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we’re killing off the sad and the poor with maid: full comment with anthony furey

people who are poor, lonely or battling mental illnesses, who’s lives might get better with help, are being offered a lethal injection instead

by postmedia news

may 24 2022
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in march 2023, canada will become one of the few nations in the world allowing medical aid in dying, or maid, for people whose sole underlying condition is depression, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, schizophrenia, ptsd or any other mental affliction. katarzyna bialasiewicz/getty
dr. sonu gaind is a supporter of “medical assistance in dying” (maid) for those suffering profoundly with terminal illnesses. he’s even the physician chair of the maid team at toronto’s humber river hospital, where he’s chief of psychiatry. but he’s grown alarmed since canada stopped requiring a reasonably foreseeable death for euthanasia, as he tells anthony in this week’s episode. people who are poor, lonely or battling mental illnesses, whose lives might get better with help, are being offered a lethal injection instead. and children could be next. what once threatened to be euthanasia’s slippery slope, says gaind, has turned out to be a cliff. (recorded may 12, 2022)

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