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Podcast: The Big Story
Episode: First Person: A disabled person living in the age of MAiD
Description: The debate around Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying legislation is exhaustive, and there is no shortage of opinion out there from doctors, advocates, experts and academics, as well as first-person testimonials from terminally ill people who are availing themselves of the system. One of the perspectives often missing in that debate, however, are disabled people, many of whom say they feel the system pushes them towards using MAiD by making them feel like a burden on society.Today, using a text-to-speech program, we present one of those opinions, a woman who is leading a charge to preserve...