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[โ€“] Gladaed@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Your numbers aren't rates per population. Hence there may be some credibility.

The issue is that MAID has only recently become available. You should expect there to be a number of sufferors who would have used it sooner had it been available i.e. it isn't a steady state and shouldn't be compared to one.

[โ€“] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That makes an interesting point. As I recall Canada as a whole had roughly the population of California about 40-50M? The USA has somewhere upwards of 300M total, so to be comparable Canada would have to be multiplied several times over.

Still, the fact that it's pre-planned with proper checks and approvals puts it in a whole separate class from murder and crisis desicion suicide in the USA where comparison is pretty pointless anyhow.