I’m old enough to remember when it was called “killing” – and so is Danielle Smith;
Doctor-assisted death, often called MAID, Medical Assistance in Dying, will be prohibited for those under 18, persons whose only underlying medical condition is a mental illness and individuals without the capacity to make their own health-care decisions. So-called advance requests, pre-approvals for assisted dying before a person loses the capacity to provide informed consent, will also be prohibited.
MAID will also be prohibited where a natural death is not “reasonably foreseeable.” Those where natural death is determined by a doctor or nurse practitioner to be “reasonably foreseeable” will be eligible for MAID. “Reasonably foreseeable” means when their natural death is likely to happen within 12 months.
A couple more points.
Doctors and nurse practitioners in Alberta WILL NOT be able to refer people to get assessments outside Alberta on whether they are eligible for MAID. Doctors and nurse practitioners who have moral or religious objections to MAID will have the right to refuse to assess a person for an assisted death or provide one.
Hope the link works. Monty Python “I’m not dead”.
https://youtu.be/EfOW9QrLs0o
“I feel fine”.
Medically Accelerated Intentional Death, and the biggest “advocate” should properly be considered a serial killer.
Excuse me for asking, but why does it take expensive , highly trained and busy medical personnel to kill you.
It’s simple enough.
Gangsters , hit men, hangmen, and soldiers do it all the time.
Curious minds need to know
Because it’s got to be the Canadian way. Excessively bureaucratic.
Wannabe MAID people could:
Jump off a cliff
Jump off a building
Jump off a bridge
Exhaust fumes locked in a garage.
Slit their wrists
Watch CBC for 48 hours.
Ok, ok. But yes, couldn’t they just give you a single Final Pill? Yup, they sure could.
Excessively bureaucratic.
Doesn’t appear to be much bureaucracy when you can die the same day you apply…
Saskatchewan needs to adopt these common sense policies too. MAID has turned from death with dignity into a cost cutting tool for government healthcare. A cautionary tale illustrating the slippery slope where a well intentioned policy becomes an inhumane killing machine under the direction of politicians, activists and bureaucrats.
“… into a cost cutting tool for government healthcare.”
– EXACTLY correct; couldn’t have said it better myself. Well put, Sir!
If you think this is great legislation you would likely change your mind if someone close to you is dying a slow, horrible death from dementia or Alzheimer’s. My sister-in-law started having memory issues in 2016 after going through chemotherapy. Chemo can trigger Alzheimer’s or dementia. It has been a long slow descent into hell for both her and my brother. Since there is still no cure it would have been very helpful if she could have given preapproval for my brother to authorize MAID for her when things got bad enough. But although a doctor may have said she wasn’t cognitive enough of the decision even several years ago she was still mobile around their house and able to communicate with others. She would hug people without remembering who they were at all. She is now bedridden in a care home, sleeps most of the time, and cannot communicate with anybody either by words or writing.(Some patients lose the ability to speak, some do not). She is only 73 years old and was physically healthy otherwise so unfortunately it will be a long slow death. Just like what happened to her mother. Her mother took ten years to die in a care home and it was brutal. As long as they can still eat and drink they continue to survive but they are in a confused and often terrifying world. Their mind is a constant blank. She even lost the ability to go to the bathroom herself when she was still at home a couple of years ago. Just couldn’t remember how to relieve herself with a toilet and wiper herself clean. Humans treat their pets better than this but there is no choice unless there is a way for preapproval of MAID for people with these horrible diseases. I pretty much always agree with Danielle Smith’s common sense. I am not on board this time.
I’ve had and have extended family members with dementia, so understand completely that argument.
Unfortunately, these ghouls now seek ever expanding rationales to kill people who don’t suffer from irreversible decline. The perverse economic incentive (cost savings for the system) makes it doubly dangerous, and it’s not unreasonable to view doctors who agree to perform it in those expanded criteria as psychologically suspect (at best).
Not just psychologically suspect. Ethically suspect and wholly unqualified for the profession.
BTW, everyone’s death is reasonably foreseeable. It’s the price of admission.
Unfortunately, these ghouls now seek ever expanding rationales to kill people who don’t suffer from irreversible decline.
Precisely. The qualifying bar gets lowered every week. What’s next? A terminal hangnail?
Valid points but when they’re happy to kill people who are depressed then they’ve gone too far.
Our country has killed more people in the past few years than people killed in every other manner. That alone means it’s being used to get rid of ‘burdens’ to our pathetic healthcare system.
Anybody else find it strange that MAID is considered “compassionate” but capital punishment for murderers is “cruel and unusual”?
Nope. Typical [spit] Prog evidence-based rationale. Not hypocrisy at all.
Different issue. Israel’s use of capital punishment is illustrative – they’ve executed two people. One was Adolf Eichmann – no question there. The other was an IDF Captain they convicted of spying for Syria, who was found not guilty after he’d been executed. That’s “50% innocent”, if you’re keeping score.
The chance of killing an innocent man is one of my three arguments against C.P. Another one is, deterrence works – but only if swiftly applied. If you execute the murderer within 30 days while people still remember the murder, it’ll have an effect – otherwise it doesn’t, and the Canadian and U.S. systems are illustrative; it could take decades.
My final objection is how governments use it – a candidate for president didn’t attend one televised debate because he was Governor of his State, and he stayed home to supervise an execution that night – it would make him look “tough on crime”. When venal politicians with interested motives use the taking of human life as a political football, the system is rotten.
So what would I do instead? A murderer’s cell door doesn’t have a lock; it has a pad, and we toss him into the cell and the door is welded shut, and he doesn’t get out until his remains fit through the bars. “But That’s CRUEL!!!” – it’s not as cruel as what we’d like to do to him. And if he’s subsequently found innocent we grind the welds off, sincerely apologize, give him a million dollars for every year he was in that cell, and set him free.
And if Canada still executed people, a case could be made for indicting a whole lot of medical practitioners who’ve been handing-out MAID like seegars at a carnival, and administrators who’ve made our medical system one of the world’s most prolific sources of transplant organs by harvesting MAID subjects. Yep – the system is rotten.
Absolutely you go Danielle.
Also noticed on the front page of the blob and schmael. Two front page attacks or smear jobs by the bought and paid for hacks at the newspaper so called. one on her seeking a security clearance and the other on Alberta health services.