The New York Times shared an article titled “Is Choosing Death Too Easy in Canada?” on September 18th, 2022.
Executive Director of the Patients’ Rights Action Fund, Matt Vallière, wrote a letter to the editor responding to this article.
He writes:
“When care is denied or even merely delayed by budget-strapped public programs or greedy U.S. for-profit insurers, while assisted suicide is available, it sounds a lot less like choice and more like coercion and a quiet form of eugenics…”
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Mental Illness is not a Terminal Diagnosis Canada announced a delay in the implementation of assisted suicide for people with mental health disabilities. Since this delay, many proponents of and advocates against these laws have spoken up about this decision. Mr. Ashley Geddes wrote an article in the Alberta Times covering some of the reactions
