As the number of dementia patients in Canada continues to climb, so do calls to allow advance requests for medical assistance in dying (MAID).
Similar to the debate over expanding MAID to those suffering solely from mental illness, it’s another sign that the Canadian government is far from finished wading through the complexities of the end-of-life procedure.
There’s currently a petition before the House of Commons requesting a Criminal Code amendment to allow people facing a capacity-diminishing diagnosis to request MAID in advance. It was authorized by Yukon MP Brendan Hanley and today has more than 13,000 signatures.
“The advance request lets you say, ‘I know I’m going to
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