Refusing care as a legal pathway to medical assistance in dying

Can a competent individual refuse care in order to make their natural death reasonably foreseeable in order to qualify for medical assistance in dying (MAiD)? Consider a competent patient with left-side paralysis following a right brain stroke who is not expected to die for many years; normally his...

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Main Authors: Jocelyn Downie, Matthew J Bowes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Programmes de bioéthique, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal 2019-06-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Bioethics
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Online Access:https://cjb-rcb.ca/index.php/cjb-rcb/article/view/169