Medical Assistance in Dying - Fraser Health

End of Life Care / Palliative Care

Provided by Fraser Health

This Fraser Health website provides an overview of MAiD services.
Medical assistance in dying is legal in Canada for eligible patients.
Medical assistance in dying refers to a doctor or nurse practitioner helping a person, at their request, to end their life. The person must want to voluntarily and intentionally end their life.

Medical assistance can be in one of two ways. Either the doctor or nurse practitioner gives a medicine to the person that causes death, or they prescribe a medicine for the person to take themselves that causes death. For both ways, the doctor or nurse practitioner is present for the death.

Deciding to have medical assistance in dying is deeply personal. Anyone thinking about this should talk with their family, their loved ones and anyone else who can support them through the process.

Website: https://www.fraserhealth.ca/health...

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Service area: Fraser Health Area

Service Types Provided
Ways to Access
  • Service provided 1:1 in-person

The listing of this service in Pathways is not a recommendation or endorsement by Pathways.

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