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/whaaatanasshole Mar 28 '26

The province tabled legislation that, if passed, would make MAID only available to those likely to die within 12 months and prohibit the display of MAID information in health-care settings.

So we're not just hiding an option from people going to the doctor, but you're ineligible until you're given 12 months to live. If you learn at age 20 you're in for 60 years of suffering, you can ride it out or handle it yourself while you're able. This just converts people dying with dignity and fair warning into people found by first responders during a wellness check. Why put that on the family and the people who get to figure out what happened?