Justin Bogner
Independent author of the Autonomy & Capacity policy packet.
Funding, Affiliation, and Conflicts
This publication is fully independent. The author has received no funding, commission, or compensation from any government, political party, advocacy organization, professional society, foundation, religious body, pharmaceutical or medical-device manufacturer, healthcare insurer, or healthcare provider in connection with this work.
The packet is not the official position of any organization. Where the work names jurisdictions, statutes, or institutions, those references are descriptive, not endorsements; where it advocates a position, that advocacy is the author's alone.
The argument advanced in this packet is offered as a contribution to public debate, not as clinical, legal, or political advice. Readers are invited to engage with the strongest forms of objection — see Objections & Responses — and to test the framework against jurisdictional models reviewed in the Legal Foundations document.
A Reform Argued From the Inside Out
Existing Medical Aid in Dying frameworks across North America make eligibility turn on judgments about the quality of a person's suffering. Those judgments are unequal in their application and incoherent on their own terms — a person with capacity is universally entitled to refuse life-sustaining treatment, but the same person, with the same capacity, can be denied access to active means.
This packet was written because no published work known to the author treats decisional capacity as the unifying criterion across both contexts, develops the procedural safeguards that follow from it, and addresses the strongest objections — disability-rights, depressive incapacity, slippery-slope, fiscal-rationale — in a single integrated argument.
The companion essay, available here, gives the personal context. Readers are encouraged to read it last; the policy case is structured to stand without it.
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