Articles
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Euthanasia in Canada (articles)
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Pageau, Félix. Older People
as a Burden? – A Cautionary Tale from Quebec on Medical Assistance in Dying.
Nursing Ethics, January 13, 2025. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09697330241312022
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Lyon C, Lemmens T and Kim SYH.
Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying: Provider Concentration, Policy Capture,
and Need for Reform. The American Journal of Bioethics, January 10, 2025. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2024.2441695
o 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/
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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/
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Raikin, Alexander. A pattern
of noncompliance. The New Atlantis, November 11, 2024. https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/compliance-problems-maid-canada-leaked-documents
o 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
o 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
o 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
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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/
o 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/
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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
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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
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Brooks, David. The Outer
Limits of Liberalism. The Atlantic, June 2023. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/06/canada-legalized-medical-assisted-suicide-euthanasia-death-maid/673790/
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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/
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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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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, chronic illness and euthanasia
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
- Roff C and Cook-Cottone, C. Assisted death in eating
disorders: a systematic review of cases and clinical rationales. Frontiers
in Psychiatry, July 31, 2024.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1431771/full
o 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/
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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
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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
· Children and euthanasia
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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
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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/
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Ferrier, Catherine. Advance
Request for Euthanasia? Impact Ethics, June 10, 2016. https://impactethics.ca/2016/06/10/advance-request-for-euthanasia/
· Conscience and euthanasia
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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/
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Other reflections on
euthanasia
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Stanners A et al. The
British Geriatrics Society’s position on assisted dying. Age and Ageing January
8, 2025. https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/54/1/afae290/7945354?searchresult=1
o Tambakis J, Kaldjian L and Goligher E. The religious character of secular arguments supporting euthanasia and what it implies for conscientious practice in medicine. Heoretical Medicine and Bioethics, November 30, 2022. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11017-022-09602-2
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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/