Feds to scrap near-death condition for medically assisted dying cdnpoli
The consultation schedule — which leaves only six weeks for the government to draft new legislation and pass it through the House of Commons and Senate in time to meet the court’s deadline — suggests the government will have to ask the court for an extension.Justice Christine Baudouin ruled that it is unconstitutional for the federal law to restrict eligibility for a medically assisted death to those whose natural death is “reasonably foreseeable.
The online questionnaire asks people to consider what safeguards should be put in place to prevent abuse if the foreseeable death requirement is removed from the law.The current 10-day period of reflection between requesting and receiving a medically assisted death should be increased. Mandatory consultation with an expert in a person’s medical condition should be required, in addition to the current mandatory two medical assessments.
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