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Elderly woman with shoulder length blonde hair looking into the camera. She's wearing a dark blue floral tunic with a double-layered silver necklace

How I Plan to Die

Preparing for MAID is exhausting and expensive. I’m glad I lived long enough to do it.
Federal ministers attend a press conference in Ottawa last year when the government was asking a judge to extend the deadline for revising its law on medical aid in dying (CP/Sean Kilpatrick)

Taking MAiD way too far

Gabrielle Peters: The effort to widen eligibility for MAiD to include disabled people who are not actually dying is dangerous, unsettling and deeply flawed
Rear view of young male caretaker with disabled woman and dog in forest

Dying for the right to live

Gabrielle Peters: Many disabled Canadians have been forced into poverty by insufficient income support—especially true during the pandemic. Some are considering MAID because they "simply cannot afford to keep on living."