The Importance of Consent in Decision Making

Dr. Van Huwe is a general practitioner and president of one of the leading right to die organizations in Belgium. He's helped shape the country's policy towards euthanasia, which can be requested by patients with two basic conditions: mental or incurable. Canada first introduced medical assistance in dying or made where medics can help people end their life in 2016. At the time, it was only open to those whose natural death was reasonably foreseeable, for example, patients with terminal cancer. Five years later, the law was extended to adults who had a serious incurable illness or disability if they were in an advanced state of decline and endured intolerable physical or psychological suffering. That restriction was planned to be