Ramona Coelho

Family doc/ Adjunct Research Prof UWO/ Senior Fellow @MLInstitute/ Co-editor, Unravelling MAiD in Canada/ Served on MAiD Death Review Committee: posts my own

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

A year ago, I analyzed MAID deaths from a report by Ontario’s Chief Coroner.

Now my analysis, which includes the case of Mrs. B, is in global headlines as she received MAID the same day she was declined palliative hospice care.

This is not hypothetical.
https://t.co/9nOWCjTV0M

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

@Kelsisheren @hamsportschiro If interested, here is the academic article and has links to each government report.

Also, a link to some of my op-eds with references, including my latest in the Globe and Mail.

Best wishes

https://t.co/XSTAS7lXlR

https://t.co/4TQabA8kyX

[Patrick Brethour @PatrickBrethour]

Globe editorial: The Liberals are right to restrict MAID
https://t.co/9WUuhv7F6P

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

Full 19-minute debate here:

https://t.co/Yipzk3wDbi

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

Ten years in, MAiD is an ever-present danger to disabled people. Start by repealing Track 2, as the UN disability rights committee has told Canada to do.
Flimsy safeguards. Vague legislative language. No enforcement.
My debate with Dr. Stefanie Green on CBC’s Sunday Magazine 👇

[National Post @nationalpost]

B.C. found hundreds of MAID 'compliance concerns' in 2024, according to an internal B.C. government document.

The findings are bolstering calls for stronger, independent oversight of the country’s assisted death regime https://t.co/WQcmzDnFvK

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

Hundreds of "compliance concerns." Half of all B.C. assisted-death cases in 2024 had reporting errors.
353 clinicians or pharmacists needed "re-education."
The province won't say how many went to police or a regulator.
"If half the paperwork is wrong on a procedure that ends in death, that isn't clerical."

My comments in @nationalpost 👇
https://t.co/pXQJCibKUs

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

"There are stupid clinicians. We need to make sure it's done well and oversight's mandatory." — a MAiD practitioner, in a peer-reviewed study.

Parliament should deliver.

https://t.co/eJnPvZXQRc @MLInstitute

[Isabel Grant @igrantubc]

Canada now has same-day MAiD and it's not easy-to-read about. Thanks to Ontario's death review committee for doing this work @TrudoLemmens
https://t.co/czfeva1E6r

[Sarah Colero @Sarah_Colero]

Systemically vulnerable disabled people in Canada have noted this in the C7 legislation since before it was implemented.

Mental illness alone? Not yet. (Now March 17 2027)

Physical and/or neurological disability *plus a mental illness*? MAID currently active and approved.

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

Jocelyn Downie argues a physical disability opens the MAID door, even if the person's decline is driven by mental illness. Her opinions increase existing dangers that people with disabilities get MAID instead of suicide prevention and care.

Concerns noted by both UNCRPD & IASP

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

I'm honoured to have endorsed The Other Side of the Straitjacket by Alicia Duncan. This moving account brings the complex questions surrounding assisted dying into sharp relief. 👇🏽

[Alicia Duncan @aliciaduncan_xo]

My mother’s MAiD death changed everything. Our personal grief led to the first MAiD police investigation in Canada, testifying before gov't and speaking with policymakers internationally.
The Other Side of the Straitjacket examines the questions we aren’t asking.
📖 Pre-order ↓

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

Here is the oped accessible : https://t.co/RQi3d23O9n

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

MAiD is a legal exemption to homicide.
The least we owe Canadians is a law that makes wrongful deaths harder, not easier.
My latest in @globeandmail on why Parliament must go further. (link in reply)
@MLInstitute #cdnpoli

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

https://t.co/hNX1bXdbGc

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

@Sarah_Colero My pleasure Sarah! 🤗

[Macdonald-Laurier Institute @MLInstitute]

“As Parliament considers the next phase of MAID legislation, it must confront whether the law’s central concepts are precise. Avoiding unnecessary deaths requires clear statutory definitions of 'reasonably foreseeable natural death,' 'grievous and irremediable,' and 'intolerable suffering,' along with oversight to stop interpretive drift and doctor-shopping. It requires restoring minimum waiting periods under Track 1 and introducing a real-time mechanism to pause MAID assessments when concerns are raised by families or clinicians,” writes MLI Senior Fellow Ramona Coelho (@rljcoelho) in the @globeandmail.

Read here⬇️
https://t.co/AekMCqTJA1

[Patrick Brethour @PatrickBrethour]

A thoughtful piece from @rljcoelho :
The MAID committee got it right on mental illness. But Parliament must go further /via @globeandmail https://t.co/WUD9dIfIXi

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

Canadian doctor assesses a man for 'MAiD' in the car park of a coffee shop, then drives him to a morgue, where he kills him.

The man had inflammatory bowel disease and a history of mental illness.

The professional regulator rules that he can continue to kill other patients.

[Macdonald-Laurier Institute @MLInstitute]

"The fundamental expectation of #health care should be to rush to care for the patient... not rush them toward death without efforts to mitigate suffering or ensure free and informed consent." - Senior Fellow, Dr. Ramona Coelho
https://t.co/goFKDSOZ4g

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

@MadAboutPaper @TrudoLemmens @Psych_MD Thank you! 😊