Lyon, Christopher orcid.org/0000-0003-2319-2933 (2025) No Loitering:A Response to Disha et al. on Medical Assistance in Dying’s 90-day Assessment Period. Canadian Journal of Bioethics. pp. 143-148. ISSN 2561-4665
Abstract
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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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Christopher Lyon, 2025 |
Keywords: | assisted suicide,Criminal Code,euthanasia,law,MAiD,medical assistance in dying,medical ethics |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Environment and Geography (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 27 May 2025 08:50 |
Last Modified: | 27 May 2025 08:50 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.7202/1117878ar |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | No |
Identification Number: | 10.7202/1117878ar |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:227120 |