We're quite ahead on MAID in all of the provinces. Yet, with a caveat: A worry that I think many people have is how it is now being involved in mental health cases. I can imagine that there may be examples of a mental health issue which may be so severe as to be unmanageable. If enough physicians and patient advocates are involved in the process then I am good with the patient and/or family having access to that for a severe mental health issue. Again, the last thing a civilization needs is euthanasia due to how governments wish to run a country. But, I am passionately for MAID for at least two groups, those with unmanageable and incurable life threating illnesses and the elderly who wish to choose their time to go rather than be placed in what is a system that tries to keep them alive for profit.

I support it

I dont think it will ever be "cool" assisted or not.

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That is a good question. From what I have observed in my circle of elderly clients, people appear to be making plans either on their own, with family, and/or with their friends while they are in their sixties through seventies for what to do in their eighties and nineties, in some rarer cases, for when they reach their early hundreds. They wish to know that if they may lose their cognitive faculties or be in a state of health where suffering is all that they are experiencing, that their plans are there and ready for them. I think the label elderly is more of an umbrella term and that everyone has their own idea of where that is for them.

This post was edited by UAPtictac on May 5 2026 10:50pm

Did all the prerequisites for nursing in Vancouver, but life thingies happened and lost my place in the college I had been accepted to list. While in Victoria, BC, trained to work with clients with ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease and an elderly clientele. Have been doing that for over 25 years now, but have winnowed down to just a small handful of clients on an on-call basis. I am drained and need to just be silly for this time in my little life.