Eric Mathison
@mathisonej
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Assistant professor of philosophy @UTSC. I write about ethics at https://t.co/kufzDQYXQY and make videos at https://t.co/O6J4bnMMRW
Toronto, Ontario
Joined August 2009
Thank you. Do Catholic hospitals next.
Biden should resign to mess up all of Trump's 47-branded merch.
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A lot of people are saying.
@philipmurraylaw @yuanyi_z Dignity for some is fundamentally inseparable from agency and autonomy. To me the failure of the anti AS proponents to recognise this is disappointing. At its core, opposition to AS is driven by particular value judgements, which those affected may not share. The argument for AS
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It's truly wild to fill this article with stats but not mention that slightly more men get assisted dying, that Kim Leadbeater, a woman, tabled the bill, and that Liz Carr and Esther Rantzen are prominent voices in the debate. @hannahshewans
https://t.co/XenxXbvJVG
glamourmagazine.co.uk
“Not every woman has supportive offspring; not every woman has the financial means to make choices in that situation.”
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Last year, I stopped reading the news. I think you should too. Welcome to No News November. https://t.co/atncd7SIZE
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I evaluate the gender claim here: https://t.co/Wx7xYvjtne I evaluate the marginalization claim here: https://t.co/KBpJKDqm65
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The data simply don't support Gaind's conclusion of 'social murder'.
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The data on neurological conditions, which were nearly tied for the most common reason people use T2 MAID, show that recipients live in less marginalized areas.
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Randomness can fully explain this, as can a lot of other explanations, such as sex differences in chronic pain and neurological conditions for the gender difference. On housing and labour force participation, the report explicitly cautions against the error Gaind keeps making:
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Since there were only 116 track-2 deaths, it's important to look at the raw numbers. 28.4% of people in the lowest material-resource quintile is an extra 9 people from an even distribution. The gender imbalance is due to 26 more women than men having T2 MAID.
In yesterday's @bmj_latest, several pieces on #AssistedDying . Here's my response, up on BMJ now, to the editorial: https://t.co/OMmLTSt610
@AlexanderRaikin @yuanyi_z @uoftmedicine @APApsychiatric @OntariosDoctors @OntPsychAssoc @TrudoLemmens
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Here's an important article by palliative medicine physicians who support assisted dying but are being silenced.
bmj.com
The Association for Palliative Medicine continues to misinform on palliative medicine doctors’ stance on assisted dying, say Sam H Ahmedzai, Samuel Fingas, and three anonymous colleagues Five years...
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Gaind and Ramona Coelho have both drawn attention to the fact that women are twice as likely to attempt suicide. But they both leave out that men are three times as likely to die by suicide. Both issues need to be addressed, so leaving men out is missing a crucial statistic.
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First, the differences are simply too small to draw conclusions. In Ontario, it amounts to 26 more women than men having track 2 MAID. Second, there are sex-based differences in medical conditions, including that women are 4x likely to get MS.
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The recent Ontario data shows that women make up 60% of track 2 MAID cases. This has caused some, including @Psych_MD and @igrantubc, to argue that this is evidence of a problem. In my latest post, I look at the data. https://t.co/Wx7xYvjtne
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Amanda is once again mischaracterizing the proposal. Allowing advance directives for MAID would mean anyone could add "I want MAID in situation x" to their advance directive at any point. The actual proposal is an agreement with a provider upon diagnosis of a medical condition.
In 2020, @viraniarif said: "It is an absolute red herring... We are not proposing advance directives; we are proposing advance consent." Today it was announced: "The Government of Canada will launch a national conversation in November 2024 on the topic of advance requests."
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Unfortunately, @Psych_MD left this out of his analysis when he argued that Canada is committing 'social murder', choosing instead to use the data the report says aren't meaningful.
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This is true even of track two MAID. For instance, the distribution of people with neurodegenerative diseases, which makes up a lot of T2 cases, shows that MAID recipients are on average *less marginalized than the general population*.
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The newest Ontario MAID data show that MAID continues to be used more frequently by non-marginalized people. Claims to the contrary misunderstand the report. Here's my latest: https://t.co/KBpJKDqTVD
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The problem here is clearly the lack of support this man is receiving, not whether he can access assisted dying. There's an easy test: If AD continues to be banned, is that going to do anything to help him? No? Then put your effort into improving disability supports.
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My main finding from following the UK assisted dying debate is that people have differing feelings about Esther Rantzen.
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