Canada should 'indefinitely' abandon plans for psychiatric euthanasia, parliamentarians urge

Canada’s Criminal Code should be amended to “indefinitely exclude” people with mental illness alone from being eligible for euthanasia, a parliamentary committee has concluded.The call for the government to abandon for an unspecified period of time opening up assisted-dying to those whose sole underlying condition is a mental disorder next March marks 10 years to the day physician-assisted death became legal in Canada.A report to be tabled in Parliament by a special joint comm