Families of Canadians who received MAID talk of rushed assessment, not being told of decision: study

Rushed, incomplete assessments, families kept in the dark, loved ones driven to choose MAID because of unbearable suffering.

A new study adds to growing evidence that Canadian families’ experiences with doctor-assisted death are deeply mixed, with some describing the experience as raw, traumatic and surreal — including sometimes oddly “cheerful” providers — and others describing caring and compassionate deaths for loved ones who’d “had enough.”

Canada’s assisted-death law focuses...