Schow said the federal government's failure to build appropriate safeguards into MAID has forced the province to act ...

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 ...

Serious questions have been raised about the implementation and direction of the euthanasia program in Canada known as Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAiD. In line with warnings made in previous ...

In Canada, physician-assisted suicide is available even to people who aren’t suffering from terminal illnesses. In the context of austerity, this often means people are offered death rather than the ...

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; ...

Heather Hancock is contending with cerebral palsy and medical professionals who asked if she wanted to opt for medically assisted death. Courtesy of Heather Hancock Heather Hancock suffers from ...

Christopher Lyon, Ph.D., is a Canadian social scientist at the University of York in the United Kingdom. He witnessed his father’s death under Canada’s Medical Aid in Dying program and recently ...

Demand from the millions of patients worldwide who need an organ transplant greatly outpaces supply, leaving organ donation policy ripe for perverse incentives. In the United States, an average of 13 ...