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Euthanasia in Canada in its legal voluntary form is called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD, also spelled MAID) and it first became legal along with assisted suicide in June 2016 for those whose death was reasonably foreseeable. [1] Before this time, it was illegal as a form of culpable homicide.
In Canada, good Samaritan acts fall under provincial jurisdiction. Each province has its own act, such as Ontario's [6] and British Columbia's [7] respective Good Samaritan Acts, Alberta's, Northwest Territories, Yukon's and Nunavut's Emergency Medical Aid Acts, [8] and Nova Scotia's Volunteer Services Act. [9]
The name given to the act of MAiD varies by country: in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Luxembourg, the act is referred to as euthanasia; another European term is physician-assisted dying (PAD); and medical assistance in dying (MAiD) is the common term in Canada. The terms PAD and MAiD cover assisted suicide as well as euthanasia.
The UK Royal College of Nursing voted in July 2009 to move to a neutral position on medical aid in dying. [53] The California Medical Association dropped its long-standing opposition in 2015 during the debate over whether a medical aid in dying bill should be introduced there, prompted in part by cancer sufferer Brittany Maynard. [54]
Dying with medical assistance is currently legal in 10 states and Washington, D.C., but eight other states are considering similar laws this year, according to the nonprofit Death with Dignity.
Oregon became the first state to implement medical-aid in dying in 1997. If adopted, Illinois would become the first state in the Midwest to allow the practice. Show comments.
Although it will be a long time before Indiana considers medical aid in dying legislation, a majority of Americans support MAID for terminal illness.
Assisted dying (sometimes referred to as assisted death, aid in dying, medical aid in dying or help to die) has been defined as the involvement of healthcare professionals in the provision of lethal drugs intended to end a patient’s life, subject to eligibility criteria and safeguards.