Vanessa Rampton presented on cultural artefacts at the ‘MAiD at Ten’ conference

Vanessa Rampton presented at the conference MAiD at Ten: Lessons from Canada’ s First Decade, held at the University of Lethbridge on October 30-31, 2026. Her presentation, titled “Taking Stock: A Decade of Cultural Artefacts on MAiD in Canada,“ explored different categories of artistic representations of MAiD through approximately 25 books and films reviewed in Assisted Lab’s archive. She argued that cultural works have profoundly influenced the politics of assisted dying, and that taking them seriously means acknowledging art’s ability to cut across simplistic pro- and anti- perspectives on MAiD and to capture the muddy middle.