Assisted Dying

• Quebec committee says Alzheimer’s patients should get access to doctor assisted death

  The current law, adopted in 2014, set out strict criteria that include informed consent of a patient until their death.

  Canada

  Dec 8, 2021
  
• Suicide pods being developed in Switzerland, providing users with a painless death

  The sarco pods allow users to push a button from the inside, which floods the interior with nitrogen, lowering the oxygen level, killing the user painlessly.

  Trending

  Dec 7, 2021
  
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• Medically assisted deaths rose by 17% in 2020, continuing upward trend: Health Canada

  A Health Canada official provided the latest statistics at a meeting of the newly launched joint parliamentary committee that is reviewing Canada's assisted dying regime.

  Health

  Jun 8, 2021
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• Parliamentary review of assisted dying law held up by Senate wrangling over co-chair

  Four senators have been chosen to sit on the committee by three of the four Senate groups.

  Canada

  Apr 27, 2021
• Psychiatrists more open to assisted dying for people with mental illnesses: survey

  Canadian psychiatrists' attitude toward medical assistance in dying for people with mental illnesses appears to have undergone a sea change over the past five years.

  Canada

  Mar 20, 2021
• Canadian Senate passes Bill C-7, expanding assisted dying to include mental illness

  The bill is expected to receive royal assent later tonight.

  Canada

  Mar 17, 2021
• Collaboration between House of Commons, Senate on assisted dying bill praised by senator

  Gold said the government responded respectfully and thoughtfully to the Senate's amendments, rejecting two but building on three others.

  Canada

  Mar 15, 2021
• House passes revised assisted dying bill with Liberal, Bloc Quebecois support

  Conservative, NDP and two of three Green MPs opposed.

  Canada

  Mar 11, 2021
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• Feds gets another month to expand access to assisted dying as bill stalls in the Commons

  Quebec Superior Court Justice Martin Sheehan agreed to give the government a fourth extension -- until March 26 -- to bring the law into compliance with a 2019 court ruling.

  Canada

  Feb 25, 2021
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• Canadians with mental illness should be eligible for assisted death, feds agree

  It is one of a number of changes to Bill C-7 proposed by the government in response to amendments approved last week by the Senate.

  Canada

  Feb 23, 2021