{"id":28825,"date":"2025-06-01T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28825"},"modified":"2025-06-01T09:26:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T09:26:13","slug":"five-things-to-know-about-maid-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=28825","title":{"rendered":"Five Things to Know About MAID in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Canada\u2019s MAID law, which expanded the right to die to people without a terminal illness, raises ethical and medical dilemmas.<\/p>\n

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In 2023, one out of 20 Canadians who died received a physician-assisted death, making Canada the No. 1 provider of medical assistance in dying (MAID) in the world, when measured in total figures. In one province, Quebec, there were more MAID deaths per capita than anywhere else. Canadians, by and large, have been supportive of this trend. A 2022 poll showed that a stunning 86 percent of Canadians supported MAID\u2019s legalization.<\/p>\n

But in some corners, MAID has been the subject of a growing unease. While MAID in Canada was initially restricted to patients with terminal conditions \u2014 people whose natural deaths were \u201creasonably foreseeable\u201d \u2014 the law was controversially amended in 2021 to include people who were suffering but who weren\u2019t actually dying: patients who might have many years or even decades of life ahead of them. This new category includes people with chronic pain and physical disabilities.<\/p>\n

For The New York Times Magazine, I interviewed dozens of clinicians, ethicists, lawyers, advocates and patients about how MAID in Canada works. Here is what I learned:<\/p>\n