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Just to inform people how this all goes in Canada with MAID.

You need to present all backing medical information to multiple doctors who are allowed to provide MAID assessments. These assessments legally require the doctors to provide alternate care and options to try if they feel it has not been done. This includes your entire health spectrum, from physical to mental to what options have been explored or not.

For my dearly departed, she had tried everything possible for her conditions (Ehlors Danlos, MCAS, and many other conditions) to the point that her EDS specialist, her family doctor, and the two MAID doctors all agrees that she had tried everything possible to deal with her illness. Also they take into account what living with the illness means and what decline could look like.

The last 4 months of her life, my wife could no longer eat solid foods due to her Ehlors Danlos progressing. She could not really leave the home and participate in life.

Would anyone who dislikes MAID tell my wife to just deal with the inability to swallow and the inability to engage with life until a major organ bursts and she dies from that? Or she no longer can get enough nutrition to live? Why tell someone who is suffering so much that they have no right to stop suffering?