--- title: Canada Introduces Assisted Death Bill description: Canada introduced an assisted death bill on Thursday, aiming to ease end-of-life treatment for terminally ill patients canonical: https://time.com/4295691/canada-assisted-death-bill/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-15T12:46:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:55:51.535Z article:section: World og:title: Canada Introduces Assisted Death Bill og:description: The bill will exclude foreigners in an effort to prevent "suicide tourism" og:url: https://time.com/4295691/canada-assisted-death-bill/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd35d83b26c414ca1/69888f492dce0138de9e8ab6/gettyimages-5186022021.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4928 og:image:height: 2772 og:image:alt: US-NUCLEAR-CANADA-BRITAIN og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Canada Introduces Assisted Death Bill twitter:description: The bill will exclude foreigners in an effort to prevent "suicide tourism" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd35d83b26c414ca1/69888f492dce0138de9e8ab6/gettyimages-5186022021.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Canada Introduces Assisted Death Bill, Which Will Exclude U.S. Citizens > Sponsored content. 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Daniel Swangard, an anesthesiologist, wants the option to end his life on his own terms_  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Apr 15, 2016 12:46 PM UTC  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confers with British Prime Minister David Cameron (out of frame) during the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC, April 1. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confers with British Prime Minister David Cameron (out of frame) during the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, DC, April 1. Jim Watson—AFP/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Apr 15, 2016 12:46 PM UTC Canada [introduced an assisted death bill](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/14/canadians-assisted-suicide-law/83018864/) on Thursday, aiming to ease end-of-life treatment for terminally ill patients while preventing “suicide tourism” to the country. The bill excludes people with psychiatric problems and requires that patients be eligible for Canada’s national health care, an effort to stop foreigners from traveling to Canada to end their lives, [_USA Today_ reported](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/04/14/canadians-assisted-suicide-law/83018864/). The law also requires a minimum age of 18 and a 15-day reflection period. “This is a historic day for our country,” Health Minister Jane Philpott said, _USA Today_ reported. “It’s an enormous responsibility to address the needs and suffering of Canadians as they reach the end of life.” The bill will now go to Parliament. If approved, Canada would join countries including Germany, Japan and Colombia in allowing assisted deaths, a controversial topic in Canada as well as the U.S. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has voiced his support for the bill. “This is a difficult & deeply personal issue, and our government has carefully studied how best to support those in great suffering,” he posted on Twitter. ## Transcript [ SOUND ] You feel held when you're in the water. The water for me is a place where I use my body in a way that's good [ NOISE ] I started having these thoughts. [ NOISE ] Like, wow. There's going to be a day when I am not here. THat thought of non- existence, that thought of not being conscious and awake. That's just, I think fundamentally Not something we wanna think about. [ SOUND ] I am a practicing anesthesiologist in San Fransisco. I've gone on this Paleo crazy .- Low- carb diet, and I used to joke with my friends that if I could just get David Beckham's abs I would be really pretty happy about it. It'd been six years since I'd seen my doctor. He examined me, and when he was palpating my abdomen he felt this mass. And I know this sounds totally stupid, but I was like, well maybe it's my abs. So it turned out to be this thing called neuroendocrine tumor. It's pretty rare. People have heard of it because Steve Jobs that's what Steve Jobs died of. They found the primary mass in my pancreas. So that pancreas came out and then my spleen came out. I guess we're just not sure of what's going on in the liver at this point so. Could there be cancer in my body still? Certainly. Probably. I've thought a lot about what's my exit going to be like if that disease comes up being the cause of my death. What I don't want is I don't want a frenzied A ride in the ambulance to the hospital feeling pain and feeling sick and knowing that this is the beginning of the end. [ MUSIC ] Brittany Maynard took her own life using medicine legally prescribed to her by a doctor. She had terminal brain cancer and her goal was to begin a national conversation About how we handle the end of life and the conversation she started indeed goes on. You know I think I've always been passionate about the dying process and Britney's story was just really soft spot. As an anesthesiologist, I've watched death. I've watched people die and it can be a painful process. For me that's what would be important to be able to have the choice and have it be very mindful and have there be almost a sacredness to it that. That we often miss. 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