NYT on MAiD

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Now Canada’s law resembled the liberal legislation that was already in place in a few small European countries: the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg. Now a Canadian who was chronically sick or disabled could receive MAID from a doctor or a nurse practitioner. Within Canada, this new kind of MAID came to be known as Track 2.
Technically, this second track was also open to people who did not have any physical condition at all, who were applying because of mental illness. But in response to an outcry from some Canadian psychiatrists who argued that the mental-health-care system was wholly unprepared for the change — and who worried about psychiatry’s ability to know, with any certainty, whether any given patient was incurable — MAID for “mental illness as the sole underlying condition” was delayed for a period of two years, and then delayed again and again. (It is now set to begin in 2027.) Track 2 came into effect with a mental-health exclusion and remained relatively rare; in 2023, there were 14,721 Track 1 deaths and 622 deaths from Track 2.
Still, Track 2 quickly became a subject of national contention and even obsession. To supporters, the passage of Bill C-7 was an act of profound political empathy: a recognition that human suffering knows no temporal bounds, and an extension of mercy to people who might otherwise be driven to suicides that were painful or violent. For critics, Track 2 was a moral stain on a nation that believed itself to be a bulwark of decency. It was proof of the slippery slope. Dr. K. Sonu Gaind, chief of psychiatry at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, told The National Post that “we have gone so far over the line with Track 2 that people cannot even see the line that we’ve crossed.”
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Track 2, ask for it!
 
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border_humper said:


Track 2, ask for it!
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Hey come on, if we take this to it's logical conclusion we should just put suicide booths on every corner, I mean, it's a right after all, isn't it?

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