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Canada Delays Euthanasia for Mental Illness, Eyes Dementia Cases
Original: Canada Backs Off Euthanasia for Mental Illness, Targets Dementia Patients
Canada is reported to be stepping back from expanding its medical assistance in dying (MAID) programme to people whose sole condition is mental illness, while attention shifts toward patients with dementia. The country legalised assisted dying in 2016 and has repeatedly delayed the mental illness expansion, which remains one of the most contested medical-ethics debates in the world.
Why now: Canada's ongoing expansion of assisted dying, particularly the repeatedly postponed mental illness eligibility, remains a globally debated ethics issue.
Evidence
- Canada Backs Off Euthanasia for Mental Illness, Targets Dementia Patients · Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence
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