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Also, right now in Canada, assisted death is not available if your pain is from mental illness.
by simlevesque 6y ago
Also, right now in Canada, assisted death is not available if your pain is from mental illness.
- starkd 6y agodoes alzheimer's really count as mental illness though? I would think it was more of a disability.
- gingerbread-man 6y agoAlzheimer’s is a neurological disease with a well-documented physiological pathology and terminal prognosis. Mental illnesses generally lack both of those things. The ethics of assisted suicide for terminal patients are distinct, I think, and it’s understandable than terminal patients were the first to have this right recognized under law.