{"id":7464,"date":"2017-06-18T19:35:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T02:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7464"},"modified":"2018-03-06T17:34:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T01:34:43","slug":"one-year-after-canadas-medically-assisted-dying-law-patients-face-uneven-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7464","title":{"rendered":"One year after Canada&#8217;s medically assisted dying law, patients face uneven access"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>&#8216;This dying, elderly man was stuck in the back of an ambulance so he could access his dying wishes&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>CBC News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Nicole Ireland<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Martha&#8221; was stunned when her 78-year-old\u00a0father told her he wanted a medically assisted death, after battling lung cancer for almost two years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something you&#8217;ve never contemplated before in your family,&#8221; she said. &#8220;How do you prepare for this? This date that somebody&#8217;s going to pass away. It&#8217;s really hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Martha\u00a0has asked CBC News to use only her middle name, because children in her family don&#8217;t know that their grandfather&#8217;s death was medically assisted. \u00a0A\u00a0year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/health-canada\/services\/medical-assistance-dying.html\"> Canada&#8217;s Medical Assistance in Dying <\/a>law passed on June 17, 2016,\u00a0the issue remains\u00a0highly controversial. . .\u00a0 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/medically-assisted-dying-access-one-year-later-1.4165936\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;This dying, elderly man was stuck in the back of an ambulance so he could access his dying wishes&#8217; CBC News Nicole Ireland &#8220;Martha&#8221; was stunned when her 78-year-old\u00a0father told her he wanted a medically assisted death, after battling lung cancer for almost two years. &#8220;It&#8217;s something you&#8217;ve never contemplated before in your family,&#8221; she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One year after Canada&#8217;s medically assisted dying law, patients face uneven access&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,32,643,162,9,295],"tags":[561,2587,2223,1560,3338,184,3337,384,3295,2517],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-christianity-catholicism","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-religious-freedom","tag-british-columbia","tag-canadian-association-of-maid-assessors-and-providers-camap","tag-catholic-health-alliance-of-canada","tag-dying-with-dignity-canada","tag-horst-saffarek","tag-hospitals","tag-jonathan-reggler","tag-ontario","tag-st-josephs-general-hospital-comox-bc","tag-stefanie-green"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>One year after Canada&#039;s medically assisted dying law, patients face uneven access - 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