Physicians have expressed guilt over the program’s expansion and their participation in it, the Daily Mail reported. In 2021, Canada allowed more people to be “eligible: for MAiD, including those with incurable but not necessarily terminal illnesses, leading to 30 percent more people requesting physician-assisted suicide." But documents obtained by the Mail revealed that many doctors are not happy with the program’s continual escalation toward more death. An Ontario doctor shared how one of his patients had a severe lung disease but really requested euthanasia “mostly because he is homeless, in debt and cannot tolerate the idea of [long-term care] of any kind.”
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Physicians have expressed guilt over the program’s expansion and their participation in it, the Daily Mail reported. In 2021, Canada allowed more people to be “eligible: for MAiD, including those with incurable but not necessarily terminal illnesses, leading to 30 percent more people requesting physician-assisted suicide." But documents obtained by the Mail revealed that many doctors are not happy with the program’s continual escalation toward more death. An Ontario doctor shared how one of his patients had a severe lung disease but really requested euthanasia “mostly because he is homeless, in debt and cannot tolerate the idea of [long-term care] of any kind.” https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-doctors-express-guilt-over-euthanizing-patients-for-just-being-poor-or-fat
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Canadian doctors express ‘guilt’ over euthanizing patients for just being poor or fat
One patient requested MAiD “mostly because he is homeless, in debt and cannot tolerate the idea of [long-term care] of any kind.”
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