Special Theme Issue: II. Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID)

i.

Assisted Death in Canada for Persons with Active Psychiatric Disorders

John Maher MA MD FRCPC

Editor-in-Chief

Publication Date: May 4, 2016

ii.

A Response to "Assisted Death in Canada for Persons with Active Psychiatric Disorders"

Mona Gupta MD FRCPC PhD

Publication Date: June 10, 2016

iii.

What Troubles me as a Psychiatrist about the Physician Assisted Suicide Debate in Canada

John Maher MD FRCPC Editor-in-Chief

Publication Date: May 25, 2017

iv.

Why Legalizing Physician Assisted Suicide for People with Mental Illness is Misguided

John Maher MD FRCPC

Publication Date: Feb 19, 2020

v.

MAID for Mental Illness: The Sanitization of Suicide

John Maher MD FRCPC

Publication Date: Dec 10, 2020

i.

Does Euthanasia Have a Dampening Effect on Suicide Rates? Recent Experiences from the Netherlands

Theo A. Boer MA Theol Lic PhD

Publication Date: Dec 28, 2017

ii.

Moral Disengagement – Mechanisms Propelling the Euthanasia/PAS Movement

Fabian Stahle MSc

Publication Date: Jan 30, 2018

iii.

Moral Disengagement - A Cautionary Lesson for Society and the Medical Profession

A commentary in response to: “Moral Disengagement – Mechanisms Propelling the Euthanasia/PAS Movement”

Mark S. Komrad MD

Publication Date: May 23, 2018

iv.

Euthanasia of Dutch Patients with Psychiatric Disorders between 2015 and 2017

Sisco M.P. van Veen MD

Fokeline W. Weerheim BSc

Menno Mostert LLM

Johannes J.M. van Delden MD PhD

Publication Date: Oct 5, 2018

v.

Euthanasia in Mental Illness: A Four Part Series

Trevor A. Hurwitz, MBChB, MRCP (UK), FRCP (C) Psychiatry, FRCP (C) Neurology

Publication Date: Dec 14, 2018

Part I: The Case of EF

Part II: Sadness and Suicidality: Why Mentally Ill Patients Request Euthanasia

Part III: Capacity to Consent

Part IV: Medical Ethics – Autonomy vs Beneficence and Non-malfeasance

vi.

How Did the Netherlands’s Euthanasia Policy Affect Suicide Numbers? Critiquing an Analysis on Trends in the Jurisdiction.

Harmeet S. Nanner MHSc

Publication Date: Nov 25,2019

vii.

Depression and the Desire to Die – Implications for Medical Assistance in Dying

Elyse Platt BAH MA MD

Publication Date: Nov 17, 2021

viii.

Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, and Suicide Rates in Europe

David Albert Jones

Publication Date: Feb 7, 2022

ix.

Did the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 Prevent “at least one suicide every week”?

David Albert Jones DPhil FHEA

Publication Date : Dec 21, 2023

i.

Carter v. Canada (Attorney General): Will the Supreme Court of Canada’s Decision on Physician-assisted Death Apply to Persons Suffering from Severe Mental Illness?

Barbara Walker-Renshaw LLB

Margot Finley LLB

Publication Date: November 20, 2015

ii.

Medical Assistance in Dying and Mental Illness under the New Canadian Law

Jocelyn Downie MLitt SJD FRSC FCAHS

Justine Dembo MD FRCPC

Publication Date: November 18, 2016

iii.

Does Legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying Affect Rates of Non-assisted Suicide?

Matthew P. Lowe

Jocelyn Downie MLitt SJD FRSC FCAHS

Publication Date: May 25, 2017

iv.

Medical Assistance in Dying for Suffering Arising from Mental Health Disorders: Could augmented safeguards enhance its ethical acceptability?

Jeffrey Kirby MA MD

Publication Date: May 25, 2017

v.

Assisted Dying for Mental Disorders: Why Canada’s Legal Approach Raises Serious Concerns

Alec Yarascavitch BSc MD CCFP(EM)

Publication Date: June 30, 2017

i.

Medical Assistance in Dying and “Suicide Tourism” to Canada: Bill C-14 from a Comparative Perspective

Konstantin Tretyakov LLB PhD (Law)

Glenn Cohen BA JD

Publication Date: July 21, 2016

i.

Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders

Louis C Charland, PhD

Trudo Lemmens LicJur, LLM (Bioethics), DCL

Kyoko Wada MD, MA (Bioethics), PhD

Publication Date: May 6, 2016

i.

A Response to Charland and Colleagues: Science Cannot Resolve the Problems of Capacity Assessment

Mona Gupta MD CM FRCPC PhD

Christian Desmarais MD

Publication Date: November 18 2016

ii.

Commentary on Charland et al, "Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders"

Guy Widdershoven PhD

Cecilia M.T. Gijsbers van Wijk MD PhD

Publication Date: November 18 2016

iii.

Medical Assistance in Dying as an Adaptive Preference in Individuals with Mental Illness

Ilang M Guiroy

Dominic Sisti PhD

Publication Date: November 18 2016

iv.

Commentary on “Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders”

Gareth Owen BSc PhD MBBS MCRPsych

Publication Date: November 18 2016

v.

Commentary on "Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders"

Michael Goodstadt PhD C.Psych

Publication Date: November 29 2016

vi.

Commentary on “Decision-Making Capacity to Consent to Medical Assistance in Dying for Persons with Mental Disorders”

Gerben Meynen MD PhD

Publication Date: December 2 2016

vii.

Capacity Assessments as a Safeguard for Psychiatric Patients Requesting Euthanasia

Scott YH Kim MD PhD

Publication Date: December 2 2016

i.

Capacity to Consent to MAID

Mark Lachmann MD MHSc FCFP FRCPC

Publication Date: May 25, 2017

ii.

The Devil is in the Details: Thoughts on Medical Aid in Dying for Persons with Mental Illness

Michael Bay JD

Publication Date: May 25, 2017

iii.

MAID and Mental Illness: Critical Thoughts, Constructive Thoughts

Ruth von Fuchs

Publication Date: May 25, 2017

i.

JEMH/University of Toronto Colloquium Jan 29, 2017

Video Part 1

Video Part 2

ii.

Empowerment Council/CAMH Panel June 5, 2017

Video