Not long before I joined Dying With Dignity Canada , my friend Bill was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
Currently, the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying—a joint committee of members of Parliament and the Senate—is undertaking a review of Canada’s medical assistance in dying legislation and its application. The committee is examining advance requests, mature minors, mental illness, the state of palliative care in Canada and the protection of Canadians with disabilities.
Today, 86 per cent of Canadians support the Carter decision, and an astounding 82 per cent support the removal of the “reasonably foreseeable” death eligibility requirement that was introduced last year. Canadians don’t seem conflicted on MAID; they are overwhelmingly supportive of the law and continue to consider changes that broaden access for those who are not eligible. So when I hear the topic of MAID referred to as “controversial,” I admit I am surprised.
In the situations where palliative care was not accessed prior to MAID, it was available to the patient 88.5 per cent of the time.
DWDCanada Instead of improving the Healthcare in Canada, they made a choice to kill Canadian. Build new hospitals, open walk-in clinics, raise up salaries for nurses, increase the numbers of doctors , help people with Mental health and disabilities instead, you offer death to people. 😱
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DWDCanada Sure it’s the majority of Canadians!! The only ones who want it are the ones who depend on the government to take care of them in life & now in death! Those who are self sufficient desire that government leave them alone!
DWDCanada Encouraging suicide is disgusting
DWDCanada It must be a good idea, look how happy she is.
DWDCanada Macleans' position on this issue, and your positioning of Long in such a positive light, is proof of the editors' own myopia on the issue. DisabilityFili1
DWDCanada With the way healthcare is treatment has to be rationed out carefully. Of course it is another thing entirely to be cajoled into giving up the ghost.
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