Canadians next year is set to allow resident to chose medically-assisted death solely on the basis of mental illness. Pauli cannot legally get medical help to die – yet.
The country’s expansion of criteria for medically-assisted death comes into force March 2024.
Canada legalized assisted death in 2016 for people with terminal illness and expanded it two years ago to include people with incurable, but not terminal, conditions.
Canada including mental illness will make the country one of the most expansive in the world regarding medical assistance in dying.