Parents should be consulted “where appropriate,” states the document, but the will of the child would “ultimately take priority.”
On Wednesday, a parliamentary committee report, presented for discussion in the House of Commons, recommended that Canada should expand doctor-assisted suicide to include “mature minors”—teenagers as young as 12, who are ‘capable of making decisions concerning their health’—and patients with mental illnesses, currently not covered by the law. The report also called for providing the opportunity of “advance requests” for people with serious illnesses, such as dementia, that could, later on, hinder their ability to consent to euthanasia.
