Articles

• Euthanasia is not medicine
  • Lemmens T, Shariff M and Herx L. How Bill C-7 will sacrifice the medical profession’s Standard of Care. Policy Options, February 11, 2021.
    https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/february-2021/how-bill-c7-will-sacrifice-the-medical-professions-standard-of-care/

 

• Euthanasia in Canada
  • Coelho, Ramona. Heart-wrenching lessons from Canada’s Assisted Dying regime. The Herald, November 12, 2024. https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/24716947.heart-wrenching-lessons-canadas-assisted-dying-regime/
  • Turcotte PL et Lemmens T. La normalisation troublante de la mort médicalement administrée au Québec et au Canada : état des lieux. Aporia, 12 novembre 2024.
    https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/aporia/2024-v16-n2-aporia09675/1114546ar/
  • Raikin, Alexander. A pattern of noncompliance. The New Atlantis, November 11, 2024.
    https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/compliance-problems-maid-canada-leaked-documents
  • Gaind, Kirandeep Sonu. MAiD and marginalized people: Coroner’s reports shed light on assisted death in Ontario. The Conversation, October 24, 2024. https://theconversation.com/maid-and-marginalized-people-coroners-reports-shed-light-on-assisted-death-in-ontario-241661
  • Cheng, Maria. Committee reviewing euthanasia in Canada finds some deaths driven by homelessness fears, isolation. The Associated Press, October 18, 2024. https://apnews.com/article/canada-euthanasia-deaths-doctors-nonterminal-nonfatal-cases-cd7ff24c57c15a404347df289788ef6d
  • Cheng M and Wang A. Private forums show Canadian doctors struggle with euthanizing vulnerable patients. The Associated Press, October 16, 2024. https://apnews.com/article/euthanasia-ethics-canada-doctors-nonterminal-nonfatal-cases-dfe59b1786592e31d9eb3b826c5175d1
  • Raikin, Alexander. We were promised MAiD would be rare. Instead, Canadian euthanasia deaths are soaring. The Hub, August 21, 2024. https://thehub.ca/2024/08/21/alexander-raikin-we-were-promised-maid-would-be-rare-instead-canadian-euthanasia-deaths-are-soaring/
  • Raikin, Alexander. From Exceptional to Routine: The Rise of Euthanasia in Canada. Cardus Report, August 7, 2024.
    https://www.cardus.ca/research/health/reports/from-exceptional-to-routine/
  • Atkins, Chloë GK. A Disabled Bioethicist’s Critique of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). American Journal of Bioethics, October 25, 2023.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2023.2256278
  • Coelho R et al. The realities of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada. Palliative & Supportive Care, July 18, 2023. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/palliative-and-supportive-care/article/realities-of-medical-assistance-in-dying-in-canada/3105E6A45E04DFA8602D54DF91A2F568
  • Raikin, Alexander. When suicide attempts turn into assisted suicides. Macdonald-Laurier Institute, April 20, 2023.
    https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/when-suicide-attempts-turn-into-assisted-suicides-alexander-raikin-for-inside-policy/
  • Raikin, Alexander. No Other Options: Newly revealed documents depict a Canadian euthanasia regime that efficiently ushers the vulnerable to a “beautiful” death. The New Atlantis, December 16, 2022.
    https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/no-other-options

 

• Palliative care and euthanasia
  • Chochinov H and Fins J. Is Medical Assistance in Dying Part of Palliative Care? JAMA October 8, 2024.
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39259560/
  • Herx L and Kaya E. Assisted dying must not be confused for palliative care. Globe & Mail, May 9, 2022.
    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-assisted-dying-must-not-be-confused-for-palliative-care/
  • Gallagher, Romayne. Lack of palliative care is a failure in too many MAiD requests. Policy Options, October 19, 2020. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/october-2020/lack-of-palliative-care-is-a-failure-in-too-many-maid-requests/
  • Gallagher R, Passmore MJ, Baldwin C. Hastened death due to disease burden and distress that has not received timely, quality palliative care is a medical error. Medical Hypotheses, September 2020.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987720302942?via%3Dihub

 

• Disability and euthanasia
  • Peters, Gabrielle. Reality, not religion, is the reason people need MAiD-free health care. Policy Options, April 26, 2024. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/april-2024/maid-free-health-care/
  • Tauh H et al. Perspectives on medical assistance in dying amongst persons with traumatic spinal cord injury: a qualitative study. Spinal Cord, May 2022. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35396457/
  • Tchajkova N, Ethans K, Smith SD. Inside the lived perspective of life after spinal cord injury: a qualitative study of the desire to live and not live, including with assisted dying. Spinal Cord, May 2021.
    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33790424/

 

• Mental illness and euthanasia
  • Gaind KS et al. More Canadian Psychiatrists Respond: No MAiD For Mental Illness. Impact Ethics, November 28, 2023.
    https://impactethics.ca/2023/11/28/more-canadian-psychiatrists-respond-no-maid-for-mental-illness/
  • Coelho R, Maher J and Lemmens T. Missing the mark on a profound social change with MAiD for mental illness. Policy Options, March 24, 2022. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/missing-the-mark-on-a-profound-social-change-with-maid-for-mental-illness/

 

• Vulnerability and euthanasia
  • Gallagher R et al (over 170 co-authors). Response to Medical Assistance in Dying, Palliative Care, Safety, and Structural Vulnerability. Journal of Palliative Medicine, December 2023.
    https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jpm.2023.0581
  • Nafilyan V et al. Risk of suicide after diagnosis of severe physical health conditions: a retrospective cohort study of 47 million people. The Lancet Regional Health, February 2023.
    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(22)00258-7/fulltext

 

• Children and euthanasia
  • Coelho, Ramona. Canada’s assisted dying regime should not be expanded to include children. Al Jazeera, February 16, 2024. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/16/canadas-assisted-dying-regime-should-not-be-expanded-to-include-children

 

• Decision-making incapacity and euthanasia
  • Lemmens, Trudo. Turning Human Rights Upside Down with Advance Requests for MAID. Impact Ethics, June 8, 2022.
    https://impactethics.ca/2022/06/08/turning-human-rights-upside-down-with-advance-requests-for-maid/
  • Ferrier, Catherine. Advance Request for Euthanasia? Impact Ethics, June 10, 2016.
    https://impactethics.ca/2016/06/10/advance-request-for-euthanasia/

 

• Conscience and euthanasia
  • Symons, Xavier. Conscientious Objection and Euthanasia.  Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA), May 11, 2023. https://blog.apaonline.org/2023/05/11/conscientious-objection-and-euthanasia-draft/