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Joan Bryden February 03, 2021 - 3:03 PM
OTTAWA - Senators have been presented with two starkly different descriptions of what it s like to receive medical assistance in dying in Canada: a beautiful, peaceful death or a painful end akin to drowning.
The duelling descriptions came from two doctors during testimony Tuesday night at the Senate s legal and constitutional affairs committee, which is scrutinizing Bill C-7.
The bill would expand Canada s five-year-old regime for medical assistance in dying (MAID) to include people who are suffering intolerably but not near the end of their natural lives.
Dr. Timothy Holland, a Nova Scotia MAID assessor and provider, said for patients the procedure is a relaxing drift into sleep.
Doctors offer duelling views of what it s like to receive an assisted death
by Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press
Posted Feb 3, 2021 4:00 am EDT
Last Updated Feb 3, 2021 at 4:14 am EDT
OTTAWA Senators have been presented with two starkly different descriptions of what it’s like to receive medical assistance in dying in Canada: a beautiful, peaceful death or a painful end akin to drowning.
The duelling descriptions came from two doctors during testimony Tuesday night at the Senate’s legal and constitutional affairs committee, which is scrutinizing Bill C-7.
The bill would expand Canada’s five-year-old regime for medical assistance in dying (MAID) to include people who are suffering intolerably but not near the end of their natural lives.
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B.C. needs an independent agency to investigate civil rights violations in long-term care
The biggest problem for citizens living in long-term care facilities is they have no practical way to enforce their civil rights, writes Paul Caune, an advocate for people with disabilities.
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The biggest problem for citizens living in long-term care (LTC) facilities is they have no practical way to enforce their civil rights, writes Paul Caune, an advocate for people with disabilities. (Ben Nelms/CBC)