Newfoundland man says expanding Medical Assistance in Dying to include mental illness is 'all the fears I tried to put out of my mind as irrational' | SaltWire

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Newfoundland man says expanding Medical Assistance in Dying to include mental illness is 'all the fears I tried to put out of my mind as irrational' | SaltWire
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“When I was at the exact end of my rope ... it would not have helped me in that moment to have known that the medical system could help me with this,' Jamie Ruby told Andrewlwaterman in speaking about MAID eligibility expanding in Canada. SaltWire

Medical assistance in dying eligibility will expand to include mental illness as a sole reason on March 17, 2023.Second of a two-part series about medical assistance in dying being expanded to mental illness in Canada.‘A slap in the face’: As MAID eligibility expands to mental health next year, it will take N.L.

“Then you bring in mental conditions for it … it is all the fears I tried to put out of my mind as irrational and ‘Oh, we won’t do that,’ when this was first being brought around.”“But Medical Assistance in Dying is presented as an option to people with physical health issues because suicide is not the conclusion to that physical health issue,” he said.

“One of the things he said is you really have to understand that this is a social contract. Somebody is asking for this and we’re going to honour their autonomy because it is within the confines of the law,” she said.

“Because of everything that’s going on with COVID and inflation, that’s a number of different people, that rate has gone up. And we know that we haven’t created more clinicians, more pathways, or more access. There’s a certain group of people that are going to be disproportionately impacted.”"There’s a certain group of people that are going to be disproportionately impacted.

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