Since 2016, Canada has allowed for euthanasia based on strict criteria under federal medical assistance in dying legislation. The purpose of this study was to determine how Canadian intensivists perceive medical assistance in dying and whether they believe their approach to withdrawal of life-...
In its long-awaited report, the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) recommended that 'mature minors' whose deaths were 'reasonably foreseeable' could access assisted suicide, even without parental consent. The report and its 23 recommendations will be discussed in the Hou...
In May of 2016, seeking to rush through a bill on assisted dying, Trudeau, now PM, strode on the floor of the House to manhandle the Opposition whip and, in doing so, roughly elbowed a female NDP member telling her to get out of the “f… way”. Mr. Nice Guy…well, seems he’...
all routine admissions and all short-term admissions for respite or convalescent care are prohibited, unless required in urgent circumstances. Further, for new clients and existing residents returning to an assisted living facility from a stay in an acute health care facility for a period of at ...
7 When a definition is included within this legislation, death is either defined as cessation of brain function, or includes brain death. Otherwise, it is left to the common law definition adopted by judges, who have so far accepted cessation of brain or cardiorespiratory function. In the ...
Based on the foregoing, we can sketch out four potential government objectives that might underlie a brain-based definition of death: • Avoid the burden on patients, families, and health care personnel of prolonging the dying process. • Avoid the burden on health care resources, and ...
95 Massage therapy, animal-assisted interventions, personally tailored interventions, and even pet robot interventions have been shown to help agitation.94 Both typical and atypical antipsychotics can also reduce agitation and psychosis in individuals with Alzheimer's disease or VaD with neuropsychiatric ...
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One result is that seals now patrol the waters as the lone type of important large predatory sea animals, where once they were assisted in their food web maintenance/recycling role by countless large fish that shared the same ecological niche, by eating and processing the same food, small ...
Such is the strange way of art when the artist is assisted by an image made by a machine of a scene that may have slipped the mind. (Proust also loved photographs. but Plutarch lacked such an advantage - born too soon - alas.) At times when the immortal faces and scenes pass in ...