Canada will expand eligibility for medical assistance in dying in 2023 to include individuals with a mental disorder as the sole underlying condition.
whose brother claims that he was unlawfully"put to death" in 2019 after submitting a MAID application that listed hearing loss as the reason for his request.
"Now that we've decided to do it," he said,"I think we're obligated to do it with great care, great diligence, and meticulous attention to the detail of how this evolves — the same way we've done with everything from airline safety to drug safety. That hasn't been happening with MAID."states that there were 10,064 deaths involving MAID in 2021, accounting for 3.3% of all deaths in Canada and bringing the total number of MAID cases since 2016 to 31,664.
Only 4% of applications for MAID were rejected, far less than in other countries, such as the Netherlands, which rejects 12% to 16% of applications, according to Trudo Lemmens, DCL, a University of Toronto law professor who, like Schipper, is a member of the Council of Canadian Academies Expert Panel on Advanced Requests for MAID. In an email comment to
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