Canada suspended plans to allow medically assisted death for people with mental illness
Canada will not expand its medically assisted dying law to include people whose sole condition is mental illness.
- Canada will indefinitely exclude people with mental illness as their sole condition from medical assistance in dying.
- The law was updated in 2021 to allow assisted dying for adults with irremediable physical conditions causing immense suffering.
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