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The doctor who took on death

In an agonizing personal and professional decision, Dr. Sandy Buchman opted to help patients with their final wish. He hasn’t looked back.
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Should doctors be paid a premium for assisting deaths?

Physicians can make more doing paperwork than performing this legal, but emotionally demanding, service. For many, it’s just not worth it.
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Should mentally ill Canadians have access to assisted dying?

It may make some people understandably uncomfortable, but extending the right to assisted dying to the mentally ill is a compassionate solution
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Q&A: Stefanie Green on helping doctors navigate assisted dying

Stefanie Green founded the Canadian Association of MAID Assessors and Providers, which supports doctors as they navigate Canada’s new assisted dying law.
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Why Canada’s assisted dying law is confusing doctors—and patients

Canada’s Justice Minister says the law provides ’maximum flexibility’ to health-care professionals who assess patients. But doctors are unclear on who qualifies for assisted dying.
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What the Dutch experience with assisted dying can teach Canada

’It’s not bad to take away the fear of death and dying,’ says Dr. Gerrit Kimsma, a Dutch physician and professor
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’Road to Mercy’ paints portraits of assisted dying

Our Q&A with Nadine Pequeneza, whose documentary captures an emotional debate as Canada debated its assisted dying laws
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What we’re not talking about in the assisted-dying debate

Why suicide researchers have a potentially important perspective on the debate over assisted dying
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Highlights of the Senate’s debate on assisted dying

’With Bill C-14, we are facing the most difficult and important area of the law that many of us will ever be forced to contend with as parliamentarians.’
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Maclean’s on the Hill: ’O Canada’ may soon be gender neutral

The Maclean’s Ottawa bureau’s weekly audio debrief on all things #cdnpoli