Medically-assisted dying in Canada, which is legal in that country in some circumstances, reached a record high last year, accounting for about 1 in 20 deaths,government data shows.According to the data,released Wednesday by Health Canada, about 4.7% of Canadians who died in 2023 received MAID...
Canada will soon offer doctor-assisted death to the mentally ill. Who should be eligible? Advertisement embed-more-topic Article content While the law was initially limited to Canadians whose death was “reasonably foreseeable,” in March 2021 this was expanded to anyone w...
NP View: The truly awful cost of Canada's permissive doctor-assisted death program Advertisement embed-more-topic Article content Many have rightly warned that Canada’s increasingly loose MAID regulations represents a slippery slope, which jeopardizes the mentally ill, the poor and the margin...
Led by Justin Trudeau, Canada is at the vanguard of moonbattery. But Democrat-controlled parts of the USA do not lag far behind: Oregon was the first state in the United States to approve medically assisted suicide, with a law going into effect in 1997. California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine...
In this article, the author reflects on ethical aspects of assisted suicide in Canada. Topics discussed include philosophy of life and death, judgment that are extended on mentally retarded, disabled, incurably ill and inferior people, compassion for people in pain, moral evils concatenation and ...
Should Physicians Assist the Seriously Mentally Ill in Death? Susan J. Lewis Ph.D., J.D.onMarch 6, 2024 Individuals with serious and persistent mental illnesses are held to a different standard in physician-assisted dying. Mental Health Stigma ...
Doctor-assisted dying is about to become legal in Canada without clear legislation on how it would work. Ad Canada's Supreme Court last year struck down laws that bar doctors from helping someone critically ill die, but put the ruling on hold until midnight Monday to give the government time...
“rules of a complex legislated and reporting process that determines the line between assisted death and murder” (Pesut et al.,2020, p. 10), with “such leeway in interpretation” that “made it difficult for nurses…to feel as though they were fulfilling their obligation to practice within...
Canada's highest court said Thursday it will hear an appeal in a case that could grant terminally ill people the right to assisted suicide. The case seeks to allow seriously and incurably ill but mentally competent adults the right to receive medical assistance to hasten death under specific saf...
hose on welfare.]]>Uncovers the negative effects of the changes in Quebec's prescription drug plan. Study conducted by Doctor Robert Tamblyn of McGill University; Status of welfare recipients prior to the introduction of the plan; Impact of the plan on elderly patients; Savings made by the ...