Eligibility

Foreseeable Death Eligibility Criteria 

All criteria must be met to be eligible for medical assistance in dying in Saskatchewan. 

• Be at least 18 years of age and capable of making decisions about your health. 
• Be eligible for Saskatchewan health services.
• Make a voluntary written request, which can be withdrawn at any time.
• Have a grievous and irremediable medical condition (severe or serious illness with the inability to cure); and
  • Are in an advanced state of irreversible decline that cannot be reversed; and
  • Experiencing intolerable suffering from your illness, disease, disability or state of decline; and
  • Their natural death has become reasonably foreseeable taking into account all of your medical circumstances.
• The patient has been informed of means that are available to relieve their suffering, including palliative care.  

Non - Foreseeable Death Eligibility Criteria 

All criteria must be met to be eligible for medical assistance in dying in Saskatchewan. 

• Be at least 18 years of age and capable of making decisions about your health. 
• Be eligible for Saskatchewan health services.
• Make a voluntary written request, which can be withdrawn at any time.
• Have a grievous and irremediable incurable medical condition (severe or serious illness with the inability to cure); and
  • Are in an advanced state of irreversible decline that cannot be reversed; and
  • Experiencing intolerable suffering from your illness, disease, disability or state of decline.
• The patient must be informed of available counselling services, mental health and disability support service, community services and palliative care, as appropriate to the individual’s situation, and be offered consultation with professionals who provide those services.  
• The patient and practitioners have determined that reasonable and available means of alleviating the patient’s suffering had been discussed and seriously considered before MAID could be provided.

For the purposes of MAID eligibility, a mental illness on its own, is not a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability.