{"id":1814,"date":"2016-09-23T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T14:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvndy.ca\/?p=1814\/"},"modified":"2018-11-01T21:54:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T21:54:18","slug":"webcast-archive-quebecs-commission-on-end-of-life-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/2016\/09\/webcast-archive-quebecs-commission-on-end-of-life-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Webcast archive: Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Commission on End of Life Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1180\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tm4Dy6gQjQQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode of <em>Euthanasia &amp; Disability<\/em>, Amy Hasbrouck and Christian Debray discuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two members of Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Commission on End of Life Care are accused of opposing euthanasia<\/li>\n<li>The first euthanasia of a minor in Belgium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note that this text is only a script and that our webcast contains additional commentary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TWO MEMBERS OF QU\u00c9BEC\u2019S COMMISSION ON END OF LIFE CARE ARE ACCUSED OF BEING ANTI-EUTHANASIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On Monday, the newspaper\u00a0<em>Le Devoir\u00a0<\/em>printed an article raising \u201cethical questions\u201d about the inclusion of two members on the Commission on end-of-life care who oppose euthanasia.<\/li>\n<li><em>Le Devoir\u00a0<\/em>described the \u201cfierce opposition\u201d of attorney Pierre Deschamps and Mireille Lavoie, and questioned whether the commission could be \u201cneutral\u201d if two of its members opposed euthanasia.<\/li>\n<li><em>Le Devoir<\/em>\u00a0implied that letters sent by the commission to doctors, amounted to harassment.\u00a0 The letters questioned whether people who received euthanasia were at the \u201cend of life\u201d and \u201cable to consent\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Nowhere in the article did\u00a0<em>Le Devoir\u00a0<\/em>question the neutrality of commissioners who had expressed support for the euthanasia legislation.<\/li>\n<li>Following the publication of the article, the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois and Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire called for the removal of the two commissioners whose \u201cneutrality\u201d was called into question.<\/li>\n<li>In denouncing the call to remove the two members, Health Minister Gaetan Barrette stated that by having a mix of opinions on the commission, the result is a balanced, or \u201cneutral\u201d commission.<\/li>\n<li>This tempest in a teapot is only the latest in the ongoing campaign by\u00a0<em>Le Devoir\u00a0<\/em>in favour of euthanasia and against those who oppose it.\u00a0 In the past,\u00a0<em>Le Devoir\u00a0<\/em>has ignored the secular opposition and attacked opponents by claiming the opposition is based solely on religious or \u201cmoral\u201d arguments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FIRST MINOR DIES BY EUTHANASIA IN BELGIUM<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 17-year-old, \u201cterminally ill\u201d Belgian was euthanized in the Flanders region of that country, becoming the first minor to be euthanized since the law was changed in 2014 to allow for the killing of children.<\/li>\n<li>In order to be euthanized, a child must be in the final stage of a terminal illness, and must comprehend the implications of choosing death over life at a rational level. Minors also need to have asked to die on multiple occasions, and receive the consent of parents and two doctors, including a psychiatrist.\u00a0 Unlike in Holland, where the minimum age for consent to die is 12 years, Belgium has no minimum age for consent to die.<\/li>\n<li>Though news reports say the person was \u201csuffering unbearable physical pain\u201d there was no indication what palliative measures had been tried to control the pain.<\/li>\n<li>Among the questions to be studied in Canada over the next few years is the possibility of allowing minors to have euthanasia or assisted suicide.\u00a0 Many people believe that because suicide is already a major problem among adolescents, allowing them to be euthanized would work against the public policy to prevent teen suicides.<\/li>\n<li>In a related incident, 14-year-old Jerika Bolen died yesterday in the State of Wisconsin.\u00a0 Miss Bolen, who had spinal muscular atrophy, had declared her intention to stop life-sustaining treatment at the end of August.\u00a0 Instead of providing suicide prevention services, her supporters collected funds and held a prom for her, attended by 1,000 people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThis week, we look at biases in Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Commission on End of Life Care.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/2016\/09\/webcast-archive-quebecs-commission-on-end-of-life-care\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Webcast archive: Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Commission on End of Life Care&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/2016\/09\/webcast-archive-quebecs-commission-on-end-of-life-care\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Webcast archive: Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Commission on End of Life Care&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[282,121,306,53,101,118],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webcast-archive","tag-belgium","tag-euthanasia-disability","tag-minors","tag-quebec-en","tag-suicide","tag-webcast","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3635,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/3635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}