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Canada indefinitely delays euthanasia for mental illness
Original: Canada to indefinitely bar mental illness as sole reason for access to euthanasia
Canada will indefinitely exclude mental illness as the sole grounds for accessing medical assistance in dying, dropping its planned expansion of the euthanasia law. The change had already been repeatedly delayed amid fierce debate over whether psychiatric conditions can meet the required standard of irremediable suffering, and disability and mental health advocates have welcomed the latest decision.
Why now: Canada has been preparing to expand its assisted dying regime, and the indefinite postponement is a major reversal in an ongoing and divisive debate.
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