Canada risks ‘suicide contagion’ if MAID approved for mental illness

While the exclusion for mental illness is only due to expire in 2027, “people are getting MAID for psychiatric reasons under the guise of flimsy medical excuses, prolific MAID providers are happy to assist with suicide while people are on wait lists for effective treatment (and) MAID is being offered to veterans, disabled people and people with very treatable illnesses,” Maher said.