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What is a 'safe death'? Mentally ill woman asks for assisted dying in Canada

Canada's Assisted Dying Law Reaches Its Hardest Question: When Is Suffering Enough?

Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program, one of the world's most expansive, is facing renewed scrutiny as a mentally ill woman seeks eligibility for assisted dying on the basis of psychiatric illness alone. Canada has repeatedly delayed extending MAiD to mental illness as the sole und...

Whether you engage with this debate thoughtfully rather than reactively. Whether you seek out the actual legislative text and clinical guidelines rather than forming opinions from a single headline...