Canada mulling expanding ‘assisted dying’ law to mental illness
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Jacques Poissant's suffering stopped the day he asked his daughter if it would be "cowardly to ask to be helped to die". The retired Canadian insurance adviser was 93, and "was wasting away" after a long battle with prostate cancer. "He no longer had any zest for life," Josee Poissant told AFP. Last year her mother made the same choice at 96 when she realised she...