Bill 38: when the debate resumes in the Fall
Keeping track of the various interventions of opponents who expressed their views on many aspects of the Quebec bill (advanced directives and obligation for palliative care hospices to offer MAiD).
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Keeping track of the various interventions of opponents who expressed their views on many aspects of the Quebec bill (advanced directives and obligation for palliative care hospices to offer MAiD).
LWD denounces this exclusion and launch ''Incapable of dying by advanced directive'', a video series with Dr. Félix Pageau, geriatrician & author.
Through the lens of the Living with Dignity citizen network, the work of the special joint committee (Senate and House of Commons of Canada) on medical assistance in dying (AMAD).
An essential task : to reflect on our individual and collective quest for a peaceful death and a death in peace.
Link to our press release and latest video production.
Our reaction to an open letter signed by Mona Gupta and Jocelyn Downie criticizing the recommendation of the Quebec Select Committee on the Evolution of the Act respecting end-of-life care not to extend access to medical assistance in dying to those whose only medical problem is a mental disorder.
Our reaction with the Physicians’ Alliance against Euthanasia to the report of the Quebec Select Committee on the Evolution of the Act respecting end-of-life care
Unlike our opponents, we do not receive any government funding and the Canada Revenue Agency has just denied us charitable status, while Dying with Dignity Canada has been granted charitable status!
The Treasure of Palliative Care is a video series that answers six essential questions to help you learn more about palliative care before you make end-of-life choices.
Our participation in the Select Committee on the Evolution of the Act Respecting End-of-Life Care on Monday, August 9th.
The Select Committee on the Evolution of the Act respecting end-of-life care announced the second phase of its work. We strongly encourage you to participate!
The Living with Dignity citizen network is pleased with the decision of the members of the Commission de la santé et des services sociaux who chose o...
A first since the beginning of the debates on Medical Aid in Dying in Quebec The public hearings on Bill 38, An Act to amend the Act respecting end-of...
Serious ethical issues on the horizon: how to adopt measures of such magnitude in three weeks?Urgent need to reflect further on human dignity and its...
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Regarding “unbearable pain,” we must kill the pain, not the person with the pain. Failure to offer pain management is now a breach of human rights.
Margaret Somerville
Founder of McGill Center for Medicine, Ethics and Law
End-of-life is a precious moment, for us and for the person leaving us. It is our responsibility to make it a privileged moment, to make ourselves available, to look at our loved ones under a new light, and to see them as they truly are. End-of-life is a period where we simplify and show the essential of what we want to leave to our loved ones.
Patrick Vinay
Physician and board member of Living With Dignity
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