Category Death & Assisted Dying

In a Nutshell: The Special Joint Committee on MAiD and Advance Requests

March 10, 2023 · by · in Death & Assisted Dying, Death and Dying, disabilities, Disability, euthanasia, Law & Policy, Older Adults, physician-assisted dying, Social Justice, vulnerability

Timothy Holland summarizes the recently released Special Joint Parliamentary report on medical assistance in dying (MAiD) as it applies to advance requests for MAiD.

Turning Human Rights Upside Down with Advance Requests for MAID

June 8, 2022 · by · in Canada, Canadian Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Community, Death & Assisted Dying, Death and Dying, Human Rights, Law & Policy, MAiD, Mental Health, physician-assisted dying, vulnerability

Trudo Lemmens shows how proposals to expand advance requests for medical assistance in dying (MAID) ignore the Supreme Court’s restraint reflected in the Carter decision and reverse constitutional and human rights norms.

In a Nutshell: Correcting the record about medical assistance in dying

May 17, 2022 · by · in Canada, Canadian Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Death and Dying, Law & Policy, MAiD, Mental Health, physician-assisted dying, vulnerability

Jocelyn Downie clarifies what the Supreme Court of Canada’s Carter decision actually says (and doesn’t say) about advance requests for MAiD and MAiD for psychiatric illness.

Unmuddying the waters of the law and MAiD for mental illness

January 10, 2022 · by · in Canada, Canadian Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Death and Dying, Law & Policy, MAiD, Mental Health, physician-assisted dying, vulnerability

Jocelyn Downie rebuts misleading claims about the law and medical assistance in dying for mental illness advanced by psychiatrists Mark Sinyor and Ari Zaretsky in a recent Op-Ed.

MAiD and the Oral Protocol: Time for a Closer Look

November 10, 2021 · by · in Death & Assisted Dying, Death and Dying, euthanasia, Law & Policy, Long-Term Care, MAiD, Older Adults, physician-assisted dying, vulnerability

Daryl Pullman compares the number of deaths due to MAiD in Canada in 2020 to the dramatically lower number that occurred in California under its end-of-life option. He argues for wider use of the oral protocol in Canada.

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