Tag Archives: mental illness

In a Nutshell: Correcting the record about medical assistance in dying

May 17, 2022 · by · in Canada, Canadian Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Death and Dying, Law & Policy, MAiD, Mental Health, physician-assisted dying, vulnerability

Jocelyn Downie clarifies what the Supreme Court of Canada’s Carter decision actually says (and doesn’t say) about advance requests for MAiD and MAiD for psychiatric illness.

Unmuddying the waters of the law and MAiD for mental illness

January 10, 2022 · by · in Canada, Canadian Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Death and Dying, Law & Policy, MAiD, Mental Health, physician-assisted dying, vulnerability

Jocelyn Downie rebuts misleading claims about the law and medical assistance in dying for mental illness advanced by psychiatrists Mark Sinyor and Ari Zaretsky in a recent Op-Ed.

Exceptionalizing Mental Illness & Medical Assistance in Dying

March 11, 2021 · by · in Canada, Canadian Bioethics, Community, Death & Assisted Dying, euthanasia, MAiD, Mental Health, Older Adults, physician-assisted dying, Privacy and Trust, Public Health, vulnerability

Daryl Pullman examines the argument that prohibiting medical assistance in dying for people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness unfairly exceptionalizes mental illness.

Mental Illness and Access to Assisted Dying

February 15, 2017 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy, Mental Health

Ryan Tanner responds to objections to allowing medical assistance in dying for persons suffering from mental illness as the sole underlying medical condition.

Assisted Dying, Mental Illness, & Patient Age

December 8, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy, Mental Health

Ellen Wiebe, a physician who has provided medical assistance in dying, discusses her views about providing this service when the request is from a young person suffering from mental illness.

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