Clark Fruhstorfer

Jan 23, 2024 | cfp.ca | Michaela Kelly |Laura Spiegel |Peter Baylis |Clark Fruhstorfer

Medical assistance in dying (MAID) involves a physician or nurse practitioner administering or prescribing a substance that results in the death of an autonomous individual who is capable of making medical decisions and has requested assistance in dying.1 In Canada MAID was legalized with the passage of Bill C-14 on June 17, 2016, in response to the landmark case Carter v Canada.2,3 In that case, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that criminal laws that prohibited access to MAID violated the...