Medical assistance in dyingRight to dieIt has historically been a crime in Canada to provide assistance to someone in ending their own life, however, this paradigm was inverted in 2015 when the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled that restrictions on this practice, within certain defined ...
Earlier this month, the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario released news reports highlighting some of the reasons Canadians have chosen medical assistance in dying (MAiD, which in Canada involves euthanasia—meaning medically-administered injection rather than self-administered—over 99.9% of the ...
A new study of people who received medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Ontario found that about three-quarters were cared for by palliative care practitioners at the time of their request for MAiD, and MAiD recipients were younger, wealthier and more likely to be married than the general po...
“Canada’s MAID (medical assistance in dying) system is criticized as the most permissive or least safeguarded in the world, raising the question of whether it could protect patients who fit the clinical profile of adult victims of HSK (health-care serial killers) from a killer working as a...
12028#Background:Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was legalized in Canada in 2016. Cancer accounts for 60-70% of MAiD cases, though little is known about the demographic profile, cancer diagnoses, and treatments received in patients with cancer who pursue MAiD. We reviewed all patients with...
The availability of willing providers of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canada has been an issue since a Canadian Supreme Court decision and the subsequent passing of federal legislation, Bill C14, decriminalised MAiD in 2016. Following this legislation, Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) in ...
Recent headlines have highlighted debates among federal parties over the proposal to extend Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) to people suffering solely with mental illness.Proponents of expanding Bill C-7 to mental illness claim that delays to do so are based on stigma and stereotypes promoting ...