How a B.C. court case could change medical assistance in dying across Canada

The policy that allows faith-based health-care providers to ban medical assistance in dying in their facilities is being tested now in B.C. Supreme Court. But transfers of MAID patients because the ...
Medical Xpress

How do health care professionals determine eligibility for medical assistance in dying?

How do health care professionals in Canada assess applicants for medical assistance in dying (MAiD)? A research article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) describes the careful approach ...
Psychology Today

Grief Is Complex After Medical Assistance in Dying

This article was co-authored by Lauren Rudolph and Robert Muller, Ph.D. “It was one of the most complex experiences I’ve ever gone through. It came with a horrific sense of impending doom, while ...

Canadian mom ‘devastated’ after son euthanized under controversial law

Canadian mom devastated after she says diabetic and blind son was euthanized under controversial law - Kiano Vafaeian, 26, ...

B.C. government struck compromise with assisted dying policy, court hears

Current and former Ministry of Health officials took the stand this week to describe the origins of the province’s medical ...
Yahoo

Family of woman forced to transfer for medical assistance in dying takes case to court

Gaye O’Neill, mother of Samantha O’Neill, is pictured outside of the BC Supreme Court, with Sam's father, Jim, at her side. (Ben Nelms/CBC - image credit) Proceedings got underway in B.C. Supreme ...
The Chosun Ilbo on MSNOpinion

Farewell without suffering: Medical assistance in dying

A rundown rental apartment on the outskirts of Seoul. In unit 701 lives “Myeongju.” In her late 70s, Myeongju had been caring ...