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For all the screeching denials, every time euthanasia laws are passed, they prove to be a dark slippery slope. Pro-death campaigners preach piously about ‘imminent death with intolerable suffering’, but, in practice, it’s ‘medical suicide on demand, whatever age’. In places like Canada, medical suicide has risen to become one of the leading causes of death, sitting just behind accidental deaths.
The gallows-humour meme about Canadian ‘healthcare’ offering death as a ‘treatment’ has a dark vein of truth to it.
The grieving parents of a 26-year-old man are speaking out against Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) laws, arguing the system failed to protect their “vulnerable” son from being euthanized, despite a history of mental illness.
Kiano Vafaeian was euthanized on Dec 30, 2025, in British Columbia.
So much for those ‘safeguards’, then.
Firstly, as the Australian Medical Association have pointed out, the very fact that medical killing has to be firewalled with such so many safeguards merely underscores how inherently unsafe the whole thing really is. Even so, those ‘safeguards’ inevitably get watered down by death enthusiasts as soon as the laws are passed. For instance, the Australian state of Victoria passed its first ‘Voluntary Assisted Dying’ (it’s telling when advocates reflexively hide behind euphemisms) in 2019. Within just five years, the laws were watered down to ‘widen access’, and to allow doctors to proactively hawk death as a ‘treatment’.
But, when it comes to a culture of medical killing, Canada is in a truly grim league of its own. What was the medical reasoning for helping Kiano Vafaeian to commit suicide?
His family says he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age four and began struggling with mental health after a car accident at 17.
His mother, Margaret Marsilla of Ontario, said his depression was often seasonal, yet he became “obsessed” with MAID after losing vision in one eye in 2022.
“He kept on emphasizing about how he could get approved,” Marsilla told Fox News Digital. “We never thought there would be a chance that any doctor would approve a 22- or 23-year-old at that time for MAID because of diabetes or blindness.”
Never underestimate Canada’s state-sanctioned death cult.
MAID was legalized in Canada in June 2016. The law allows patients with “grievous and irremediable” medical conditions to request a lethal drug that is either physician or self-administered, to end their lives.
In 2022, after a Toronto doctor initially approved Vafaeian’s request, the family launched a public pressure campaign on social media to voice their opposition.
The outcry led the doctor to withdraw approval. While Vafaeian was initially angry, his family said he showed signs of improvement over the following year, even moving in with them in 2024.
Then came what would normally be a routine case of the ‘winter blues’.
“He tried his best when he was in one of those good highs of life,” Marsilla said. “Then winter, fall started coming around, he started changing and then everything that we had worked for from spring and summertime just disappeared… he would start talking about MAID again.”
So, he went Doctor Death shopping. Still, multiple doctors sensibly rejected this young man’s blatant death wish.
The family said Vafaeian was rejected by multiple doctors in Ontario before he sought out Dr Ellen Wiebe, a prominent MAID provider, in British Columbia. Marsilla believes Wiebe “coached” her son on what to say to meet the criteria for “Track 2” patients – those whose natural deaths are not reasonably imminent.
“We believe that she was coaching him… on how to deteriorate his body and what she can possibly approve him for and what she can get away with approving him for,” Marsilla said. “Because if he had spoken back in 2024, and he was a good candidate for approving MAID, she would have done it right away, but she didn’t.”
This, if nothing else, shows the dangers of laws such as Victoria’s, which allow doctors to ‘initiate conversations’ about medical suicide.
Vafaeian’s parents say they were not notified of the approval and only learned of his death days after it occurred. They noted his medical records did not substantiate the “severe peripheral neuropathy” listed on his death certificate as a qualifying factor.
Meanwhile, it only takes slightly longer to legally kill yourself in Canada than it does to purchase a firearm.
Marsilla […] claims the current system allows doctors to approve and euthanize patients within 90 days on Track 2.
“How is that safe for patients?” she asked.
On Facebook, she wrote, “No parent should ever have to bury their child because a system – and a doctor – chose death over care, help, or love.”
Welcome to ‘VAD’. We might as well get used to it.
