Canada legalized the practice following a supreme court decision in 2015 and has seen a rapid rise in what are called MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) deaths. When Canada’s Parliament in 2016 legalized the practice of euthanasia—Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID, as it’s formally called—it launched an open-ended medical experiment. MAID now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada—more than Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined—surpassing countries where assisted dying has been legal for far longer. It is too soon to call euthanasia a lifestyle option in Canada, but from the outset it has proved a case study in momentum. The law was then expanded to include people who were suffering from serious medical conditions but not facing imminent death.