09-18-2025, 07:38 AM
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Los Bastardo owned my ass at least once
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Originally Posted by whitev70r
They are working on it. Recently, famous author Robert Munsch got advanced assessment for MAID. He was diagnosed with dementia and wanted to get approved before. However, it is not 'legal' yet to get advanced directive for MAID. Because right now, you can change your mind up to the last moment. So if a dementia person signed advanced directive and says he wants to change his mind on the day of, then what? Presently, it is grounded on a person's clear cognitive ability to be able to give consent to MAID at every point of the process.
An acquaintance of mine, Geriatric doc, she thinks it's only a matter of time for them to hammer out the policies and wording.
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I didn't know that. I grew up on Robert Munsch stories and this is really sad news.
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