An alarm bell is ringing on medically assisted death for mental illness
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An alarm bell is ringing on medically assisted death for mental illness
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PUBLISHED MAY 6, 2026
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Alarm bells don’t get much louder than the written brief from the heads of psychiatry at 13 Canadian medical schools urging Ottawa to stop the expansion of medically assisted death to those whose only condition is mental illness.
The 16 names at the top of the brief, submitted to the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dyin…
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