Canada is right to let people with chronic conditions choose death when their living conditions make life intolerable, a new paper argues
had opted for a doctor-assisted death after struggling for years to receive proper medical care for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a rare and painful condition caused by excessively fragile connective tissue throughout the body.Article content
Critics of a more permissive assisted death regime argue that those living without the medical or disability supports they need are being driven to choose MAID, and can’t truly give voluntary, informed consent.Article content The fact that better supports aren’t provided is “abhorrent,” she and Wiebe wrote, and constitutes a deep injustice.
When last year’s cases dominated the news, Wiebe said she saw a lot of rhetoric arguing that because people were making a choice they might not have made in better circumstances, they were, as a result, not making a fully autonomous choice. They see theirs as a harm reduction argument, that “the least harmful way forward is to allow MAID to be available.”
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