Peaceful Pill Canada is an online national human-rights charity committed to improving quality of dying, protecting end-of-life rights, and helping people across Canada avoid unwanted suffering.
- We defend human rights by advocating for assisted dying rules that respect the Canadian Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- We provide support to adults suffering from a grievous and irremediable medical condition who wish to die on their own terms
- We educate people across Canada about all their legal end-of-life options, including the constitutional right to medical assistance in dying (MAID), and the importance of Advance Care Planning
- We support health care practitioners who assess for and provide MAID
What we believe
Peaceful Pill Canada believes that every adult of sound mind has the right to seek and receive information about, and make plans for, their end of their life.
PPC believes that control over one’s life & death to be a fundamental human right.
PPC believes that the vast majority of right to die laws around the world are too restrictive.
This restrictive nature means that these laws help very few people.
Such laws serve to alienate those who are most vulnerable: those who slip between the strictest of strict qualification criteria – those who are not terminally ill by definition, the elderly and couples who wish to go together.
PPC believes that medical criteria laws are the wrong way to approach the end of life choices / rights debate.
Our Values
Working together with an individual or group of people towards achieving a common goal by sharing ideas, skills, and actions.
We believe collaboration allows us to be more inclusive and mindful of people, perspectives, beliefs and wishes, and more respectful toward each other. We believe living this value makes us more resilient, dynamic, and responsive.
Having the moral bravery to face confrontation or difficulties in carrying out our mission, perseverance in continuing to work for change, and honesty in speaking the truth both within and outside the organization.
Creating environments and making decisions that recognize the individual’s unique and particular needs to ensure they have safe and accessible experiences and feel heard and supported.
We believe being people centered allows us to focus on the whole person, the concentric circles around them (experiential), and to respect and value individual needs, privacy, and opinions without judgment.
