Reading Time: 3 minutes As Canadians weigh in on Bill C-14, some will say it has gone far enough. Others will insist it must go further
Author: Harvey Chochinov
Dr. Chochinov is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and Director of the Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit, CancerCare Manitoba.
Dr. Chochinov has been doing palliative care research since 1990 with funding support from local, provincial and national granting agencies. He is a grantee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Cancer Institute of Canada and the National Institute of Health. His work has explored various psychiatric dimensions of palliative medicine, such as depression, desire for death, will to live and dignity at the end of life.
The puzzle of physician-hastened death
Reading Time: 3 minutes Putting the pieces together in a coherent and just fashion
Advanced directives for assisted-dying a dangerous step
Reading Time: 3 minutes The ‘quick and efficient’ decision of the parliamentary committee on assisted dying not in the best interest of the patient
Assisted suicide roll out fraught with peril
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian health facilities not equipped to deal with physician-hastened death
Assisted suicide for those with mental illness a risky proposition
Reading Time: 3 minutes Who but those who have experienced it can appreciate the soul-crushing anguish of mental illness?
Assisted suicide raises troubling questions
Reading Time: 3 minutes For anyone wondering why physician-hastened death makes disabled people feel vulnerable, wonder no more
Why we all need to have end of life conversations
Reading Time: 4 minutes Discussing death allows us to make plans and to make our wishes known to loved ones.
Dying badly a fact of life in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes A lack of proper palliative care could lead to increases in requests for assisted suicides