This article seeks to assess the results of legislation legalizing medical termination, known in Canada as "medical aide in dying" in 2016. Its focus, like that of previous authors, is to ask if the concerns of skeptics opposed to legalization have been realized or were they unfounded. These include the likelihood of a “slippery slope” with an expanding definition of eligibility and of MAiD deaths. Of similar concern at least since 1995 was the likelihood that, in the absence of the provision of palliative, rehabilitative, psychological and social services that medical termination would be a substitute for good medical care. These and other concerns are the basis for the review of MAiD in Canada clinically, legally and as an ethical construct.

本文旨在评估医疗终止合法化立法的结果，该立法在 2016 年在加拿大被称为“临终医疗助手”。与前几位作者一样，它的重点是询问反对合法化的怀疑论者的担忧是否已经实现或他们没有根据吗？其中包括随着资格和 MAiD 死亡定义的扩大而出现“滑坡”的可能性。至少自 1995 年以来，同样令人担忧的是，在没有提供姑息、康复、心理和社会服务的情况下，医疗终止可能会替代良好的医疗服务。这些和其他问题是在加拿大临床、法律和伦理结构审查 MAiD 的基础。