A Canadian family has been left heartbroken and angry after a 26-year-old diabetic and blind man died of physician assisted suicide. The country now has one of the highest rates of medically assisted deaths in the world, 5.1 percent, or a total of 16,499 deaths in 2024, the latest year for which there is data. Marsilla told the Free Press she was uneasy about him traveling alone, but he texted her photos and videos of him with his new sunglasses. Three days later, he texted his mother saying he was scheduled to die from physician assisted suicide the following day. Wiebe then described assisted suicide as the 'best work I've ever done.'

Source: Daily Mail January 27, 2026 07:41 UTC