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Opposing Views: Assisted Dying – Mercy or Murder? | Dr. Ellen Wiebe & Dr. Mark Pickering EP 182

The Mikhaila Peterson Podcast

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Mental Illness Is a Massive Problem Within This Situation

Canadian law changed a year or two ago to remove that reasonably foreseeable death criteria then they put a clause in to say that in I think 2023 so coming up this year then it would then open out to people who purely have mental health conditions as well. There's been a lot of a lot of resistance to that more recently I understand and I think that's been paused but I don't think there's been any intention to to remove it. If your only problem is a severe depression or schizophrenia or a personality disorder if you are suffering mentally then you know how will that affect your decision making power, he says.

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