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Monitoring of MAID: Deficits of Transparency and Accountability
Monitoring of MAIDMonitoring of MAID was recognised as an essential component of the MAID program. However, monitoring started late in the rollout of...
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MAID Practice and Impact
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada is an ongoing project. Required by a court order in 2015, legalized in 2016 and amended in 2021, it was...
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MAID: Pasts, Present, and Futures
Others have carefully described the history of MAID in CanadaCanada and its ramifications, legal and social. This short piece attempts to consider...
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Federal Annual Reports on MAID: Informative but Incomplete Picture
Annual Reports on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) issued by Health CanadaCanada on behalf of the Government of Canada strive to make essential...
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Examining Indigenous Perspectives on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)
This chapter draws attention to IndigenousIndigenous perspectivesIndigenous perspectives on MAID policies, reviewing the public record on Indigenous...
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Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) and Suicide: A Community Perspective
The introduction of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) legislation in 2016 has affected the suicide prevention community in significant ways. People...
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MAID for Persons with Mental Illness as a Sole Eligibility Criterion
The practice of EuthanasiaEuthanasia and Assisted SuicideSuicide (EAS), referred to in CanadaCanada as “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID), evolved...
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“We Should Not Lightly Assume”: A Review of Legislative, Regulatory and Jurisprudential Developments of MAID Safeguards
In the Supreme CourtSupreme Court of Canada of CanadaCanada decision of Carter v. CanadaCarter v. Canada (Attorney General) 2015, the Court approved...
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A qualitative study of experiences of institutional objection to medical assistance in dying in Canada: ongoing challenges and catalysts for change
BackgroundIn June 2016, Canada legalized medical assistance in dying (MAiD). From the outset, some healthcare institutions (including faith-based and...
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Medical assistance in dying for people living with mental disorders: a qualitative thematic review
BackgroundMedical assistance in dying (MAiD) sparks debate in several countries, some of which allow or plan to allow MAiD where a mental disorder is...
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Introducing Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Lessons on Pragmatic Ethics and the Implementation of a Morally Contested Practice
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada has had a tumultuous social and legal history. In the 6 years since assisted dying was decriminalized by...
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Palliative Care and Medical Assistance in Dying
Palliative care differs fundamentally from MAiD in its philosophy, intention and approach. While access to MAiD has been guaranteed as a right in...
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Implementation of Medical Assistance in Dying as Organizational Ethics Challenge: A Method of Engagement for Building Trust, Kee** Peace and Transforming Practice
This paper focuses on the ethics of how to approach the introduction of MAiD as an organizational ethics challenge, a focus that diverges from the...
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Implementing Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Implications for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The Canadian law on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) is an attempt to balance various constitutional rights of individuals with society’s interest...
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Integrating Medical Assistance in Dying into Health Care: Processes and Challenges
Medical Assistance in Dying or MAiD poses procedurally complex challenges that can be a major source of distress to both, the providers as well as...
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From Prohibition to Permission: The Winding Road of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada
In this paper, I offer a personal and professional narrative of how Canada went from prohibition to permission for medical assistance in dying...
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Feminist Approaches to Medical Aid in Dying: Identifying a Path Forward
This essay addresses feminist approaches to medical aid in dying (MAID), considering whether it is a practice that should be supported for women and...
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Suffering as a Criterion for Medical Assistance in Dying
Canada has followed the pattern of Benelux nations by legislating sufferingSuffering as the pivotal eligibilityEligibility criterionCriterion for...
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From a Court Judgement to Federal Law
The goals of this chapter are to provide a concise and accessible overview of: the key events leading up to the legalization in CanadaCanada of...
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Objections to assisted dying within institutions: systemic solutions for rapprochement
In this Matters Arising article, we outline how the recent article “The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a...