No Loitering: A Response to Disha et al. on Medical Assistance in Dying’s 90-day Assessment Period
Disha et al., in their 2023 paper in this journal, interchangeably frame the Canadian Criminal Code’s 90-day assessment period safeguard for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) for people without a foreseeable natural death (Track 2) as a “waiting”, “reflection”, and “assessment” period. However, the...
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| description | Disha et al., in their 2023 paper in this journal, interchangeably frame the Canadian Criminal Code’s 90-day assessment period safeguard for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) for people without a foreseeable natural death (Track 2) as a “waiting”, “reflection”, and “assessment” period. However, the law and formal guidance explicitly describe its purpose as an assessment period, only incidentally a reflection period, but not a waiting period. Accordingly, there is an urgent ethical, practical, and legal need to ensure MAID practitioners, their colleagues, and overseers rigorously understand and apply the law to protect patients’ lives from transgressions and stop transgressors.
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| spelling | doaj-art-8ffa531759364bbaaa2b13b74ef6f97d2025-08-20T02:28:18ZengProgrammes de bioéthique, École de santé publique de l'Université de MontréalCanadian Journal of Bioethics2561-46652025-04-0181-210.7202/1117878arNo Loitering: A Response to Disha et al. on Medical Assistance in Dying’s 90-day Assessment PeriodChristopher Lyon0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2319-2933University of York, York, United KingdomDisha et al., in their 2023 paper in this journal, interchangeably frame the Canadian Criminal Code’s 90-day assessment period safeguard for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) for people without a foreseeable natural death (Track 2) as a “waiting”, “reflection”, and “assessment” period. However, the law and formal guidance explicitly describe its purpose as an assessment period, only incidentally a reflection period, but not a waiting period. Accordingly, there is an urgent ethical, practical, and legal need to ensure MAID practitioners, their colleagues, and overseers rigorously understand and apply the law to protect patients’ lives from transgressions and stop transgressors. https://cjb-rcb.ca/index.php/cjb-rcb/article/view/817Medical Assistance in DyingHealth LawAssisted SuicideEuthanasiacriminal law |
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| title | No Loitering: A Response to Disha et al. on Medical Assistance in Dying’s 90-day Assessment Period |
| title_full | No Loitering: A Response to Disha et al. on Medical Assistance in Dying’s 90-day Assessment Period |
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| title_short | No Loitering: A Response to Disha et al. on Medical Assistance in Dying’s 90-day Assessment Period |
| title_sort | no loitering a response to disha et al on medical assistance in dying s 90 day assessment period |
| topic | Medical Assistance in Dying Health Law Assisted Suicide Euthanasia criminal law |
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