Medical Assistance in Dying - What Is It? Exploring the history of MAID and its reality.

Event Date(s): Sat, 2024/11/09 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Event Location: Tyndale University: Kimmerle Hall OR Online - Zoom
Event Type: Tyndale Centre for Grief and Loss

An explanation of MAID, enriched by an overview of a) legal development (Criminal Code and Charter) and b) medical development (eligibility and safeguards, MAID vis-a-vis other forms of end-of-life care, and practitioner/institutional conscientious objection).

Dr. Patterson is a Christian ethicist at the Salvation Army Ethics Centre, adjunct faculty at Booth University and lecturer at Tyndale. Her Ph.D. thesis from McGill University was on the ethics of care at the end of life. As one who suffers with the unexpected diagnosis of a brain tumor, she wrote the book “Suffering Well and Suffering With”.

Single Day Rates

  • In-Person: $80
  • Online: $60
  • Tickets go on sale: August 8, 2024 at 10 am
  • Sale ends: November 1, 2024 at 8 pm
With a continental breakfast from 8:30am to 9:00am for those attending in-person

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