Thu Mar 30, 2023 – 12:34 pm EDT
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) — A CBC First Person article published by Alexandria Nassopoulos tells her powerful personal story of living with fibromyalgia and possibly qualifying for euthanasia (Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAiD) but not for receiving enough support to live her life.
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Nassopoulos begins her article, “I receive enough money to avoid homelessness but not enough to live,” with the crux of the issue centering on MAiD, writing:
It seemed like a cruel joke when Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) pops up in my social media news feed.
As I scrolled through the articles and posts from other chronically ill Canadians, it looked like I’d qualify even without terminal cancer or a degenerative neurological disease. Out of morbid curiosity, I checked out the criteria on the Health Canada website.
It says that to be eligible I must have a ‘grievous and irremediable medical condition,’ which includes being in an ‘advanced state of decline that cannot be reversed’ and causes ‘unbearable suffering.
My condition, fibromyalgia, can be summarized by chronic pain, fatigue and migraines. I was born
The remainder of this article is available in its entirety at LifeSite News
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