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 The report cited an official with the prime minister’s office, which
did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The article said the bill will take a narrow approach to the issue
of physician-assisted suicide, excluding those who only experience
mental suffering. It will also not allow for so-called “mature
minors” or for advance consent – a request to end one’s life in the
future.
The Supreme Court of Canada overturned a ban on physician-assisted
suicide last year, unanimously reversing a decision it made in 1993
and putting Canada in the company of a handful of Western countries
to make it legal.
In December, a Quebec court ruled the province can implement
Canada's first law permitting physician-assisted suicide while the
federal government decides on a framework for how to handle the
issue.
(Reporting by Jeffrey Hodgson; Editing by Andrew Hay)
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