Cory Taylor’s 2016 book Dying: A Memoir spoke of her cancer diagnosis and impending death. Now it’s on stage with the Melbourne Theatre Company.
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MAiD needs safeguards for the vulnerable: Ontario coroner’s reports show more marginalized people receiving Track 2 MAiD, which provides assisted death for those with disability but who are not dying.
Choosing to hasten one’s death is an intensely personal, carefully considered decision. But it is rarely made in isolation.
Psychiatrist Karandeep Sonu Gaind speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast on why he’s a vocal opponent of Canada’s expansion of its medically assisted dying laws to people with solely mental illness.
People with disabilities contend with daily challenges and ableism. Here are some dos and don'ts to help you be more mindful of those living with a disability.
Two years after the law came into force, just 40% of the 1,441 New Zealanders who applied for an assisted death were able to have one. Next year’s review has important questions to answer.
Canada’s planned expansion of MAID to mental illness is based on ignorance — if not outright disregard — of fundamental suicide prevention principles.
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Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
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Professor of Supportive and Palliative Care, Lancaster University
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Senior Research Fellow, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia
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Lecturer, University of Otago
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Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, Emory University
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Associate Adjunct Professor of Disability Ethics, John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta
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Lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington