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Marie Nicolini

Senior Researcher/Visiting Researcher, KU Leuven/Georgetown University

Marie Nicolini is a psychiatrist and ethicist. She is senior researcher at KU Leuven in Belgium, and visiting researcher at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She has testified to the Parliament of Canada as an expert witness on the issue of assisted death for mental disorders.

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Written by Marie Nicolini

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Death and dying

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Should assisted death be available for intractable mental illness?

As a psychiatrist I am extremely wary of even the most careful provisions of assisted dying for people with mental illness

by Marie Nicolini