Image description: Text on a grey background detailing access to disability support. Text reads: 87% – Health Canada assures us that in 2021, 9/10 people who required disability supports received them before dying by MAiD. Did you know: Disability income is considered disability support. People like Denise, Richard, and Alexis, who have considered MAiD because they live in poverty on ODSP, would be count as ‘receiving disability support’ if they died by MAiD. And what about those who didn’t have access to necessary disability supports? In 2021, 179 people who died by MAiD required but did not receive disability supports. In 2021, 358 people who required disability supports died by MAiD without the government knowing whether they received them. In 2021, 1968 people died by MAiD without the government knowing it they even required disability supports.
Text reads “And… taking all the unknowns into account, 5,340 people who died by MAiD between 2019 and 2021 may not have had access to necessary supports.” 5340 black coffins on a grey background. Text at the bottom reads “Three and a half times more deaths than when the Titanic sunk.”
