When my mom had cancer I told her she better do everything she could to beat it (she was a super hippie no chemicals person). I remember she was taking some horrible toxic chemo pill that made her miserable (like even her, the person taking the pill, had to handle it with gloves taking it out of the bottle), and I was like mom, stop taking it if it makes you miserable. She broke into tears and was suddenly so grateful to me for giving her permission to stop taking it. I hadn't realized she was putting herself through hell because of what I had asked of her.

Friggen moms man. (╥﹏╥)

I've spoken with the administrator of a province's MAID program who interprets the law. Have you spoken with anyone involved in administering and interpreting the requirements?

Cannot be reversed is modified by under conditions acceptable to them. There's no requirement that a treatment be acceptable to any objective standard, only to the patient and two medical professionals who sign off.

And there's no time limit on when the death is foreseeable to occur for a death to be classed as reasonably foreseeable. Only that it could do so.

It is possible that the administrator misunderstood the law but they're the one running the program.

From your link:

> experience unbearable physical or mental suffering from your illness, disease, disability or state of decline that *cannot* be relieved under conditions that you consider acceptable

That is indeed "very loose," and is not "clear" or "strict." Any mental condition that the patient thinks cannot be acceptably relieved now qualifies (or will after March 17, 2027, when that document says mental illnesses will begin to qualify, because it will somehow become more right on that date than when the law was passed).

Sometime in the next 100 years.

I find the terms and definitions around Canada's euthenasia law uncomfortably vague.