Using Suffering as Strategy in Politics to Push an Anti-MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) Agenda A clinical and ethical critique of how MAID has been turned into a moral panic that replaces analysis with fear and outrage.

Clinician Suzz Sandalwood discusses how some political messaging around #MedicalAssistanceInDying replaces worthwhile critical analysis with potentially harmful appeals to emotion. In this piece, she gives factual context in response to anxieties stoked by such messaging: https://ow.ly/tZw450Y9bhz

Canadian Mother OUTRAGED Over Doctor Euthanizing Mentally Ill Son!

#TheJimmyDoreShow #JimmyDore #EllenWeibe #MargaretMarsilla #KianoVafaeian #MAID #MedicalAssistanceInDying #Canada #BritishColumbia
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Medical Assistance in Dying: A Conversation Across Law, Medicine and Faith - Beth Tzedec Join us as Beth Tzedec hosts a Symposium on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)—exploring its legal, medical and halakhic perspectives. Experts Zohar Levy, Dr. Sandy Buchman and Rabbi Steve Wernick will lead a thought-provoking roundtable […]

Feb 5 at 7:30 pm ET, MAiDHouse Board member Zohar Levy & co-founder Dr. Sandy Buchman join Rabbi Steve Wernick at Beth Tzedec Congregation for a symposium on #MedicalAssistanceInDying , exploring its legal, medical and halakhic perspectives.

Learn more and register at https://ow.ly/GolG50Y6G0y

Featured is the cover of the Canadian Journal of MAiD's Fall 2025 issue. This is Volume 1, Issue 1 of the journal.

The Canadian Journal of #MAiD : a new scholarly home for an evolving field.

This new, open access publication features peer-reviewed articles and provides a forum for clinicians to share their real-world experience in the approach to #medicalassistanceindying .

Learn more at https://maidjournal.ca

Photo of a person typing on a laptop. Under the photo, text reads, "Are you a family member of a person who received Track 2 MAiD? You may be eligible to participate in research to inform policy and practice."

Are you a family member of a person who received Track 2 #MedicalAssistanceInDying ?

You may be eligible to participate in research to inform policy and practice.

For more information please visit https://ow.ly/zNnN50XQ7oj or email maid.research@ubc.ca

Cover of the Sixth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada with a soft green, blue, and purple abstract background.

The Sixth Annual Report on #MedicalAssistanceInDying ( #MAiD ) was published yesterday (Nov 28, 2025). This report provides a summary of data on MAiD requests, assessments and provisions in #Canada for the 2024 calendar year.

Read the report: https://ow.ly/LaOW50XzftM

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Medical assistance in dying (MAID) became legal in Canada in 2016. Since then, more than 60,000 people have died with MAID. Kelley Korbin writes for Chatelaine Magazine about the laws around it, and what it was like to support her father through MAID after he was diagnosed with terminal lung […]

MAID minus four - Thursday, November 15, 2018 — Celia Chandler, Writer MAID minus 4 - a day in the life of a caregiver/wife

THROWBACK: from the caregiving trenches

Seven years ago today, Jack set the date to die four days later.

#MAiD #dyingwithdignity #medicallyassisteddeath #medicalassistanceindying #Caregiving

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Bookends 92-29 Reflecting on two deaths in two days

Reflections on #grief #loss and #spirtuality.

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#MedicalAssistanceinDying #dyingwithdignity #MAID #disability #humanism

When a spouse chooses Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), it can result in feelings and experiences that are different than with other deaths.

This support group takes place from Oct 15th-Nov 19th. For more information visit our website.

#MAID #MedicalAssistanceInDying

When a spouse chooses Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), it can result in feelings and experiences that are different than with other deaths.

This support group takes place from Oct 15th-Nov 19th. For more information visit our website.

#MAID #MedicalAssistanceInDying

MAiD should not be a response to depression Canadians need real mental health support, not state-sanctioned suicide

"Canadians need real mental health support, not state-sanctioned suicide." Read Daniel Zekveld's new editorial on medical assistance in dying (MAiD):

www.whiteroseintelligence.com/blog/maid-sh... #MAID #medicalassistanceindying #canada #mentalhealth #depression

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Are you a family member of a person who received Track 2 #MedicalAssistanceInDying ?

You may be eligible to participate in research to inform policy and practice.

For more information head to pesut-lab.sites.olt.ubc.ca/toward-effec... or email maid.research@ubc.ca

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Research Focus: Psychiatry Service; Assistant Attending

When death is desired: A case of MAiD & the CL psychiatrist
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#MAiD #MedicalAssistanceInDying #ConsultLiaisonPsychiatry #EOLCare #DeathWithDignity

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[suicide, mental health]

Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton): "I almost died by suicide fifteen years ago while battling depression. If the expansion of MAID coming into force in 2027 were in place then, I'd likely be dead right now. Today, I'm launching the #IGotBetter campaign to keep hope alive […]

On this day in 2016, Julia Lamb and the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association launched a Charter challenge to the federal medical assistance in dying (MAID) legislation. (1/6)

#OnThisDayInHistory #CanadianHistory #DisabilityJustice #MedicalAssistanceInDying

New York Moves to Allow Terminally Ill People to Die on Their Own Terms

News from around the 🌍: The New York State Senate has approved a bill that would legalize medical assistance in dying for people who have an incurable & irreversible illness, w/ six months or less to live.

Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/n...

#MedicalAssistanceInDying #HumanRights #DeathSky

Medical assistance in dying: Quebecer's journey for right to make advance MAID request Last fall, Quebec became one of the few places in the world to authorize advance requests for medical assistance in dying (MAID), and from October 30 to April 17, nearly 650 Quebecers filled out a for...

Last fall, Quebec authorized advance requests for #medicalassistanceindying . Sandra Demontigny, a Quebec resident who lives with early-onset Alzheimer’s, was among those who fought for this right. In this piece from City News Montreal, she shares her story:

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They laughed and told stories. Then, in a quiet moment, Robin realized: her dad was ready to go. A tender reflection on MAID and presence.
Full episode Thursday: www.comfortingclosure.com/multimedia
#EndOfLifeDoula #DeathDoula #MedicalAssistanceInDying

Legislation outlines end-of-life medication waiting periods and provider responsibilities New guidelines establish mandatory waiting periods for end-of-life medication prescriptions

Pennsylvania lawmakers are at a crossroads, debating Senate Bill 570, which could redefine end-of-life care by giving terminally ill patients the right to choose a peaceful exit.

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#PA #CitizenPortal #HealthcareEthics #PennsylvaniaEndOfLife #MedicalAssistanceInDying

UN disability rights report on assisted-dying regime deserves a fair hearing Canadians deserve to know that our political party leaders will take seriously the report calling for reforms to the medical assistance in dying regime as we head to the polls.

Canadians deserve to know that our political party leaders will take seriously the #UN report calling for reforms to the medical assistance in dying regime as we head to the polls, says Dr. Catherine Frazee
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#cdnpoli #MAiD #medicalassistanceindying #disability

Her father has decided to end his own life through medical assistance in dying in seven days. What will Rachel do next?

Listen to IN SEVEN DAYS today, on PlayME: lnk.to/PlayMeCBC

#Podcasts #AudioDrama #CanadianTheatre #maid #medicalassistanceindying #jewishcanadian

📣Press Release
Canada under review at @ungeneva.bsky.social
▶️Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recommends to repeal Track 2 Medical Assistance in Dying
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Life After Review - Sarah G. Vincent Views Sarah G. Vincent Views' hot take on Life After

New review: Life After
#LifeAfter #ReidDavenport #CA #Canada #euthanasia #ElizabethBouvia #JerikaBolen #HemlockSociety #CompassionandChoices #JackKevorkian #PeterSinger #MedicalAssistanceinDying #SarahJama #DisabilityJusticeNetwork #MichaelHickson
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Fifth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada, 2023 - Canada.ca The Fifth Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada provides a summary of MAID requests, assessments and provisions for the 2023 calendar year.

The Government of #Canada has released the Fifth Annual Report on #MedicalAssistanceInDying ( #MAiD ) in Canada. This report provides important insight into who requests and receives MAiD, and how and where it is delivered.

Read the report at Health Canada: www.canada.ca/en/health-ca...

What are your thoughts on MAID regarding mental health? I did a paper on it in university and would like to get some other opinions #MAID #medicalassistanceindying #mentalhealth

Given the news out of the UK regarding #MedicalAssistanceInDying #MAiD #DeathWithDignity here's some thoughts and background from the USA context, specifically Oregon. #endoflife #bioethics #palliativecare #medsky #spiritualcare. 1/x

The cover of Sarah Leavitt's book, "Something, Not Nothing." Along with the title and author's name, the cover features an illustration of wilting flowers, two people laying beside one another with gentle, loving smiles on their faces, and behind them, what looks like a crocodile's head with sharp teeth, lurking in the shadows.

In April 2020, Sarah’s partner of 22 years, Domino, received #medicalassistanceindying . Shortly after her partner’s death, Sarah began drawing again. The result is a beautiful, impressionist rendering of her journey of #loss and bereavement in the two years that followed Domino’s death.

Disability rights groups launching Charter challenge against MAID law | CBC News A coalition of disability rights groups says it is launching a Charter challenge against a part of Canada's law on medical assistance in dying.

This part of the law on MAID needs to be struck down #medicalassistanceindying #poverty #disabilities #MAID #Canada
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