Quebec COP： MAiD Should be Offered to Babies
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Summary
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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Third, minors from 14 to 7 years of age, nearly 18, the committee recommends and the
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Board of Directors supports as well that these minors could, with their tutors or parental
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parent, could make a request for MAID based on the level of persistent and intolerable
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suffering that they may experience and become unmanageable and senseless.
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The same for babies from 0 to 1 years of age who are born with severe deformations, very
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grave and severe syndromes, medical syndromes, whose life expectancy and level of suffering
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are such that it would make sense to ensure that they do not suffer, given that their
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And this is something that has been used in the Netherlands as an argument, and we could
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Finally, the committee addressed the issue of elders who are feeling tired of being alive,
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sometimes what we in geriatric care call sliding into existential suffering or emptiness,
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who are very fragile, whose physical abilities are so debilitated that the very fact that they're
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So, we feel that this is a topic that's a sensitive one, of course.
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People in general aren't quite sure how to approach this.
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We don't have a clear answer for these cases, but we would like to continue researching this with
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specialists and with Canadians in general to be able to think when for such people who are