Maid to Order

“Over the past decade, practitioners of euthanasia have become as familiar as orthodontists or plastic surgeons are with the mundane rituals of lanyards and drink tickets and It’s been so longs outside the ballroom of a four-star hotel. The difference is that, 10 years ago, what many of the attendees here do for work would have been considered homicide.” Canada has legalized what it calls MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying). On the most basic level, providing terminally ill patients with a say about their end of life decisions seems like a good and long overdue policy. But the policy is surfacing details and edge cases that lawmakers hadn’t considered. Elaina Plott Calabro in The Atlantic (Gift Article) with a very interesting look at an evolving law: Canada Is Killing Itself. “The country gave its citizens the right to die. Doctors are struggling to keep up with demand.”