Lethal injections can be administered by those trained for that work. They would execute the requests made. Autonomy is the goal now, so it is no longer a matter of a professional judgment being made. It is simply a service being rendered. The necessary training would be comparable to that of lab technicians who draw blood.
Some might be queasy about the title, as “executor” sounds a bit too much like “executioner.” We haven’t had executions in Canada for a very long time, so there is little danger of confusion here. But the experience of the death penalty is instructive. While practices vary from place to place, the general view is that execution is not a medical treatment, and so medical professionals should not administer it. That a death is requested makes assisted suicide different in kind from an execution, but it is does not make the death a medical treatment. There is, in fact, no diagnosis for which the recommended therapy is a lethal injection.
So there is already a significant body of philosophical reflection on whether the medical profession should facilitate death, either as a punishment or a requested therapy. Prof. Margaret Somerville, the internationally distinguished philosopher emerita at McGill University, suggested something like “executors” years ago.
With all due respect, you have a responsibility to provide accurate info. For example, how do you know someone with a mental illness, in two years from now, will be eligible for MAID?
This is the start of the selection of those deemed unworthy to live.
But Raymond don’t we need a doctor there in case it doesn’t go well and they die? Oh. Oops. Nevermind. Good idea
Very incoherent writing Father - definitely not in character. Suicide has been an option since the dawn of time, as has the ability to kill someone if you have tired of caring for them. The adminstration of the drug is not the point of MAID, as you well know.
This piece is a rambling mess.
Leave it to the mafia and cartel hitmen. They are absolute professionals in this area.