Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you. That goes to the following. While I'm not an expert in Dutch or Belgium law, I speak to the issue of the importance of having a reciprocating relationship between a physician and a patient who might have a question about MAID. The analysis pursuant to the assessment

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I'm now 41 years post-injury. I can speak to the first two years. I was highly vulnerable. I was only 18 years old, starting university, and then I wasn't there anymore. I'd lost my place and my identity. I returned to university later. I have friends, I have a career. I have t

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I am not speaking to putting foreseeable death back into the law. That is removed. That is the current law. What I am suggesting is that if it can be remediated, if the state has caused the suffering, then the state must remove the suffering.

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  I'm glad you raised the point of Mr. Fletcher, a gentleman whom I call a friend, a person who embraced life through living. At the outset of my comments I said that, at the very end of life, as Carter spoke to questions about end of life, I believe that debate is not here tonight

Medical Assistance in Dying committee  Thank you very much. Inflammatory stories about a painful end of life have often been shared with this committee to promote ideology rather than to encourage proper analysis and cogent debate. I will not do that tonight. I am not speaking about the far end of life. I am talking