Faith Seeking Understanding: Medical Assistance in Dying

Canada is one of few countries in the world where medical assistance in dying (MAiD) is a legal option—and the number of permitted contexts (terminal illness, chronic illness, mental illness) is increasing. This collection of essays (and corresponding questions for reflection) has been made available to help the wider church discuss and increase understanding of the realities of MAiD—for our communities, our role as Christians, vulnerable populations, healthcare, social justice, God's gift of life, and our call to care for those who suffer.

Contents and contributing authors:
• Foreword, Archbishop Linda Nicholls
• Introduction, J. Eileen Scully
• Let Love Speak, June Maffin
• Medical Assistance in Dying? What Does Love Require Of Us? Cate McBurney
• Pastoral Reflections on Medical Assistance in Dying,Trish McCarthy
• Choices: A Personal Theological Reflection on the MAiD Protocol, Bruce Wheatcroft
• MAiD in Long Term Care in Manitoba: An Evolving Process, Chris Salstrom
• MAiD and One Chaplain’s Reflections, Donald Shields
• MAiD: Crossing Too Soon? A Personal Pastoral Reflection, Bertrand Olivier
• Living in the Tension: Contradictions in Codes of Conduct, Marty Levesque
• End of Life Decision: A Christian Perspective, Miranda Sutherland
• Dying in Grace and Compassion, Sister Kathryn Tulip
• What’s a Life Worth, Anyways? Paul H. Friesen
• An Invitation to Further Reflection and Conversation Regarding Medical Assistance in Dying, Peter Armstrong
• A Life More Human, Maggie Helwig
• The Church Alive in the World: How Centring in the Poor in Christian Communities Changes Everything, Angie Hocking
• Position Statement on Medical Assistance in Dying, The Prayer Book Society of Canada
• In Sure and Certain Hope of Death? A Declining Church Embraces Canada’s Euthanasia Regime, Chris Dow
• Euthanasia and Christian Tradition: A Critique of ‘MAiD’ , John Berkman
• Recovering the Art of Dying: On the Church’s Response to MAiD, Ben Crosby
• The Normalization of MAiD: Reflexion on MAiD Technology and the Human Desire for Control, Ian Ritchie
• The Challenge of Choice: The Rhetoric of and Response to Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada, Jesse Zink
• Peering Over the Threshold, Ephraim Radner
In the Midst of Death we are in Life, Lizette Larson-Miller
• O Death, Where is Your Sting? The Pendeli Statement on Medically Assisted Dying, Christopher Brittain