A right to die, but first a better life
If all had gone according to plan, medical assistance in dying for people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness would be two weeks away from becoming a reality in Canada.
Just last month, a report by Parliament’s Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying recommended further expanding a legal option, first made law in 2016 in response to a Supreme Court decision, that was intended only for mentally competent adults suffering intolerably from incurable diseases, and whose natural death – either from disease or age – was reasonably foreseeable.
That opened the door to expanding MAID to people with mental illnesses, setting up the deadline that would have arrived this month but is now put off to March, 2024. But the pendulum is now swinging toward a far more permissive and troubling set of rules. The recommendation that children be allowed to request MAID without their parents’ consent is morally fraught and should not happen. Helping children die wasn’t what the Supreme Court envisioned in 2015; otherwise, it would not have limited access to assisted death to adults.
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