Canada approved a grandmother for medical assistance in dying after she said she could no longer cook for her family and felt she had lost her value as the household matriarch.

She did not have cancer, organ failure, or a reasonably foreseeable natural death.

A later conversation with family, something the law does not require, changed her mind and she remains alive.

In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth looks at how MAID began in 2016 as a narrow option for terminal illness, then expanded in 2021 when Parliament removed the foreseeable-death requirement.

It also covers Ottawa's indefinite suspension of plans to allow MAID solely for mental illness, and why that pause does not reverse the 2021 changes or stop work on advance requests for conditions such as dementia.

Dan argues that "intolerable suffering" is already being applied broadly, with no requirement that treatment be tried or that the reasons for the request be fully examined, and he outlines practical steps families can still take.