Within a month, Nichols submitted a request to be euthanized and he was killed, despite concerns raised by his family and a nurse practitioner.
Canada is set to expand euthanasia access next year, but these advocates say the system warrants further scrutiny now. Canada’s initial 2016 euthanasia law granted the procedure for people aged 18 and over who met several conditions, including having a “grievous and irremediable” medical condition causing unbearable suffering, and whose death was reasonably foreseeable. Legislators later removed the restriction that death be imminent, a move that critics say removed a key safeguard.Article content
“The implication of Canada’s law is that a life with disability is automatically less worth living and that in some cases, death is preferable,” she said. Health authorities suggested Tagert move to an institution, but he refused, saying he would be too far from his young son.
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