The organization says that about 15% of all donors in the past year had received MAID, adding that the vast majority of them—about 85%—had been diagnosed with neurodegenerative or neurological disease.
As a philosophy professor and researcher of end-of-life ethics, I ask the students in my ethics class who should be eligible to receive Medical Assistance in Dying.
Justice Minister David Lametti said during a news conference that the government has heard concerns the healthcare system might not be prepared to handle those complicated cases.
Revelations that some Canadian veterans have been offered medically assisted deaths while seeking help from the federal government are adding to worries about Ottawa's plans to expand such procedures.
Madeline has lived with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS, for more than 30 years after contracting mononucleosis twice in her younger years.
The organization's annual report for 2021, Navigating a World in Transition, covers the key moves for last year, as well as what's coming up in the rest of 2022.
