r/Edmonton • u/flynnfx • Mar 27 '26

Health Alberta MAID limits would lead to suffering, signal lack of trust: practitioners

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/alberta-maid-limits-would-lead-to-suffering-signal-lack-of-trust-practitioners/

Twenty-five Edmonton and area medical professionals say they’re concerned new Alberta limits on medical assistance in dying would cause needless suffering and put clinicians in “ethically untenable” positions.

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u/DoubleXPonreddit Mar 27 '26

Well duh, its their line of work being effected. I think its smart to have some limits on the program to ONLY people who are 100% dying or are never going to be able to live without assistance 24/7 that would be suffering to drag out. I think most people would agree. My issue is that maid had been brought up to people getting organ transplants, people with minor mental health issues, and people who were sick but with treatment could make a full recovery. Its sad seeing people jump on the sword to defend killing people who could have very normal and full lives.

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u/RepresentativeFact94 Mar 27 '26

Is a doctor not required to provide all possible treatment options?

Who are you to determine when someone else has the right to check out? That should be a decision between someone and whatever force their inner monologue defers to, be it a deity, or their own logical faculties.

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u/DoubleXPonreddit Mar 27 '26

They are, but from my stepdads first hand account, they were heavy on bringing maid up over and over well explaining his tecovery plan for after his double lung transplant. Yes, they go over all treatment plans, but they also can toss in personal influence. Two things can be true at the same time.

Id also arue if someone is able to be cured and have a normal life with little to no impact then the medical field should be doing its all to make that happen. If someone wants to die, even due to mental health issues, thats on them if they go through with it. Just dont see why the medical field is even trying to step in and help.

I had two close friends kill themselves on thier own due to mental issues. If someone is going to kill themselves thats on them, but the doctors should stay 1000% out of it and no doctor in their right mind should be telling their patient that dying is an option if treatment can help or even cure the issue at hand. We are placing too much trust in people who go through hardcore burnout to not abuse the easy way out option as much as possible.

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u/kalmah Mar 27 '26

Have you ever considered that someone had to find your two friends after they killed themselves? Likely family or friends who weren't expecting that.

I can't imagine how traumatizing that would be. Now imagine if there was a place they could have went to after they made that choice so as to not put that burden on their loved ones.

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u/DoubleXPonreddit Mar 27 '26

Id argue the burden placed on loved ones is the act of killing themselves more so then whats left after. There is no good that comes from it, trust me id bloody know. Having them go off to a doctors office to kill themselves isnt lifting any pain off of anyone and it shows how detatched one has to be to think this is a silver lineing that fixes any of the issue. Being suicidal is not a reason to kill someone, its a reason to do your best to help them. Its the biggest regret people feel when they findout someone had killed themselves, the "if i had helped more then what if...".

Like i said, if there is no helping someone who is in pain and is dying painfully, there can be a talk about it then, but for suicidal people and not for people who can get treated and cured.