Eligibility for "medical assistance in dying" under Canadian law seems to expand every day. The concept of assisted suicide for people with incurable diseases has grown more and more permissive, up to the point at which, akin to Belgium, people will soon be able to ask for euthanasia simply for mental health conditions.
There is even talk of permitting euthanasia for minors in certain situations, and Canadian armed forces veterans were recently ''advised'' to use assisted suicide. Of course, this decision was viewed with disgust by a lot of politicians in Canada, but the irony is that its politicians and judges themselves are responsible for this situation.
I am a Canadian. I have a neurological condition called autism, and it's sometimes challenging to do basic tasks because my brain is wired differently. Just like the vast majority of people with autism, I have issues related to my mental health. People with autism also sometimes have very limited social skills, and they do a lot of things alone.
The problem with Canada is that enacting permissible euthanasia rules and normalizing the concept creates a society in which decency for the most vulnerable people is substituted by something as radical and inhumane as euthanasia.
