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Trisha Kae Andrada

Canadian Star Claire Brosseau Says She Can't Beat Mental Illness and Is Seeking Medically Assisted Suicide

Claire Brosseau (Credit: Screenshot From YouTube / TOP BOX TV)

Canadian comedian and writer Claire Brosseau has become a central figure in a growing national debate over whether people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness should be allowed access to medically assisted death.

At 48, Brosseau expresses that years of treatment have not alleviated her pain, leading her to participate in a constitutional challenge against the federal government's ongoing exclusion of psychiatric patients from Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID).

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