Canada’s euthanasia system should be a warning sign for other countries considering the move, MPs have been told There are reports people have been offered help to die if they do not have adequate access to social support and care PMGallagher1 reports:
Canada’s euthanasia system should be a warning sign for other countries considering the move amid reports of people being offered help to die if they do not have adequate access to social support and care, MPs have been told.
Dr Scott Kim, a professor in psychiatry at the University of Michigan and senior investigator at the department of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health in the US, said Canada’s medical assistance in dying law is not a last-resort measure. Canadian professor Trudo Lemmens said he had been a supporter of initial legislation but it has become a “form of harm reduction”.
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