Assisted Dying in Canada: ‘People with mental illness are discriminated against’

this week that those living with an “insufferable” mental illness should be allowed to avail of assisted dying if they so wish.

That would apply to those given six months to live, such as in certain cancer diagnoses, or 12 months when it’s a neurodegenerative condition, like motor neuron disease.Mr Cowan said in Canada euthanasia was first introduced for those whose death is “reasonably foreseeable” as a result of certain conditions.

“You have to be in an advanced stage of decline and most importantly, you have to be suffering intolerably in a way that is not acceptable to you and can’t be relieved under any treatment or conditions which are acceptable to you. Mr Cowan, a board member of Dying With Dignity Canada, said the definition of intolerable suffering is subjective to the individual.

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