Canadian MAID Is Voluntary, Safe, Carefully Regulated, and Valued

The May 2025 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics contains a symposium on MAID in Canada. Our contribution is listed below with the full TOC.   

A Patient-Directed Approach: How the U.S. Model of Medical Aid in Dying Balances Compassion with Safeguards -- Kevin Díaz & Bernadette Nunley

Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying: Provider Concentration, Policy Capture, and Need for Reform -- Christopher Lyon, Trudo Lemmens & Scott Y. H. Kim

Canadian MAiD and the Death of Dignity -- Daryl Pullman

Acceding to MAiD Proponent’s Framing Excludes Abolition as Potential Solution -- Gabrielle Peters

Sorry, Not Sorry: Canadian MAID Is Voluntary, Safe, Carefully Regulated, and Valued -- James Downar, Stefanie Green, David Hoffman & Thaddeus Mason Pope

A Deceptive View of Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying -- Margaret P. Battin

International MAiD Policy Oversight: The Global Observatory on MAiD -- David Rodriguez-Arias, Janet Delgado, Luis Espericueta, Nerea M. Molina, María Isabel Tamayo-Velázquez, Rosana Triviño Caballero, Mar Vallès-Poch & Sean Riley

A (White) Senator, Doctor and Lawyer Walk into a Bar…and Appropriate the Assisted Dying Narrative-- K. Sonu Gaind

Rethinking MAID in Canada: The Role of Palliative Care -- Bruce P. Blackshaw  

Correcting Speculation with Facts: A First-Hand Account of the Origins of the Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers and Its Importance to Canadian Healthcare -- Tim Holland, Andrea Frolic, Cécile Bensimon & Sandy Buchman

Medicine and MAiD -- Brendan Leier & Cheryl Mack

“MAiD Specialists?” Specialization as a Feature of Bureaucracy, Not Medicine, in Canada -- Benjamin Frush, Ashley Moyse & John Brewer Eberly

Medical Assistance in Dying in a Continuously Changing Society: Lessons from The Netherlands -- I. M. Hein, S. M. P. van Veen & G. A. M. Widdershoven

Increase in MAID Requests for Psychiatric Disorders for Young Adults in The Netherlands -- Julian Kiverstein, Roy Dings & Damiaan Denys

Critically Evaluating MAID in Canada Through an Inequities Lens -- Scott D. Neufeld & Tia Greto