Thanks for the resource references. The kids' book on MAID is really well done. and would be great for adults too, given how much most of us regress when talking about death and dying in a death-phobic culture.

The legal basics in Canada appear to be mostly the same as in USA states that support MAID. The same hoops to go through, multiple doctors signing off, then waiting yet more, and so on. The main difference I see is that in the states I am familiar with (OR and CA) it's a liquid medicine one has to imbibe oneself, and not a series of IVs that a medical practitioner administers. In those states at least, only a small percentage who actually get the prescription ever use it.

The reality of MAID, as I learned with my father's illness and death recently, is that the process is more than people can manage once they are already seriously ill. By the time my dad thought it over a few times, and was in such bad shape he might have wanted the option, he didn't have the capacity left to get thru the process.

There's no 'killing machine' in this anywhere. But there are those whose fear of death is so overwhelming they would deny others suffering greatly with terminal illness an option to end that suffering by their own choice.