As of Oct. 30, people with dementia in Quebec are allowed to make advance requests for MAiD, before they lose the capacity to provide informed consent.
Melatonin is generally used for eastward travel only, since westward travel is easier to adapt to naturally, making melatonin unnecessary unless travel spans 12 or more time zones.
Four-year-old Ian Ytsma was born with an unbalanced atrioventricular septal defect, which is a lack of symmetry between left and right sides of the heart.
Proponents of advance requests for MAiD have long argued that patients suffering from neurocognitive illnesses should be able to consent while they’re still competent to do so, an ability they are likely to lose as their disease progresses.
