2024
DOI: 10.1136/jme-2023-109555
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Words matter: ‘enduring intolerable suffering’ and the provider-side peril of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada

Christopher Lyon

Abstract: Enduring intolerable suffering, an essential eligibility criterion in Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada and elsewhere, is a contradiction in terms, in that suffering must be tolerable to be endured. Cases of people who were approved for MAiD but who elected to die naturally, thus tolerating their suffering, bear out the unreliability of this central safeguard. The clinical assessment of intolerable suffering may be strengthened by adopting a definition of intolerable suffering centred on clinically … Show more

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