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Opposition parties call for indefinite pause to MAID expansion for mental illness (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 9 months ago by ValueSubtracted@startrek.website to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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[–] Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago (16 children)

In my opinion not expanding it to mental illness is short sighted.

Many people suffer in silence, or don’t let known the extent of their feelings of their mental illness and this could be an opportunity to open a dialogue with their doctor.

This could be an opportunity to let known the extent of their illness and seek alternative treatments before MAID as part of the requirements.

If people are at that point it may happen anyway but without anyone knowing how bad it had become.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 22 points 9 months ago (15 children)

To me, this is the crux of it:

Dr. Jitender Sareen is part of a group of eight university psychiatry chairs who wrote to federal ministers and urged the committee not to expand MAID to include mental illness.

Sareen said practice standards to guide psychiatrists and clinicians are inadequate, and Canada is lagging behind other countries in mental health and addictions funding.

"Offering death when the person has not had the opportunity to get better, with or without treatment, is, in our opinion, not acceptable," said Sareen, a professor and head of the department of psychiatry at the University of Manitoba.

If mental health supports in this country were anything close to adequate, it would be a different conversation.

[–] ragica@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To me this perspective seems to reach the exact opposite conclusion than it should given its premises.

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