now the author of a book.

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

Earlier this year, Tyler Dunlop gained international attention for all the wrong reasons. He was the ‘Homeless, hopeless Orillia man’ who was seeking euthanasia. Now, he hopes to make a similar impact for all the right reasons. Therefore Choose Life—My Journey from Hopelessness to Hope was published on November 17, 2023.

Therefore Choose Life is available from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition for $20 for 1 book or $50 for 3 books (+$5 for shipping per book).

Order the book using this link (Order Link) or call the EPC office at: 1-877-439-3348.

Tyler with Tim den Bok

Ali Al Ashoor interviewed Tyler Dunlop in an article that was published in the National Post on December 29, 2023 concerning his book: Therefore Choose Life - My Journey from Hopelessness to Hope. Ashoor reported:

In January 2023, Tyler Dunlop was in the depths of despair.

He had been homeless on and off since 2010 and was walking around cold, hungry and sleepless. He decided to apply for medical assistance in dying (MAID).

The eligibility for assisted suicide was set to expand to include mental illness in March 2023. The government has since pushed that date back until March 2024.

Ashoor continues:

Dunlop never did go through with his assisted suicide. In January, he told his story to OrilliaMatters. This story, in turn, made its way to Tim den Bok, an author from Collingwood, Ont., who has worked for years helping homeless people. His daughter Leah is a photographer who runs a project called Humanizing The Homeless.

“That’s the saddest story I’ve ever heard in my life, and I interviewed probably hundreds of people experiencing homelessness. It really struck a nerve with me,” den Bok said.

Den Bok got in contact with Dunlop. The two have since become friends and together authored a book entitled Therefore Choose Life: My Journey from Hopelessness to Hope.

 “It wasn’t very difficult, in part because Tyler was such a good writer to begin with,” said den Bok.

Ashoor reports that others have helped Tyler

The other healing presence in Dunlop’s life is Barbara Fichette. In November 2022, she met Dunlop at a Toronto park while taking her dog for a walk. He was drunk and hobbling. It was Fichette who helped Dunlop get clean and move to Orillia, and she has written the introduction to the book. These days, Dunlop refers to Fichette as his mom.

Ashoor asked Dunlop about his journey.

I came from a troubled background. It was a dysfunctional home. I grew up kind of on the edges of society, and I used to play in a rock band years ago for many years. However, it didn’t work out. Since that time, around 2007 or so, I started to self-medicate a mental illness that I was diagnosed with. After that, I began to experience homelessness. I’ve been coast-to-coast twice. I’ve been to countless cities and small towns. I’ve been struggling with my issues. I’ve been all over Canada and a lot of my book talks about what I’ve seen on the streets and the social conditions in Canada right now and how frightening they are.

Dunlop spoke about his experiences.

There’s a growing wall between the affluent and the poor. I have seen a lot of people on the streets that really didn’t deserve to be on the streets. Many years ago, when I first started experiencing couch surfing and kind of tramping around, you might say a lot of the people had a kind of common theme. They were addicted to drugs or alcohol, or they had an unmanageable mental illness. In recent years, however, what I’ve seen has been alarming. I’ve seen senior citizens, veterans, working professionals, and students on the street because of the prices of housing. It’s become so astronomical. Just nobody can afford it. There are people living together with strangers just to make the rent. I think it’s a big crisis that needs to get addressed.

Dunlop explains the reality of homelessness

The homeless life is far from charming. There are shelters in Canada, but the shelters are so saturated in drug use and violence that a lot of street people don’t want to stay in them. So, they ended up using emergency services, trying to get into detoxes and treatment centres, or basically anywhere where they could get away from the cold. It’s a hard life and it’s getting harder. A lot of homeless people resort to panhandling and crimes of desperation. Wherever I go in Canada now I see a lot of tent cities springing up in various communities. It is getting worse and the leaders of Canada don’t seem to be paying much attention. I don’t think that’s entirely their fault. I think there’s just nobody has an easy answer to what the homeless life is like.

The worst-case scenario is in the winter. The first thing a homeless person will do is they’ll try to find a warm shelter, usually a hospital emergency room or a bus shelter. Then they wait for things to open until people start coming around and hoping for generosity and maybe some change. Many people will find a spot where they can panhandle, hoping to get through the day or get something to eat or maybe a coffee.

Most people try hard not to see you, and you might get a few insults during the day. Some of them are harassed by law enforcement. Many homeless try to panhandle in front of a business they’ll be asked to leave. They’ll just basically do the rounds and go to various spots within their community where they can get anything to eat.

You have the belligerent homeless people and the nonbelligerent homeless people. It’s very hard to blend in. It’s very hard to not look homeless. It’s very hard to strike up a conversation with them because there’s this unspoken kind of rule that poverty and homelessness are like an airborne virus. Nobody wants to deal with you. It’s a very lonely experience. There’s a lot of walking. Oftentimes your feet will be so sore that you’ll sit anywhere just to rest. If you go into a business, you’re oftentimes treated as a thief or a problem of some kind.

In the warmer months if I had a guitar, because I’ve been playing for 32 years, I would set myself up on the street corner and would just play music.

Ashoor then asked Dunlop why he was seeking death

What caused me to want to end my life was, once I was walking around in the cold, no family or so-called friends could put me up. I hadn’t slept in over three weeks. I was dirty. I was hungry. But one thing I’ve always had is my faith. I’ve always been Christian.

What persuaded me was my talks with Tim den Bok. That kind of philosophical conversation helped me see the light, so to speak. We had a lot of long discussions. He’s very well versed in philosophy and I’m quite familiar with it myself. So last winter, we did a lot of talking together and some arguments got pretty heated. Eventually, he helped me see why life is fundamentally worth living. It was a good experience that brought me back to my senses. When I chose MAID I was in a state of complete brokenness and hopelessness. My hope was restored and my faith in humanity was restored by the kindness I received from many people.

Dunlop explains why his favourite chapter is Welcome to My Nightmare.

I would have to say Welcome to My Nightmare. it shows what I have struggled with in terms of mental illness and alcoholism. It takes the reader through a typical cycle of addicted, mentally ill, chaos and struggling to find housing that I went through. It also takes the reader through the many hoops that you have to jump through to try to access services whether they be homeless services, treatment services, or mental-health services. It speaks for a lot of Canadians.

The article concludes with Dunlop explaining what home means to him.

A home is a place where you stay permanently, and hopefully you’re surrounded by loved ones and support and encouragement. That’s a word that I haven’t been able to use as much in the last 14 years. It’s something I eagerly hope for and am trying to obtain one day. Yeah, home is a permanent place that I can afford.

Therefore Choose Life is available from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition for $20 for 1 book or $50 for 3 books (+$5 for shipping per book).

Order the book using this link (Order Link) or call the EPC office at: 1-877-439-3348.

2023 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Year in Review

Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition (EPC) blog had almost 1.1 million blog articles read in 2023. 2023 was an active year for news related to euthanasia and assisted suicide. This article shares many of the most important stories.

We encourage you to renew your EPC ($25) membership (Link).

In early January 2023 we reported that a Colorado man accidentally ingested lethal assisted suicide drugs while attending an assisted suicide death (Link). This story emphasized the fact that there is no independent oversight for assisted suicide. In late January we reported that a Vancouver doctor euthanized a man who was deemed to be incapable of consenting (Link). Dr Ellen Wiebe is Canada's most notorious euthanasia doctor. We also reported on Tyler Dunlop who was homeless and seeking death by euthanasia (Link).

Dr Leonie Herx

In early February we reported that the United Church approved a euthanasia prayer (Link). Soon after, a Canadian Health expert issued a warning to Scotland's parliament concerning Canada's euthanasia law (Link). In mid February, Canada's Special Joint Committee on Medical Aid in Dying issued a report calling on parliament to extend euthanasia to "mature minors" and by advanced directive (Link). According to the report, Canadian children would be able to be euthanized with or without parental consent (Link).

In March we published the article - Where the Churches stand on euthanasia (Link).

In April a court case was launched to declare California's assisted suicide law as unconstitutional (Link). The court case is continuing into 2024.

In early May an Ontario man was arrested for selling a suicide substance online (Link). In mid May Bill C-314, a bill that would have prohibited euthanasia for mental disorders, had it's first hour of debate in Canada's parliament (Link). We also reported that a Québec funeral home was offering euthanasia (Link).

Rose Finlay

In June, the Uniform Law Commission came to stalemate on proposed changes to Brain Death protocols (Link). In June we reported that a Canadian quadriplegic woman was approved to die by euthanasia as she waited for approval for disability benefits to enable her to live (Link). In late June we reported how the Ontario government hides the cost of euthanasia (Link). We also reported that the euthanasia lobby had launched a campaign to force a Catholic hospital in BC to provide euthanasia (Link). In December, the BC government expropriated property from the Catholic hospital to build a killing center next to the Catholic hospital (Link). 

In early July the German Bundestag rejected bills to legalize assisted suicide (Link). Later in July a Canadian military veteran slammed the Canadian government for the euthanasia deaths of veterans with PTSD (Link). We also reported that a transgendered person, who was denied euthanasia, requested it based on post surgical pain and regret (Link).

Kathryn Mentler

In August we reported that a Canadian woman was offered euthanasia as a "treatment" during a mental health crisis (Link).

In September we reported that a Belgian doctor completed a euthanasia death with a pillow (Link). In mid-September I wrote about my experience visiting the Memorial to the Victims of Euthanasia in Berlin (Link).

In mid-October, Bill C-314, that would have prevented euthanasia for mental illness, was defeated (Link). In late-October Health Canada reported that there were 13,241 assisted deaths in 2022 representing 4.1% of all deaths (Link).

In November I published an article titled: Canada's euthanasia law has gone "mad" (Link). This article was made into a pamphlet that can be ordered from EPC (Ordering Link).

In December, Tyler Dunlop, who had applied to die by euthanasia, published a book titled: Therefore Choose Life - My Journey from Hopelessness to Hope (Link). Order the book from EPC (Order Link). We reported that a BC woman, who had cancer and offered euthanasia, was successfully treated in the US (Link). Soon after we reported that a BC cancer patient died by euthanasia after BC Cancer couldn't provide him chemotherapy (Link). Waiting lists for cancer treatment in Canada continues to get worse.

In December Canada's Justice Minister announced that the government may "pause" it's plan to extend euthanasia to people with mental illness (Link). EPC launched a petition campaign to prevent the extension of euthanasia to people with mental illness (Link).

You are not alone. The Life-Protecting Power of Attorney for Personal Care may save your life (Link).

We encourage you to renew/become a member of EPC ($25) (Link).

Zoom chat with Tyler Dunlop on December 14. author of: Therefore Choose Life

Join a Zoom chat with Tyler Dunlop, Tim Den Bok and Alex Schadenberg on Thursday, December 14 at 2 pm (Eastern Time). 

Tyler is the author of: Therefore Choose Life - My Journey from Hopelessness to Hope.

Register for the Zoom chat on Thursday December 14 at 2 pm (Registration Link).  

The book, which is on the Amazon best seller list, begins with the chapter, ‘The MAID Who Kills.’ It speaks of Tyler’s decision to seek MAID, discusses how he changed his mind on the subject, and ends with a scathing critique of the Canadian government’s legalization of this practice. In this and other chapters, Tyler attacks this policy as being utterly without moral justification. 

In my forward to the book I wrote:

"The story about Tyler Dunlop published by Orillia Matters in January 2023, moved me greatly. In the article Tyler said that he wanted to die by euthanasia (MAiD) because he had been homeless for much of the previous 8 years and he had lost hope in living. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition responded by trying to raise some money to help Tyler find a place to live. We did raise a little bit of money but not enough to relieve the situation. Soon after I met with Tyler and once again I was greatly moved by his life experience. At that time Tyler had a good friend who was helping him so I encouraged him with some help.

The good news is that Tyler changed his mind and decided that there was hope and his life is worth living. This book is the outcome of the support of his friend Tim and Tyler wanting to be healthy and once again live his life with passion and hope. For all those who read this book you will gain insight into the truth as to how euthanasia (MAiD) is not about freedom or choice but rather it abandons the person while they are in a personal crisis. For many, life is difficult but with help and hope, they can be renewed in life. It is my hope that this book will help many seek hope and it will help Tyler, and those experiences similar human difficulties, choose life."

Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition 

Register for the Zoom chat on Thursday December 14 at 2 pm (Registration Link).

Therefore Choose Life deals with other “dark” subjects such as alcoholism, homelessness, and mental illness. The book explores such “light” topics as God, grace, and hope.

Therefore Choose Life is available from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition for $20 for 1 book or $50 for 3 books (+$5 for shipping per book). 

Order the book with this link (Order Link) or call the EPC office at: 1-877-439-3348.

Register for the Zoom chat on Thursday December 14 at 2 pm (Registration Link).

Book: Therefore Choose Life—My Journey from Hopelessness to Hope

This book is an Amazon best seller.

Interview with Tyler on Ontario Morning from CBC Radio (Interview Link).

Earlier this year, Tyler Dunlop gained international attention for all the wrong reasons. He was the ‘Homeless, hopeless Orillia man’ who was seeking euthanasia. Now, he hopes to make a similar impact for all the right reasons. On November 17th, his book Therefore Choose Life—My Journey from Hopelessness to Hope is being published.

Therefore Choose Life is available from the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition for $20 for 1 book or $50 for 3 books (+$5 for shipping per book). 

Order the book with this link (Order Link) or call the EPC office at: 1-877-439-3348.

Joe Roberts, “The Skid Row CEO,” and the author of several books, says of Therefore Choose Life:

“This book has the honesty of Charles Bukowski and the insight of Richard Wagamese. But it’s neither. It’s all Tyler Dunlop, and it’s a masterpiece.” 

Paul Copan, an American human rights scholar who teaches ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida, writes of Tyler’s book:

“This is a powerful, well-told, and uplifting story!” Rev. Dr. John Hamilton, a practicing psychologist, says, “Tyler's book is forthright, frank, gripping, and emotionally riveting!”

In his chapter ‘Canada’s Inferno,’ Tyler—like the ancient Roman poet Virgil in Dante’s Inferno, who guides Dante through hell—escorts the reader through a different hell: the drug culture in Main and East Hastings in East Vancouver. It is probably the most powerful piece of writing you will ever read on the subject.

        Here is an excerpt from it:

“When, the next day, I walked down East Hastings Street, the smell of old and new urine hung in the air like the spectre of old pain that showed in the pale, drawn, scabbed faces of the lost souls stumbling by. Garbage, used condoms, needles and cigarette butts were strewn around. The sound of shopping carts, commandeered by scavengers, shook and rattled. They contained anything the many dumpsters in the endless alleys had to offer, such as old printers and cheap paintings. Empty aluminum cans, rattling in bags tied to the sides of the carts, were a kind of chime. The sound of honking horns and obscenities filled the air. Down an alley, I saw open sex acts. Gaunt hooded figures ducked behind dumpsters. Their crack smoke curled up and rose into the sky like mythological dragons before disappearing with the wind. People slept on the sidewalks with needles still stuck in their arms. Graffiti messages—the names and sentiments of people probably long dead—defaced the storefronts. The loud caws of crows on the rooftops and sagging hydro lines added to the nightmarish scene. A small group of men and women looked barely human as, hunched over, they looked for pebbles of crack they had dropped. A buck-naked young man smashed his head against a wall and screamed profanities.”

“One time, the drug frenzy stopped as some guy started flying a toy helicopter remotely. The whole mass just stopped and looked up at the toy. As they did so, a beam of warm sun pierced through the clouds, and for the briefest of moments, amidst the backdrop of obscenities, all our collective pain did not exist.”

Therefore Choose Life deals with other “dark” subjects such as alcoholism, homelessness, and mental illness. The book explores such “light” topics as God, grace, and hope.

The book begins with the chapter, ‘The MAID Who Kills.’ It speaks of Tyler’s decision to seek MAID, discusses how he changed his mind on the subject, and ends with a scathing critique of the Canadian government’s legalization of this practice. In this and other chapters, Tyler attacks this policy as being utterly without moral justification.

Vera Petrovic, a retired psychiatrist, says:

“We live in a ‘culture of death.’ Euthanasia is taking advantage of the physical and mental pain of people too broken to fight and then calling it ‘death with dignity.’ What it is, is society ridding itself of ‘undesirables.’ God did not allow it in the past, and He will not allow it now. He will send those devoted to His service, those He has placed in His war against the ‘culture of death.’ He will send people like Tyler, pulling himself up to choose life despite every insurmountable personal challenge.”

I also believe that God has raised up Tyler to speak against MAID. But don’t take our word for it. Buy the book and decide for yourself.

Article: Homeless man seeks death by euthanasia. He feels hopeless (Link).