{"id":8643,"date":"2018-03-23T19:10:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T02:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8643"},"modified":"2018-07-13T19:13:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T02:13:01","slug":"has-stopping-eating-and-drinking-become-a-path-to-assisted-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8643","title":{"rendered":"Has stopping eating and drinking become a path to assisted dying?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Policy Options<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Jocelyn Downie<\/p>\n<p>Can patients, by stopping eating and drinking, make themselves meet the criteria for a &#8220;grievous and irremediable medical condition,&#8221; the requirement to access MAiD?<\/p>\n<p>Ms. S. was a 56-year-old woman with advanced multiple sclerosis. In June 2016, when her suffering became intolerable and her state of decline was advanced as a result of her incurable medical condition, she asked Dr. Ellen Wiebe for medical assistance in dying (MAiD). Ms. S. had earlier declined potentially effective treatment. Dr. Wiebe concluded that Ms. S. met most of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parl.ca\/DocumentViewer\/en\/42-1\/bill\/C-14\/royal-assent\"> eligibility criteria for MAiD in Canada<\/a>: incurable condition, advanced state of decline in capability, and enduring and intolerable suffering not remediable by any means acceptable to her. However, as she did not believe that Ms. S. would die &#8220;in the foreseeable future,&#8221; she deemed her not to meet the final eligibility criterion for MAiD: &#8220;natural death has become reasonably foreseeable.&#8221; Ms. S. asked again for MAiD in December 2016 and January 2017 and each time she was deemed ineligible on the same grounds. . .<strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/magazines\/march-2018\/has-stopping-eating-and-drinking-become-a-path-to-assisted-dying\/\">Full Text<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy Options Jocelyn Downie Can patients, by stopping eating and drinking, make themselves meet the criteria for a &#8220;grievous and irremediable medical condition,&#8221; the requirement to access MAiD? Ms. S. was a 56-year-old woman with advanced multiple sclerosis. In June 2016, when her suffering became intolerable and her state of decline was advanced as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8643\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Has stopping eating and drinking become a path to assisted dying?&#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":[77,32,162,8,9],"tags":[2389,1197],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-8643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-legal-commentary","category-news","tag-ellen-wiebe","tag-jocelyn-downie"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Has stopping eating and drinking become a path to assisted dying? - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=8643\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Has stopping eating and drinking become a path to assisted dying? - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Policy Options Jocelyn Downie Can patients, by stopping eating and drinking, make themselves meet the criteria for a &#8220;grievous and irremediable medical condition,&#8221; the requirement to access MAiD? 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