Canada’s expansion of MAiD for people with mental illness alone has sparked intense debate among psychologists, psychiatrists ...

Canada has taken step after step to expand citizens’ access to euthanasia ever since 2016, when it first legalized the practice it euphemistically labeled “medical assistance in death,” or MAID.

Proponents of legalized physician-assisted suicide often couch their arguments in the verbiage of pain and dignity. They say that people with terminal and agonizing conditions should be offered the ...

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 ...

On March 10, 2021, Andrée Dubord was taken to a hospital in Quebec City. Diagnosed with colon cancer, she was told by doctors that she must undergo surgery and after that would have to live with a ...

When Savannah Meadows had lunch last October with her mother, Sharon Turcott, Meadows was "all smiles," the mother told CBS News. "Maybe she's turned a corner," Turcott recalled thinking about her ...

As Canada approaches the ten-year mark of legalized doctor-assisted death, the number of annual deaths appears to be plateauing, according to the federal government’s latest report on medical ...

On December 5, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill making Illinois the 12 th state in the United States to legalize medically assisted suicide. The United States can learn from Canada’s expansion of ...

Earlier this month, the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario released new reports highlighting some of the reasons some Canadians have chosen medical assistance in dying (MAiD, which in Canada ...