BILL C-14 eligibility criteria |
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18 + years of age |
Eligible for publicly funded health services |
Has decision-making capacity at the time of request and to provide final consent |
Informed consent to receive MAID given after patient informed of means available to relieve suffering |
Voluntary request for MAID |
Person has “grievous and irremediable medical condition”, meaning: |
serious and incurable illness, disease or disability and has an advanced state of irreversible decline in capability; |
has enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to them and cannot be relieved under conditions that they consider acceptable |
Their natural death has become reasonably foreseeable |
Bill C-14 safeguards |
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Patient must make a written request that must be witnessed and signed by two independent witnesses |
Witness may not be a family member or a health care worker |
Two independent practitioners must confirm all eligibility criteria |
Person must be informed that they can withdraw request at any time, by any means |
Mandatory 10-day reflection period after written request is signed, unless death or loss of capacity imminent |
Immediately before MAID is provided, person must be given opportunity to withdraw consent |
Must confirm consent at the time of provision to receive MAID |