But in the province’s eastern region, which includes the capital of St. John’s and is home to roughly three-fifths of the provincial population, the number of people seeking medically assisted death climbed from 16 in 2019 to 107 in 2022, McKim said in his briefing note. There were 37 requests in the first quarter of 2023.
Each application for MAID must be evaluated by at least two assessors, who can be doctors or nurse practitioners. Seven medical professionals did 75 per cent of the primary assessments for all requests in the region between 2016 and Aug. 31, 2021, McKim’s note said. Eight people did 76 per cent of the primary assessments in 2022.
Okay, now I better understand your argument. I was ready to just dismiss you as a crank.
I agree with you that governments should not be in the death business. But they already are, in a sense, in their legislation of things like murder, negligence causing death, etc.
I think that proper legislation would allow for someone to help me carry out my wishes in dignified ways that are less traumatic to those I leave behind. Obviously, that means regulation to ensure that nobody is imposing their will on mine.
At the very least, I don’t want anyone charged with negligence just because they didn’t stop me from taking what turns out to be my final swim.
I mean my original comment on comment action was a quote from the article so hardly a crank. I was just giving context and sorta assume the first comment was done without reading the article, but maybe you mean once I was responding to the response as that where it became more of a debate. But yeah I just don’t want to lose the right to die if my life circumstance is aweful.
Yeah, I probably shouldn’t have written the “crank” bit. It seems my battle against stream of consciousness writing continues…
My apologies.
oh no worries. you were just expressing yourself. online communication without facial expressions and queues and such is always difficult. I enjoy little extended convos like this. makes the internet feel a bit more civilized.
Ok, good. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but I agree that engaging for long enough to go beyond hot takes is nice.