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From multiple perspectives: Far left: https://jacobin.com/2023/01/canada-medically-assisted-dying-poverty-disability-eugenics-euthanasia https://jacobin.com/20
by apollo_mojave 3y ago
From multiple perspectives:
Far left: https://jacobin.com/2023/01/canada-medically-assisted-dying-poverty-disability-eugenics-euthanasia https://jacobin.com/2023/01/canada-medically-assisted-dying-...
Center left (citing multiple troubling cases reported in public media):
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/canada-legalized-medical-assisted-suicide-euthanasia-death-maid/673790/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/canada-...
Academic literature:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/palliative-and-supportive-care/article/realities-of-medical-assistance-in-dying-in-canada/3105E6A45E04DFA8602D54DF91A2F568 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/palliative-and-suppo...
And Canadian media:
https://globalnews.ca/news/10023956/maid-prisons-canada/ https://globalnews.ca/news/10023956/maid-prisons-canada/
https://globalnews.ca/news/9888810/suicidal-bc-woman-medically-assisted-death/ https://globalnews.ca/news/9888810/suicidal-bc-woman-medical...
https://globalnews.ca/news/9784867/ontario-quadriplegic-mother-applies-medically-assisted-death/ https://globalnews.ca/news/9784867/ontario-quadriplegic-moth...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/maid-access-debate-contentious-1.6300345 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/maid-access-debate-contenti...
A "bad apple" sort of scenario but disturbing nonetheless:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/veterans-maid-rcmp-investigation-1.6663885 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/veterans-maid-rcmp-investig...
Finally:
"Dr. Sonu Gaind, psychiatrist-in-chief at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, expressed concern about how the report describes people who accessed MAID whose natural deaths were not reasonably foreseeable. According to the report, 3.5 per cent of all MAID recipients — 463 people — did not have reasonably foreseeable deaths."
A small percentage, true, but it will grow absent efforts to limit these situations.