That safeguard has already been dropped: Canada’s Parliament has voted to extend the provision to the mentally unwell—as a sole valid criterion for requesting assisted dying. In Canada this form of euthanasia is called “medically assisted dying,” a word salad that covers up a much more gruesome reality. One Nova Scotia cancer patient was offered assisted dying as an option instead of a mastectomy—which the patient herself described as completely inappropriate. In the Netherlands and in Belgium, children under the age of 18 are permitted to access the assisted dying provisions. In 1997, the first year of assisted dying in Oregon, 13% of applicants cited “being a burden on their caregivers and loved ones” as a reason for seeking assisted dying; in 2017, this rose to 52%.