| From multiple perspectives: Far left: 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-... Academic literature: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/palliative-and-suppo... And Canadian media: https://globalnews.ca/news/10023956/maid-prisons-canada/ https://globalnews.ca/news/9888810/suicidal-bc-woman-medical... https://globalnews.ca/news/9784867/ontario-quadriplegic-moth... 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-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. |