New legislation would prevent anyone in Alberta from accessing medical assistance in dying (MAID) if they are unlikely to die within the next 12 months.
Personally I find this terrible. If they wanted to reduce MAID applications they should be funding effective healthcare. Practicing medicine from the legislature should be criminal.
Personally I find it appalling. This is what this province has become, and how it signals to the world what our population is like: Cruel.
I find the nuances of these laws extremely hard to navigate, tbh, but is there an example of someone who would benefit from this without actually having a reasonable likelyhood to die in the following 12 months?
Someone with excruciating pain that can’t be treated is one.
My partner works with people struggling with chronic pain. MAID can be mercy.
Someone living with an incurable, treatment resistant, severe mental illness causing extreme long-term suffering.
Someone living with brain damage that has left their pain centre of their brain fully active, constantly.
Someone suffering from full body paralysis (locked-in) with no prospect of any recovery, unable to even blink their own eyelids requiring a level of care they are almost guaranteed not to receive.
The list goes on.
Must be nice to be in a position, as an able bodied person, to debate nuances and navigation of laws for such matters. To not understand it.
Who would actually benefit from this? If you seriously don’t understand this very very simple question, I’m not sure expending energy on hitting my keyboard is a good investment at this point.
