Once you let the state kill the depressed it’s game over for the vulnerable. Normalize this and watch Canada start clearing hospital beds with body bags next.
Toronto woman fights court for MAID over bipolar and PTSD
“A Canadian woman who has been fighting for medical assistance in dying (MAID) to be an option for people with mental disorders is now asking the courts to exempt her from current laws so that a doctor can end her life.
For decades, Claire Elyse Brosseau says she has struggled with her mental health, including diagnoses of bipolar 1 disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and disordered eating. Despite wanting the option to die through MAID, Brosseau isn’t eligible under Canada’s MAID legislation because her only underlying conditions are mental illnesses.
In recent years, Brosseau has been part of a legal fight with advocacy organization Dying with Dignity Canada to challenge the federal MAID exclusion for people living with mental disorders.
Outside of Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice in Toronto on Monday, Brosseau, alongside her lawyer, said she has filed an urgent exemption because she has lost hope in the fight and is in a state of “unrelenting suffering.”
“I should not have to do this,” said Brosseau, who is 49 years old and lives in Toronto.
“The government should do the right thing and lift the exclusion that denies me the relief to my suffering that I am desperate for.”
Brosseau has previously told CBC News that from the moment she wakes up, she feels panic and dread. She said she rarely goes outdoors or speaks to anyone. Over the last 30 years, Brosseau said she’s tried multiple treatment options, with little to no relief. ”