Doctors say allowing assisted suicide for the mentally ill risks mass deaths
A committee meeting exposed flaws in the existing assisted suicide program’s data tracking, as it doesn’t screen for those with existing suicidal risk factors.
Medical experts are sounding the alarm over the push to expand assisted suicide to the mentally ill, warning that the government would kill countless people who could otherwise live and that the program fails to screen for pre-existing suicide risk factors.
During a special committee meeting on the government’s assisted suicide program, also known as Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), Dr. Sonu Gaind, a full clinical professor at the University of Toronto’s department of psychiatry and addiction, and Dr. Trudo Lemons, chair of health law and policy at the same school, dismantled legal arguments and “reassurances” from the program’s advocates.
