# Canada proposes ending plans to allow assisted dying for mental illness

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/female-paramedic-with-ptsd-angry-as-canada-moves-to-ban-people-with-mental-illness-from-euthanasia/
- Published: 2026-10-28T20:36:18+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-28T20:47:17+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16245557/Female-paramedic-PTSD-angry-Canada-banned-people-mental-illness-euthanasia.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: Americas, Asia, World

## Key points

- Canada proposes permanently excluding mental illness alone from MAID.
- The bill still needs to pass before becoming law.
- Lisa Marr says the move overlooks people who have exhausted treatment.

## Summary

Canada’s Justice Minister, Sean Fraser, has introduced legislation to abandon plans to extend medical assistance in dying (MAID) to people whose only underlying condition is a mental illness. The proposal, which still needs to pass before becoming law, has renewed debate over whether psychiatric conditions can be judged incurable and whether doctors can reliably assess recovery prospects.

Lisa Marr, a retired Nova Scotia paramedic, says the decision disregards people who have lived with severe, treatment-resistant mental illness for decades. She describes having complex PTSD, depression, bipolar II disorder and anxiety, and says she has consulted more than 20 psychiatrists and attended weekly psychology appointments for ten years. Fraser cited disagreement among medical professionals and concern that people unable to access psychiatric care might seek assisted death; experts quoted in the article differ on whether lasting recovery can be ruled out.

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