‘Awful for patients’: Frustration grows over delay in assisted dying expansion
“It’s difficult telling people that they have to wait yet another year,” she said, in the case of those whose irremediable condition is a mental illness.
But he doubled down on the delay, saying it is the “prudent path forward” so the government can consider expert recommendations and practitioners can get up to speed on how to assess the complex cases. Because when it gets to that point, he may not be able to lucidly articulate to practitioners that an assisted death is what he wants, as is currently required by law.
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