Bill C-7 has created ethical tensions between MAID providers and palliative care, between transparency and patient privacy, and between offering a dignified death rather than a dignified life.
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The fundamental underpinning of all MAID requests is supposed to be the presence of an incurable medical condition, but it’s not possible to predict that a mental illness will not improve.
Expanding access to medical assistance in dying (MAID) to those not terminally ill puts vulnerable people at risk of feeling pressured into MAID, and doctors at risk of being forced to facilitate it.
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Associate Adjunct Professor of Disability Ethics, John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta
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Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Lethbridge
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Associate Professor, Public Health and Alberta Innovates Research Chair, University of Lethbridge
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Research Associate - Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge
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Division Chair & Associate Professor of Palliative Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
