Two individuals living with severe disabilities due to spinal muscular atrophy who testified at the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Justice and Human Rights explain their concerns both for themselves and for their fellow Canadians living with disabilities. Read more >>
Winnipeg MP Robert-Falcon Ouellette, whose father was a full-blooded Cree, linked physician-assisted death with the plague of suicides recently hitting the Attawapiskat First Nation in Northern Ontario. Read more >>
Supposedly stringent conditions limiting euthanasia are being challenged and breached by cases of mental distress.
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The Netherlands has seen a sharp increase in the number of people choosing to end their own lives due to mental health problems such as trauma caused by sexual abuse.