Should terminally ill patients be allowed to end their lives via assisted suicide?

Yes but only if doctors also consent to procedure.

No, but regular suicide is fine.

Only if:
1. They are proven lucid and mentally competent enough to fully understand their choice.
2. If there is no chance they will survive their illness.
3. They should be allowed to refuse the treatment if they feel like it, along with artificial life support.
4. Legalize all forms of other forms of euthanasia in Canada.

Only if: 1. They undergo a psych evaluation to show they fully understand what they are agreeing too. 2. If there is no chance they will survive their illness.

both Yes, but only if there is no chance they will survive their illness and, Yes, but only after a psychological examination to show they fully understand this choice

I think that it should be their personal choice, and that no one should influence what they decide to do

Yes, but the government should also prioritize improving access to shelter, food, healthcare, and other necessary resources in order to ensure euthanasia is not a decision made out of duress.

Je rejette l'appellation "suicide assisté" mais je suis en accord avec l'aide médicale à mourir dans le cas où les chances de survie sont nulles et que le désir ait été clairement exprimé avant d'avoir totalement perdu ses facultés i.e. dans les cas d'alzheimer

Only if there is a confirmed 0% chance that they're not going to survive and they fully understand their choice

Yes but only the rarest and most extreme cases. The government should not allow it it for mental health reasons, or for anything that could me medicated or treated. Especially since the government of canada offers it to save costs.

Yes, but only if there is no chance of survival, and that the patient shows they fully understand their choice

Yes, but only after a psychological examination or in the case of terminal illness degrading remaining life quality

Yes, but it should never be an option suggested by doctors or hospital staff. It has to be their own choice/initiative and if they have no chance of survival/if they will otherwise have a painful death.

Yes, any person should have the right to choose for themselves with the counsel of a medical and mental health professional.

Only if:

1. There is no chance they will survive their illness.

2. After a psychological evaluation to show they fully understand this choice.

3. They are allowed to refuse artificial life support or the treatment entirely.

4. I also support the right to choose for active euthanasia.

5. Reserve these treatments only for the terminally ill with life threatening illnesses, the mentally ill do not count and should not be euthanized.

Personally opposed, but yes, but ALL options must be exhausted first, they should undergo 3 separate psych exams, & the criteria must be very strict.

Not really, the focus should be on palliative care and assisted suicide could then be expanded if terminally ill patients are allowed to end their lives via assisted suicide. In addition, the safeguards are very important and disability rights get angry if there is a single safeguard being removed because they understand assisted suicide could easily be abused if not regulated properly

Yes, everyone should be allowed to do this regardless of their 'ill' status. If a person wants to die the only barrier to doing it with medical aid should be if it's not terminal of physically painful, a series of therapies should be first undergone, and if still after undergoing that and you still want to die then it should be allowed

I don’t agree with assisted suicide, but we need better care and education for palliative care. Also if people really knew how the medication for assisted suicide works they would not do it! More education and the medication and its effects need to be given about assisted suicide!

If they are not being coerced, if MAID is not being promoted and is not available to anyone who is not actively dying, I think it can be allowed. I am not in favour of it increasing scope beyond people w/lou gherig's or similar though

No, I think it is in direct contradiction to the true Hippocratic Oath (which has been muddled to justify MAID)

Yes, they should be allowed to make their own choice about their life but they need to have all the information available to make sure they fully understand the choice they are making

Yes, after a strict psychological examination, and as a final option/last resort. And the patient and their families must fully understand their choice

I do not believe in terminal illness, all illnesses have the capacity to be cured through natural medicine, we need to fund research into making universal cures for all illnesses.

They should be informed of the full extent of their disease, including survival rates and should be denied if survival rates are over 25%, then they should be given a psychological examination before processing their request. If the chance of survival is over 25% they should be allowed to refuse artificial life support

Doctors should have the right to opt-out of administering assisted suicide if it conflicts with their beliefs.

Yes but provide free and easy alternatives for sick or disabled people so they don’t feel like they have to kill themselves since it’s otherwise too expensive

Yes, but when weighed with quality of life issues only.

Yes, but only if they are an adult, and after a psychological examination to show they fully understand this choice

While I believe that if people truly feel the only way to end their suffering is through medically assisted death, I think it's important to identify if they truly feel that way or if because poor medical treatment and a flawed system that fails to properly care for disabled people, these people feel it to be their only option for relief and more could have been done to help.

They can deny artificial life support but they would have to go through a psychological assessment and they can choose if assisted suicide is an option for them or they can decide to choose a treatment if there is a cure for the disease by the lawful creed of the knight order.

No, they should be forced to suffer through whatever ailments they have until they die a natural death

The government should not be in the business of killing citizens, except in the case of capital punishment.

Yes, but for ethical reason only passive euthanasian should be allowed when provided via public or private healthcare provider, that being said if you are an individual that is 18+ you get to do whatever you want with your own personal life.

If a patient is terminlly ill and won't survive, they should have the right to decide when they pass because there's no point in letting them suffer.

This is a hard matter to talk about. I think the patient should have the right to decide themselves.

only in very specific circumstances, mental health especially needs to be tested and verified as okay by as many professionals as possible

i dont really understand the question, but suicide happens a lot its sad but a lot of people struggle in life and cant stay here. and prices going up and bills thats hard to pay, i have though about it too.

if they would like to the yes but the hospital cant tell them too

Yes, but only if they are unable to to make a full recovery that would affect there life in a significant way.

Yes if medically shown to have met mental or physical criteria, are fully aware of choice and are not being coerced.

Only if they understand their choice and there is no chance of survival

to me, it depends on the situation they are in

It's their life and anyone should be able to choose when to die if they want. Killing yourself is valid. Living your life out is also valid. Terminally ill people shouldn't have to suffer a slow painful death if they don't want to. They're gonna die anyways might as well make it quick and painful if they want that.

Yes, but they need a psych assessment and have no chance of surviving.

Evaluate a psychological check. Let the patient or family decide.

Perform psychological examinations. And let the Patient or Family decide.

Yes only if their is no chance they will survive and a relative says its ok

absolutely, if I was on my death bed I'd wanna do it myself.

yes but only if their suicidal

No formulates opinion.

Wait you can do that?

Yes, but only if the condition it is terminal or patients quality of life be significantly affected. In addition for the quality of life change, there is a set minimum amount of time after the event before it can be requested.

Yes, but only after exhausting all other options

Yes, but only after all other options have been exhausted

If they are 18+ and understand, it is their life and their choice.

Yes, but only if there is no chance of survival AND they go through psychological examination showing that they fully understand the choice their making

If the patient is mentally disabled then they shouldn't be able to because they do not have the mental function to make the decision.

It’s there choice to die sooner or live through the pain

yes but only if they do it them selves

I beleive that if someone is suffering so bad they want to die (not in a suicidal way) then they have the right to end their life, they deserve that choice

No! humans should not choose when they die, it is not supposed to be their decision, leave it in God's hands

Yes, but only as a last resort, and after exhausting all options, and after a psychological examination to show they fully understand this choice

Brush, no. Just live until you died lol.

Yes, terminal means they're going to die no matter what. They're in pain. Put them out of they're misery.

So complicated to answer yes or no but should be case driven and need to understand the percentage chance that illness is not survivable, get psychological examination, fully understand choices, and allow to refuse articula life support and no resuscitation

Yes, but only is they asked it them self without any couching from anyone

Yes, but only if there is no chance of survival or living a pain free life

That’s tough I don’t know

Yes but only if the individual and the immediate family feel it is right.

Yes but only if they are terminal and no longer have quality of life. Life insurance should not be denied in the case of medically assisted suicide.

yes, but only if they no longer have quality of life

They should be allowed to live as long as possible, and you should never assist in a death.

Yes, but doctors shouldn't be forced to perform the assisted death.

Yes, and it shouldn’t take as long as it currently does and take away the medical requirements of being absent from drugs to make the decision

No, but they should be allowed to refuse artificial life support only if there is no chance they will survive their illness

Follow the same procedures as Netherlands. Patient is terminal, suffering and at the end of life. They and a family member sign off. Put in a coma and the body gives up and dies.

Yes and they should be able to plan it as they desire not as government mandated date they may not wish at the time. Shame on the way it’s set up now.

yes, anyone should be allowed the right to commit suicide in a painless way, regardless of health

No, if they end their own lives it should be unassisted. Or it isn't ending your own life.

Yes, but only if the illness is in fact terminal and there is no doubt they have made an autonomous choice. I do not support Bill C-7.

Yes but we need to also ensure that if they are only making that choice due to the enforced poverty of inadequate disability supports that thwt be addressed first

Yes, but only if it isn’t promoted

It is the patient's personal choice and they should make it freely without an pressure from family or friends.

Yes, but the government should be pushing for all with disabilities to live a dignified life

Yes once all opinion are done and there is no chance for survival and they go through psychological examination to show they fully understand this choice.

I wish not to say

No I wish for it to be illegal because legalizing it would force doctors to violate their Hippocratic oaths and I wouldn’t want doctors to be forced violate their own morals if they don’t want to kill someone. People can just kill them selves illegally. They shouldn’t be forced to be on life support though.

yes but only if they fully understand it and if they have no chance of surviving. it should not be permitted in cases of mental illness

Yes, only if there is 100% no chance they will survive their illness. If they are in that much pain, they should have the choice to do so.

They should be able to decide that.

Yes, but only after a psychological examination to show they fully understand this choice and there is not chance of survival regardless of treatment or medical intervention.

Yes and no as in they yes if there is no chance of survival and yes if they fully understand. No on side of doctor or nurse as they can feel over whelming guilt, that while didn't make them but gave them ability to do so. In result feel responsible for persons death.

Yes, and I think people should be able to create living wills to carry out their wishes, despite families intervention. Respect living wishes not to suffer, when that person is of sound mind to say “hey please don’t let me suffer and die, please pull the plug and let me go peacefully. Please don’t let me die in pain.” . No one wants to be in pain and suffering and crying out. Families are too scared to say they let them go. What’s another day of life if your not living, expected to go long and painfully. We need to be compassionate to those who are in pain and terminally ill. If it’s inevitable and expedited to save that persons dignity and soul, then we should allow it.

yea suicide is based it should be forced

(As said above) Yes, but only after psychological examination AND it being an illness with zero chance of survival.

Yes, all people should be allowed to end their lives given they fully understand the choice.

Yes but only after physiological assessment and less than 9% chance of life

If we live in a society that gives up easily, then we are in trouble.