The Canadian government-run euthanasia system has crossed another chilling threshold after Canada’s socialized healthcare system euthanized a disabled man because he was experiencing “loneliness.”
A disabled man in his 60s was put to death under Canada’s expanding Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) regime after citing loneliness and social isolation as the primary reasons for wanting to die.
The alarming case was revealed in a 2025 report from Ontario’s MAiD Death Review Committee (OMDRC).
The man, identified only as Mr. B, lived with cerebral palsy and used a wheelchair.
Despite his disability, records show he could independently use the bathroom and move around on his own.
He had lived for years in a long-term care facility.
Yet Mr. B told officials he was experiencing “profound psychosocial suffering and loneliness” due to limited interaction with others.
It was a condition that he said had persisted for years.
However, rather than addressing that isolation, the state ultimately authorized his death.
Roughly two months before his euthanasia application was approved, Mr. B stopped eating solid food and survived only on nutritional drinks.
His physician then referred him for assisted suicide.
After several assessments, practitioners concluded he qualified for euthanasia due to what they labeled a “grievous and irremediable condition.”
Records show Mr. B was offered medication for low mood and initially told he might qualify under Track 2, the MAID pathway for people whose natural death is not considered “reasonably foreseeable.”
Under Canada’s system:
• Track 1 applies when death is deemed “reasonably foreseeable.”
• Track 2 allows euthanasia even when death is not imminent.
Despite the fact that Mr. B’s declining condition was directly linked to his refusal to eat and drink properly, his euthanasia practitioner later ruled that he qualified under Track 1, citing an “incurable condition.”
That reclassification allowed the lethal injection to proceed more quickly.
Some members of the OMDRC raised concerns, noting that Mr. B’s self-starvation may have indicated suicidality, a factor that should have disqualified him.
Those warnings were ultimately ignored.
A Pattern, Not an Exception
Mr. B’s case is not isolated.
Canada’s euthanasia deaths have surged dramatically, with mounting reports of patients being killed for reasons that would have once demanded care, treatment, or protection.
A recent case involving an elderly woman known as Mrs. B sparked national outrage after she was euthanized despite reportedly expressing a desire to live.
Doctors said they proceeded with the lethal injection because her husband, her primary caregiver, appeared “burned out.”
Since assisted suicide was legalized in 2016, the Liberal government has expanded MAID more than thirteenfold.
Under Prime Minister Mark Carney, Canada now operates the fastest-growing assisted suicide program in the world.
Health Canada has since released studies exploring “advanced requests” for euthanasia, a move critics warn could allow lethal injections even when patients can no longer consent.
International Alarm Bells
The expansion has not gone unnoticed outside Canada.
Top U.S. officials are now sounding the alarm.
As Slay News reported, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill has warned that Canada’s MAiD program has crossed a dangerous ethical line.
O’Niell is describing its current trajectory as deeply troubling.
“We thought we’d seen all the possible horrors, you know, in America,” O’Neill said, according to the Washington Examiner.
“And then Canada had this strange new horror that was really just shocking.”
At this point, critics argue, MAiD is no longer about mercy for the dying.
The program is now being used as a tool for eliminating people who are lonely, disabled, depressed, or inconvenient.
Mr. B was not dying.
He was alone.
And in modern Canada, that was deemed reason enough to kill him.
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