The court never did write \u0027yup, there’s a charter right to suicide\u0027 in big letters with a Sharpie
Lametti intends to change the law in order to make medically assisted suicide available to persons whose intolerable suffering is caused only by a mental illness, although as it happens, he delayed the expansion by another year almost at the exact moment the letter was released. The minister has repeatedly asserted that he is bound by “the courts” to legalize medical assistance in dying for psychiatric patients.
And in finally obliterating part of the Criminal Code, the justices tacked on a coy note that, “The scope of this declaration is intended to respond to the factual circumstances in this case. We make no pronouncement on other situations where physician-assisted dying may be sought.”Article content The court didn’t define those circumstances narrowly, but its analysis focuses almost exclusively on the patient’s capacity for voluntary consent — consent that many mentally ill people are, and will be, perfectly able to exercise. And lower courts, obliged to “pronounce on other situations” despite the Supreme Court’s refusal, have given MAID lots of leeway, though not yet on the psychiatric front.
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