Ethics Grand Rounds | Navigating the Ethical Landscape of Medical Aid in Dying: Emerging Challenges and Future

Resource List 

Supplemental Reading

General Information on Aid in Dying in the US:

• Death With Dignity | End-Of-Life Advocacy and Policy Reform

• Compassion & Choices | End-of-Life Resources

• American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying. Aid in Dying Ethics Consultation Service

• Journal of Aid-in-Dying Medicine by Journal of Aid-in-Dying Medicine - Issue 1

Institutional Restrictions/Access

• Colorado End-of-Life Options Act: A Clash of Organizational and Individual Conscience.

• Aggregating 23 years of data on medical aid in dying in the United States

• Medical Aid-in-Dying Utilization Report - Compassion & Choices

• Institutional Resistance to Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Arguments and Realities Emerging in the Public Domain

• Patient-Discharge-from-Hospice-Services-for-Pursuing-Medical-Aid-in-Dying.pdf

VSED as a Bridge to MAiD

• Medical aid in dying to avoid late‐stage dementia - Pope - 2024 - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - Wiley Online Library

• Using Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) to Avoid Late-Stage Dementia

•  Voluntary-Stopping-Eating-and-Drinking-and-Medical-Aid-in-Dying.pdf

Mental Disorders and MAID

• Legal Implications of Psychiatric Assessment for Medical Aid in Dying | Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 

• Some Anorexia Patients Want the Right to Die. A Few Doctors Are Willing to Listen.

• Terminal Anorexia Nervosa: Three Cases and Proposed Clinical Characteristics.

•  “Terminal Anorexia”: An Invalid Construct That Does Not Justify Medical Aid in Dying

• Ethics-Consultation-Anorexia-Nervosa-9-3-21.pdf

• Medical assistance in dying for people living with mental disorders: a qualitative thematic review | BMC Medical Ethics | Full Text

Additional Materials 

• Medical Aid-in Dying- Hastings Center

• Hospice and Medical-Aid-in-Dying: Addressing and Unethical Disconnect 

• Senate Bill S2445A

• Statement on Medical Aid in Dying

• States Where Medical Aid in Dying is Authorized

• Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying: Provider Concentration, Policy Capture, and Need for Reform