‘Without consent’?

Dear Editor:

RE: ‘Gentle goodbye,’ April 16.

Next year medical assistance in dying (MAID) will allow euthanizing people who can not give consent. This will be allowed by making mental illness one of the stand alone reasons for euthanasia. 

To me, killing people without their consent is murder. Bill 218 which comes up on April 13, deletes this clause. I with others planned to be in Ottawa trying to promote this life-saving bill.

Chris Woode,
Fergus

*Editor’s note: No one can receive MAID without providing consent and everyone seeking MAID must have decision-making capacity and meet a number of criteria.