Assisted suicide advocate grilled over mental illness expansion
Dying with Dignity CEO defended euthanasia expansion for mental illness at a recent Parliamentary sub-committee meeting.
Helen Long, CEO of Dying with Dignity Canada, testified Tuesday before the Special Joint Committee on “Medical Assistance in Dying,” arguing for the expansion of one of the world’s largest legal euthanasia programs to allow Canadians suffering solely from mental illness to access assisted suicide.
Conservative MP Andrew Lawton grilled Long over her position, as numerous witnesses and experts told the committee that mental illness is often treatable and that facilitating medical euthanasia could lead to the deaths of people who may have otherwise recovered.
