Advance requests in focus: The Quebec experience
Webinars | April 16, 2025
Advance requests in focus: The Quebec experience
The Greater Toronto Area Chapter of Dying With Dignity Canada was recently joined for a talk by neurosurgeon and President of the Quebec Association for the Right to Die with Dignity, Dr. Georges L’Espérance. In this conversation moderated by our CEO, Helen Long, Dr. L’Espérance described the context and processes by which Quebec became the only Canadian province whose government recognizes an individual’s written end-of-life options, known as advance requests.
Dr. Georges L’Espérance is a neurosurgeon based in Montreal, Quebec. He has more than thirty years of experience in Independent Medical Evaluation. His neurosurgical clinical experiences and his personal reflections naturally led him to question the purpose of medicine and particularly ethical questions such as over-medicalization and end-of-life issues. Since November 2014, he has been president of the Quebec Association for the Right to Die in Dignity (AQDMD – Association Québécoise pour le Droit de Mourir dans la Dignité) and now devotes most of his time to it and is involved in providing the ultimate compassionate care: a medically assisted death for those who want it.
