The Ethics of Broadening Access to Medical Assistance and Dying to People With Mental Illnesses

The tension is between giving people access to something that they might be entitled for as a point of autonomy. But on the other side, if we expand too far or if we don't have the right safeguards in place, then people will be offered assisted dying. Eric Matheson an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and a clinical ethicist helps unpack these ethical gray areas.