Anti-Euthanasia Coalition Calls for Mental Illness Support, Halt to MAID Expansion

Anti-Euthanasia Coalition Calls for Mental Illness Support, Halt to MAID Expansion
Conservative MP Ed Fast speaks during a news conference on his private member's bill on medical assistance in dying, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, March 6, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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If medical assistance in death (MAID) had been available to Lia Milousis when she was suffering from depression in high school, she would not be alive today, the motivational speaker says.

“I reached a point in my life where, very unexpectedly, I found that life became very lacklustre,” she said during a Feb. 27 press conference calling on the Senate to pass Bill C-62 to block the extension of MAID to people suffering solely from mental illness.