In Newfoundland, a handful of practitioners are taking on skyrocketing MAID requests
In Newfoundland, a handful of practitioners are taking on skyrocketing MAID requests
In Newfoundland, a handful of practitioners are taking on skyrocketing MAID requests
But in the province's eastern region, which includes the capital of St. John's and is home to roughly three-fifths of the provincial population, the number of people seeking medically assisted death climbed from 16 in 2019 to 107 in 2022, McKim said in his briefing note. There were 37 requests in the first quarter of 2023.
Each application for MAID must be evaluated by at least two assessors, who can be doctors or nurse practitioners. Seven medical professionals did 75 per cent of the primary assessments for all requests in the region between 2016 and Aug. 31, 2021, McKim's note said. Eight people did 76 per cent of the primary assessments in 2022.
"The overwhelming majority of requests were for track-one medically assisted deaths, which are cases where a natural death is foreseeable."
Sort of an important detail although death by economic despair is also important to realize is very much a thing
This is not about mentally ill people, this is about people with stage 4 cancer, ALS, and other diseases which cannot be treated, who have a choice between dying in moderate pain now and dying in excruciating pain less than a year down the road, but are physically unable to go find a bridge and throw themselves off. I agree that any other uses of MAID need extremely careful scrutiny, but the person who accused you of throwing the baby out with the bathwater was right on the mark. Making terminally ill people suffer out of a misguided notion of morality benefits no one.
By bringing up eugenics, you're making the claim that specific groups of people are being pressured to request MAID. Where's your evidence? Extraordinary assertions need extraordinary proof.
Anyone that wants to end their life should be able to do so, regardless of their condition, as long as they are considered sound of mind by the current standards.
There should be a rigorous process, but at the end of that process, if the person still want to end their life, then they should have the opportunity to do so with dignity and no pain.
Did you even bother to read the article? Or is your snap judgment of a headline sufficient information? It's very saddening to see this sort of dimness is addressing a real problem for many, many Canadians.