Canada Euthanizes ‘Young & Healthy’ Man Over ‘Bout of Depression’

“With a broken heart, I am sharing that my baby boy Kiano passed away … after being euthanized,” Marsilla wrote.

According to her account, the procedure was carried out under the approval of Dr. Ellen Wiebe, a Vancouver-based doctor known for providing both abortions and euthanasia services, and whom Marsilla referred to as “Dr. Death.” Wiebe has reportedly been involved in ending the lives of more than 400 patients.

Kiano was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age four, which later contributed to his visual challenges. As an adult, he battled depression linked to these health issues.

Four years prior, in Ontario, Marsilla had successfully intervened to prevent a scheduled euthanasia, securing help for him instead.

“Four years ago, here in Ontario, we were able to stop his euthanasia and get him some help,” she wrote. “He was alive because people stepped in when he was vulnerable and not capable of making a final, irreversible decision.”

In 2022, she launched a public petition to block another planned euthanasia at Toronto’s MAiD House, expressing shock at the initial approval.

“Can you believe it?” she wrote at the time. “The doctor literally has given him the gun to kill himself.”

Marsilla pleaded for meaningful support, including depression treatment, therapy, family involvement, and reasons for hope. She said none of these were provided.

“None of this happened,” she wrote. “Just an application that lasted for 90 days, and then approval and MAiD House! There was no attempt to connect with family members, no assistance to get proper help or medication for this young man, just an approval.”

On September 28, 2022, Kiano himself confirmed that the public outcry had an impact. In an interview, he explained that after numerous calls to his doctor, the physician “withdrew his role in my care plan.”

He then sought other MAiD assessors but was unsuccessful. One doctor directly told him he was “young and healthy” and not a suitable candidate for euthanasia.

Three years later, however, those protections apparently failed in a different province.

“Tragically, the Canadian system later allowed something very different to happen in Vancouver,” Marsilla wrote. “A doctor named DR ELLEN WIEBE AKA DR DEATH #2 approved his death based on mental illness.”

This occurred even though MAiD for mental illness as the sole condition remains officially barred in Canada until 2027.

“Somehow, DR DEATH #2 found a loophole in the system, one that now demands to be exposed so that no other parent has to endure this,” she stated.

Marsilla did not mince words about her view of the situation.

“This is disgusting on every level,” she wrote. “No compassion. No protection. No effort to save a life, only to end it. This is not healthcare,” she warned. “This is a failure of ethics, accountability, and humanity.”

She committed to seeking answers and supporting other families affected by the program.

“No parent should ever have to bury their child because a system—and a doctor—chose death over care, help, or love.”

Dr. Wiebe has previously been the subject of investigations and complaints related to her euthanasia work, including a 2017 case where she entered an Orthodox Jewish nursing home without full disclosure and performed the procedure on a patient, despite objections from residents (including Holocaust survivors). Regulators found no wrongdoing. Similar complaints from coroners and families have largely been dismissed.

Kiano’s case has intensified concerns about the trajectory of Canada’s assisted-death policies, especially regarding mental health vulnerabilities.

In response to Marsilla’s post, another mother shared that her family had left Canada entirely after seeing the direction of MAiD.

“We also have a daughter who struggles with mental illness,” she wrote. “When I saw and read around 2020 that they were considering this, we gathered the family … and moved back to Hungary with her to save her from this.”

She described how her daughter received mandatory treatment abroad, stabilized, found employment, and is now engaged.

“In Canada,” she wrote, “citing ‘personal rights,’ this would have been the end.”

This heartbreaking outcome serves as a stark reminder that, for some critics, vulnerability in modern Canada is increasingly met not with protection and support, but with the option—or facilitation—of a lethal injection.