Health-Care ‘Serial Killers’ Could Potentially Abuse Canada’s Assisted Dying Program: Study

The study notes that clinicians involved in HSK often target patients who share the same clinical traits as those eligible for MAID. It raises heightened concern about Canadian law defining MAID as a “non-culpable” form of homicide, exempting practitioners from criminal liability in cases where patient deaths might otherwise raise suspicion, the study says. “While some patients may be legally eligible for MAiD by meeting the Criminal Code eligibility criteria, their assessors and providers can still have non-clinical or extra-legal motivations to participate, such as sadism, financial gain, misapplied altruism,...