Overview
- Brosseau, 48, says decades of severe, treatment‑resistant mental illness led her to seek assisted death after trying numerous medications, multiple therapies and electroconvulsive therapy.
- She decided in 2021 to apply to Canada’s MAiD program, but the mental‑health exclusion has been delayed twice and is now not expected to be lifted until 2027.
- She has joined a Dying With Dignity Canada legal action alleging the exclusion is discriminatory, with filings in Ontario Superior Court that also include former war correspondent John Scully, who has PTSD.
- Her treating psychiatrists are publicly divided, with Dr. Gail Robinson prepared to support her choice and Dr. Mark Fefergrad arguing she can get well and that MAiD is not her best option.
- Brosseau has told loved ones of her intentions and held farewell dinners, focusing wider attention on how eligibility and safeguards should apply to psychiatric illnesses under MAiD.