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Adrian Byram's avatar

Well stated as always !

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Andrew Roman's avatar

There may be another reason why track 2 is used by more women than men. Women live longer, and some men may have died before reaching the age where they may want to use MAIID.

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Eric Mathison's avatar

I considered this, but I don't see a way to evaluate it one way or the other with the data available. Maybe you or somebody else does though!

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Quiop's avatar

Couldn't gender discrepancies just as easily be evidence that one gender is suffering from lack of access to MAID? It is easy to imagine social factors that might disproportionately prevent people of one gender from getting their applications approved.

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Eric Mathison's avatar

Good point. The bias could be because one group is prevented, not because the other group is pushed.

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Eric Mathison's avatar

Definitely possible. Suicide rates have been going down, though it doesn't seem to be because of MAID deaths, but maybe there's something related going on.

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