Toronto woman who wants to die says federal MAID committee isn't listening (Medical Assistance in Dying)

CBC News ^ | Apr 28, 2026 | Jennifer La Grassa

[jerod]

Critics worry Canada’s assisted dying committee is failing to meet its mandate

Warning: This story references suicide.

Claire Elyse Brosseau has been waiting years for the Canadian government to let her die.

The 49-year-old has struggled for decades with a laundry list of mental diagnoses, including Bipolar 1 disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and disordered eating. All of this has made her life unbearable, she says.

“I wake up in the morning and the minute I open my eyes, I feel just a sense of … dread and panic,” she said.

It’s why the Toronto woman wants to end her life, but under current Canadian legislation she’s not eligible for medical assistance in dying (MAID) because she only suffers from mental illnesses. Next year, that’s supposed to change — though the federal government has already delayed twice...

[jerod]

Critics worry Canada’s assisted dying committee is failing to meet its mandate

Death by MAID is now one of the major causes of death in Canada... They're meeting their mandate and then some.

Good thing that the UK rejected this nonsense.

[Responsibility2nd]

She has to be crazy to want to kill herself.

I should like to welcome her to move to Texas. Leave Canada.

I promise her mental well-being will improve immediately.

[PGR88]

The final stage of state-sponsored, post-modern nihilism.

[ek_hornbeck]

To state the obvious, killing yourself isn’t so difficult, whether it’s by gunshot, jumping off a building, etc. And I believe that your life belongs to you, so a person has every right to end his or her life whenever and as he chooses for any reason. That doesn’t mean that the decision to do so needs to blessing of the state or the medical doctors should be forced to assist you in the process.

[arizonarick]

Give her some magic mushrooms for a wake-up call.

[jerod]

Good point... The very act of killing yourself is ‘crazy’. If you’re crazy, then you obviously can’t make a rational decision on what’s best for your health... Because you’re crazy. So nobody in this woman’s condition should be assisted in suicide.

With MAID now accounting for over 30,000+ deaths every year in Canada... They are obviously allowing way too many crazy people to make this ill advised decision.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If she actually wanted to die there are any number of ways she could do it.

She is just an attention whore.

[dayglored]

> Bipolar 1 disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and disordered eating.

That sounds like one of my old girlfriends.

Based on her picture, I’ll bet she cleans up pretty well, if somebody can figure out how to put a smile on her face.

[ek_hornbeck]

If she actually wanted to die there are any number of ways she could do it. She is just an attention whore.

That's right. Every single person I've known (mostly women with borderline personality disorder) who've threatened suicide and constantly talk about how they want to kill themselves remained alive and well years later. It's just a cheap ploy to win sympathy and attention.

The people I've known who have killed themselves were all either stoical or outwardly happy people who snapped after a personal tragedy that was just too much for them (such as being diagnosed with a terminal illness that would rob them of their independence).

[CodeToad]

Liberals claim we must let in anyone because the next genius to invent something could be one of them...but liberals kill millions of babies and demand suicide.

[arthurus]

So why does she have to make a fuss about it? Barbituates and alcohol will accomplish her goal peacefully in her induced sleep. Does she just want to make the government responsible for her demise?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“I wake up in the morning and the minute I open my eyes, I feel just a sense of … dread and panic,” she said.

Well, that certainly makes her unique among humankind.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

To state the obvious, killing yourself isn’t so difficult, whether it’s by gunshot, jumping off a building, etc.

Doing it cleanly and painlessly, and in a way that will not traumatize both loved ones and innocent people who don't even know the victim is another matter altogether. I support private institutions which enable suicide - all we own at the end of the day is our own lives and each of us should have the right to end our life painlessly if we so choose. But state-run institutions will always have an incentive to encourage suicide and should not be allowed.

[USAF1985]

Exactly. It is no one’s business but our own how we want to live our life, or how we want to exit it. Everybody’s circumstances are different.

[Prospero]

Does she just want to make the government responsible for her demise?

Quite right. She wants and expects "sanction," confusing her government with 'society,' as well as Almighty God.

She and the wretched CBC demand absolution.

[Sam Gamgee]

That is what I was musing about. She has other options if the state won’t kill her.

[Chewbarkah]

The fact that “she’s been waiting for years” for someone else to do the job suggests she doesn’t really want to die, but is afraid to let go of whatever torments her and live. If truly bipolar, she needs the right meds, then a long walk in the woods.

[JimRed]

1/8 teaspoon of fentanyl and POOF!

[EvelynMcHale]

This is just so sad.

[Mr. Blond]

I was just about to post that. No harm in trying psychedelic therapy as a last ditch.