For baby boomers, a fix to medical-assistance-in-dying law urgently needed

We, the baby boomers, are reaching the golden years of our life. We are also reaching an age when our bodies are starting to fail.

Justice Minister David Lametti, pictured in Dec. 2019 in a scrum, has been soliciting comments from the public on changes to legislation on medical assistance in dying. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Pierre Leblanc

January 27, 2020

The law allowing for medical assistance in dying needs to be changed as soon as possible. Since 2016, MAID has now been available to Canadians, with over 7,000 Canadians having taken advantage of this medical procedure to end their lives, on their own terms and with d...

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