Canada’s expanding assisted suicide legislation combined with countrywide insufficient palliative care resources are causing case numbers of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) to rise, say physicians and hospice workers. Testifying before the parliamentary joint committee on MAiD on Oct. 18, Dipti Purbhoo, executive director of Dorothy Ley Hospice in Toronto, said the varied access to palliative care…
Expanded Legislation, Insufficient Palliative Care Resources Are Causing Assisted Suicide Numbers to Rise in Canada, Say Physicians
‘Not Enough Supports’: Manitoba Woman Chose Assisted Suicide Due to Lack of Home Care
A Manitoba woman received medical assistance in dying on Oct. 3 because she was unable to receive adequate medical care at home and did not want to move into a health-care facility as an alternative. Sathya Dhara Kovac, a resident of Winnipeg, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a nervous system disease that progressively affects nerve cells…
Canada’s Liberalized Assisted Death Laws: Manitoba Woman Chose Assisted Suicide Due to Lack of Home Care
A Manitoba woman received medical assistance in dying on Oct. 3 because she was unable to receive adequate medical care at home and did not want to move into a health-care facility as an alternative. Canada has the most permissive assisted death law in the world, and will be expanding eligibility criteria further next year….
Delta Hospice Society Says Mayor’s Call to Redirect Charity Funds ‘Chilling’
Delta Hospice Society (DHS) president Angelina Ireland is calling the actions of Delta’s mayor “chilling” after he urged B.C. Premier John Horgan to redirect private funds from the society’s thrift shop to a hospice facility formerly run by the charity. DHS found itself in controversy last year following a provincial directive to require provincially-funded hospices…
Barbara Kay: Weasel Words and the Slippery Slope of Assisted Death
Commentary Misleading language is a friend to tyrants, for whom it works as a placebo against public unrest. In Russia, the charged words “war against Ukraine” are forbidden. Russians must use the more soothingly anodyne “special military operation.” Ideologues are also masters of the weasel-word craft. In the domain of euthanasia, a concept tainted with…
Australia to Invest $56 Million to Improve Palliative Care
The Australian government has announced a $56 million (US$39.7 million) investment that would benefit some 50 to 90 percent of the 160,000 Australians who need end of life and palliative care as they approach death. Primary Health Networks (PHN) across Australia will receive more than $37 million (US$26.2 million) to expand the Greater Choice for At Home…
Witness Urges Senate to Kill Medical Assistance in Dying Bill in Final Round of Committee Hearing
Gabrielle Peters is a writer with disabilities who lives on one of the lowest incomes in Canada. She was admitted to a hospital in Vancouver following the onset of a rare autoimmune system disease in 2009. Soon after, her partner left her to become homeless after the disease made her unable to work. But she…
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