Suicide organization pours millions into downplaying euthanasia horror stories – LifeSite
(LifeSiteNews) — As Mark Carney’s Liberals begin to realize that their euthanasia regime is a growing problem, Dying with Dignity, the country’s largest and most powerful suicide lobby, is kicking into gear by pouring enormous amounts of cash into their campaign for expansion.
Dying with Dignity Canada (DWDC) has a long list of priorities, including euthanasia for “mature minors” (that is, children); the expansion of assisted suicide eligibility to those suffering solely from mental illness; forcing religious healthcare institutions to facilitate euthanasia; implementing “advance requests” for euthanasia (allowing people to make “a written request for (assisted suicide) that could be honored later,” eliminating the need for current consent); and reversing Alberta’s restrictions on euthanasia.
But for the first time since 2016, suicide activists are on the back foot. The families of vulnerable but physically healthy Canadians who were killed are speaking out, often in rage and grief. The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has condemned Canada’s euthanasia regime and called for the government to roll back the planned expansion to those with mental illness, refrain from legalizing advance requests, and repeal Track 2 “MAiD.” And every month, more stories hit the news that shock not only perennially complacent Canadians but the international press.
Increasingly, Carney and the Liberals appear to recognize that the euthanasia issue is, as John Ivison put it in the National Post, a “ticking time bomb.” Last month, the Globe and Mail reported that the government was prepared to halt plans to expand euthanasia eligibility to mental illness. That would be a victory for the vulnerable and their families, but a huge blow to Dying with Dignity. Canada has now hit 100,000 euthanasia deaths, but the suicide lobby’s primary issue with that number is that it is far too small.
Thus, Dying with Dignity is throwing money at the problem.
“DWDC has long-term investments of $8,160,832 (2025), up from $7,370,174 (2024),” Pat Maloney reported at her investigative blog Run with Life. “Imagine a charity so rich that they can afford to keep more than $8 million in long-term investments — money that clearly isn’t needed to run the business. They also received $646,153 in investment income alone. Can you imagine a pro-life charity being this rich? Neither can I … Donations are up: $ 2,976,918 (2025), from $ 2,759,606 (2024).”
You have to wonder where all of that cash is coming from. How much comes from bequests by people who died of euthanasia? The largest donation in Dying with Dignity Canada’s history was from Dave Jackson, who died by euthanasia in 2017 — and left the group $7 million. The CEO at the time called the bequest “nothing short of transformational.” DWDC has a handy YouTube video on its website explaining how you, too, can leave them a gift in your will as a “simple way for you to create an impactful and enduring legacy of compassion and choice.”
Indeed. As Pat Maloney reported, “Advertising and promotions $1,013,241 (2025), up from $803,555 (2024). That’s over one-third of their donations spent on advertising and promoting and lobbying the government for the killing industry.”
Over against DWDC is a handful of pro-life groups, disability rights groups, and concerned Canadians trying to protect the vulnerable Canadians who will be ground up and spit out by the euthanasia machine. Fortunately, the truth about what groups like Dying with Dignity and their political allies have wrought in this country is so horrifying that it is finally — finally — coming out.
Jonathon’s writings have been translated into more than six languages and in addition to LifeSiteNews, has been published in the National Post, National Review, First Things, The Federalist, The American Conservative, The Stream, the Jewish Independent, the Hamilton Spectator, Reformed Perspective Magazine, and LifeNews, among others. He is a contributing editor to The European Conservative.
His insights have been featured on CTV, Global News, and the CBC, as well as over twenty radio stations. He regularly speaks on a variety of social issues at universities, high schools, churches, and other functions in Canada, the United States, and Europe.
He is the author of The Culture War, Seeing is Believing: Why Our Culture Must Face the Victims of Abortion, Patriots: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Pro-Life Movement, Prairie Lion: The Life and Times of Ted Byfield, and co-author of A Guide to Discussing Assisted Suicide with Blaise Alleyne.
Jonathon serves as the communications director for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform.
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