How poverty, not pain, is driving Canadians with disabilities to consider medically-assisted death
The numbers don’t show how many people who opted for a medically assisted death were living in poverty, but Dr. Dosani says it’s not acceptable for anyone to choose to die for lack of financial and social support.
For Luca “LazyLegz” Patuelli, the treatment of people with disabilities during the pandemic, when compared to the able-bodied, was a wake-up call — especially when CERB cheques were being issued en masse. “I think that as a society, we should encourage individuals of all abilities of the possibility to discover their true potential. And the biggest thing that we can do is lift people up,” he says.
Today, the Medicine Hat, Alta., man is in a wheelchair and has severe chronic pain. But that’s not why he’s planning to apply for MAiD. “How do you target a segment of society with basically death as their only option to get out of their situation? And you don’t do anything by helping them out of that situation. I mean, how do you explain that?”‘Deny, delay, die’ — Assisted dying discussion renews warnings about gaps in veteran care
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