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​Lisa Pauli, 47, who says she wants to apply for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) when she is eligible because of her severe anorexia, looks on, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada June 9, 2023.
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Canada: A great place to die?

Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) regime is garnering criticism, as its rapid growth threatens to make the country the world capital of assisted suicide - if it’s not already.

​A man is seen using the OpenAI ChatGPT artificial intelligence chat website in this illustration photo on 18 July, 2023.
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Is AI responsible for a teen’s suicide?

Moments before Sewell Setzer III took his own life in February 2024, he was messaging with an AI chatbot. Setzer, a 14-year-old boy from Florida, had struck up an intimate and troubling relationship — if you can call it that — with an artificial intelligence application styled to simulate the personality of “Game of Thrones” character Daenerys Targaryen.

FILE PHOTO: Canada's Minister of Health Mark Holland rises to table a report in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada September 18, 2023.
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Euthanasia for mentally ill off the table in Canada – for now

In most US states, medically assisted suicide remains illegal, with only 11 jurisdictions offering legal medical aid in dying for the terminally ill.