Chris Sinding is a professor at McMaster University in the School of Social Work and the Department of Health, Aging and Society. Her research focuses on how responsibility, choice and expertise are negotiated in health care interactions.
Canadians deserve access to robust and timely responses to their MAiD inquiries. Most important among these are conversations and supports intended to relieve suffering, that may ease or address the person’s desire to die.
For my Mom, palliative care and MAiD unfolded gracefully together. My family’s experience is one among many that might prompt Canada’s palliative care organizations to reconsider their relationship to MAiD