MAiD and Mental Illness: Canada's Unfinished Debate
Psychology Today | 11.05.2026 20:34
In recent years, Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) law has changed rapidly in its application. When Bill C-14 came into force in 2016, MAiD was limited to persons with grave and irremediable medical conditions whose natural death was “reasonably foreseeable.” In practice, the law often meant that persons whose suffering was only from psychiatric disease were excluded.
