Since then, MAID has morphed from being a last resort to an option among many: a path for those suffering from chronic ...

The euthanasia conference was held at a Sheraton. Some 300 Canadian professionals, most of them clinicians, had arrived for the annual event. There were lunch buffets and complimentary tote bags; ...

Paula Ritchie wasn’t dying, but under Canada’s new rules, she qualified for a medically assisted death. Was that kindness or cruelty? “I cannot get through a day,” Paula had said at an assessment for ...

Canada’s MAID law, which expanded the right to die to people without a terminal illness, raises ethical and medical dilemmas. By Katie Engelhart In 2023, one out of 20 Canadians who died received a ...

In 2016, Canada legalized medical assistance in dying (MAID) for adults with a severe and irreversible illness, disease or disability. Social media posts sharing photos of a pamphlet referring to MAID ...

Canadian children’s book author Robert Munsch is getting candid following his 2021 dementia diagnosis. In an interview with the New York Times published on Sept. 14, Munsch, 80, revealed that he has ...

The legalization of medical assistance in dying (MAID) in Canada has led to disproportionately high rates of premature deaths among vulnerable groups, according to a recent Cardus Health report.

For years, advocates of legalizing physician-assisted suicide have recited a comforting refrain: Don’t worry, they assure skeptics worried about the dangers of allowing doctors to prescribe lethal ...

Cardus Health, an organization that aims to foster a social system that supports natural death and helps institutions care for patients approaching the end of life, conducted the report. According to ...