Canadians' responses to online consultation on if dementia patients should have access to medical assistance in dying

Question: Imagine that a person is diagnosed with a medical illness that, over time, will affect their mind and take away their decision-making capacity, such as Alzheimer's disease. The person prepares a document that says they consent to receive MAID if specific circumstances arise at a later date, after they no longer are able to consent. In your opinion, should a physician or nurse practitioner be allowed to provide MAID to a person in this situation once the circumstances in their document have arisen and they otherwise meet the MAID criteria, even if they can no longer consent?

Data collected by the Department of Justice in January 2020 and tabled in the House of Commons in April 2020.
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