Canada has the world’s fastest-growing program for euthanasia, the practice of doctors and nurse practitioners killing patients with an injection of drugs at their request. Medically assisted suicide — patients themselves taking prescribed, lethal medication — also is legal.

Canada has arguably the world’s most permissive system of euthanasia. That's the practice of doctors and nurse practitioners killing patients with an injection of drugs at their request.

A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, grieving widows. Each euthanasia request sparked debate among Canadian doctors and nurses struggling with the ethics of one of

Doctors discuss cases where patients’ pain might be alleviated by money, adequate housing or social connection.