Help Am I an idiot?

[CHOSEVIOLENCE]

So I was looking up the application MAID where I live and it concludes with this: "Although a mental disorder, other than a neurocognitive disorder, can be, in certain cases, a serious illness that can cause significant suffering, it is not an illness for which a person can formulate a request for medical assistance in dying."

But it also says this is one of the requirements:

• Experience constant and unbearable physical or psychological suffering that cannot be relieved in a manner the person deems tolerable.

Not to mention we were recently under scrutiny for allowing a person with depression to apply for MAID. So I don't understand what they mean by this.

 

[Forever Sleep]

Sounds to me like they haven't properly made up their minds about it either. It's clearly something they are going to have to get better at guaging if assisted suicide does become more prevalent.

I wonder how they would do it. Will they ever agree amongst themselves that certain people seem to be treatmet resistant? That certain mental illnesses are maybe untreatable? Sometimes it feels like an ego thing on part of the doctors. Just because something doesn't physically kill, why should people have to put up with prologed suffering? Just how many treatments will they need to try before everyone agrees that it's useless?

The whole reference to a physical or psychological pain the individual finds intolerable is very interesting though. It seems to allude that we get to set the standards. I doubt that's true though. I suspect it's two or three specialists that have to agree.

I've also wondered- can you deny treatment for either physical or mental illness but still apply for assisted suicide? I'm guessing not. Because it doesn't meet their standards to prove that a condition is uncurable- no matter how much agony the person insists they are in.

 

[astr4]

maid for mental illness is not available in canada. was supposed to have a decision by now but lol. lol! love to see us suffer.

second requirement is presumably for non-mental illness related mental suffering.

 

[CHOSEVIOLENCE]

maid for mental illness is not available in canada. was supposed to have a decision by now but lol. lol! love to see us suffer.

second requirement is presumably for non-mental illness related mental suffering.

Thank you. I'm still confused because a depressed person in Quebec has apparently successfully applied for MAID, but may they had underlying problems or something.

 

[astr4]

Thank you. I'm still confused because a depressed person in Quebec has apparently successfully applied for MAID, but may they had underlying problems or something.

tbh quebec is always messy when it comes to legislation bc they're the only civil law province (all other provinces common law) so idk off the top of my head my assumption is that it has to do with some legal loophole that isn't accessible to non québécois