Re:Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws
by jmcgough on Saturday August 20, 2022 @04:57AM
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Canada has a 90-day assessment/waiting period for those whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable. They won't euthanize you unless you seem capable of making the decision and have thought through it for an extended length of time. It's not an impulsive thing.
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Re:Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws
by pavlov5867 on Saturday August 20, 2022 @08:05AM
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And yet, "Within a month, Nichols submitted a request to be euthanized and he was killed" which is pretty quick considering median waiting time of 25.6 weeks between referral from a general practitioner and receipt of treatment[1]
[1]https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa...