Action4Canada - November 30, 2022


Quebec COP： MAiD Should be Offered to Babies

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Tanya Gaw
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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

106.9

Word count

249

Sentence count

7


Summary

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In this episode, we talk about the concept of MAID (Medications Against Persistent and Intolerable Suffering) and how it can be applied to children, adolescents, and elderly people who are tired of being alive.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 Third, minors from 14 to 7 years of age, nearly 18, the committee recommends and the
00:00:13.680 Board of Directors supports as well that these minors could, with their tutors or parental
00:00:23.460 parent, could make a request for MAID based on the level of persistent and intolerable
00:00:30.680 suffering that they may experience and become unmanageable and senseless.
00:00:36.600 The same for babies from 0 to 1 years of age who are born with severe deformations, very
00:00:44.740 grave and severe syndromes, medical syndromes, whose life expectancy and level of suffering
00:00:53.440 are such that it would make sense to ensure that they do not suffer, given that their
00:01:02.500 possibility of surviving is basically nil.
00:01:08.140 And this is something that has been used in the Netherlands as an argument, and we could
00:01:13.320 explore that option.
00:01:14.760 Finally, the committee addressed the issue of elders who are feeling tired of being alive,
00:01:22.240 sometimes what we in geriatric care call sliding into existential suffering or emptiness,
00:01:32.660 who are very fragile, whose physical abilities are so debilitated that the very fact that they're
00:01:45.560 still alive becomes a real strain on them.
00:01:49.300 So, we feel that this is a topic that's a sensitive one, of course.
00:01:55.940 People in general aren't quite sure how to approach this.
00:01:59.840 We don't have a clear answer for these cases, but we would like to continue researching this with
00:02:09.440 specialists and with Canadians in general to be able to think when for such people who are
00:02:17.900 simply extremely frail and tired of being