Assisted suicide now legal in Canada

[Lion Heart 15,041]

It's now legal for doctors and other healthcare providers in Canada to help patients die.

The federal government missed its June 6 deadline to implement its assisted death legislation, Bill C-14, so provinces across Canada are taking things into their own hands when it comes to regulating how and when people can end their own lives.

Canada joins other jurisdictions such as The Netherlands, Belgium, and Switzerland, all of which have their own rules around doctor-assisted suicide.

Ontario health minister Eric Hoskins announced Monday that drugs used to assist deaths will be available free of charge in the province, and that a referral service connecting patients with doctors willing to provide the service is being created. Over the last few months, numerous people in Ontario and across the country have been granted permission by provincial courts to die ahead of the federal government's new law.

A spokesperson for the minister told VICE News that the referral service will be a phone line patients can call if their current doctor is unwilling to help them die. The names of willing doctors will not be made public because of "security concerns in putting a list like that out."

https://news.vice.com/article/assisted-suicide-is-now-legal-in-canada-and-one-province-is-providing-free-drugs-to-do-it

[Illuminati 15,965]

It's worth to read the full article before going to judge this. I think it's a good thing they legalized it, i'm pro euthanasia 

[retroglamx 5,178]

I guess people can do whatever they can. 

[DrewStevens 5,249]

Good. People should be able to decide over their lives.