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		</div><p>Canada has introduced a new assisted suicide law that will only apply to Canadians and residents.</p>
<p>Visitors will be excluded under the proposed law announced on Thursday, precluding the prospect of suicide tourism.</p>
<p>Canadian government officials said the person would have to be eligible for health services in Canada to be able to take advantage of the law.</p>
<p>The law provides a choice &#8220;for adults who are suffering intolerably and for whom death is reasonably foreseeable&#8221;.</p>
<p>It says the person must be mentally competent, 18 or older, have a serious and incurable disease, illness or disability and be in an advanced state of irreversible decline in capability.</p>
<p>Last year, Canada&#8217;s Supreme Court struck down laws that bar doctors from helping someone die, but put the ruling on hold while the government came up with a new law.</p>
<p>The proposed law still requires approval in parliament, but is expected to pass as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau&#8217;s Liberal government controls the majority of seats.</p>
<p>Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, Germany, Albania, Colombia, Japan and the US states of Washington, Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico and Montana.</p>
<p>California lawmakers also passed legislation, expected to take effect later this year, where proof of California residency is required.</p>
<p>Germany&#8217;s law applies to Germans and foreigners alike. Switzerland&#8217;s law is valid for everyone in Switzerland, and people who take part in assisted suicides are not required to be residents or citizens, according to Justice Ministry spokesman Bernardo Stadelmann.</p>
<p>The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg allow doctors, under strict conditions, to euthanise patients whose medical conditions have been judged hopeless and who are in great pain.</p>
<p>Canada&#8217;s Supreme Court declared last year that outlawing that option deprives dying people of their dignity and autonomy.</p>
<p>It had been illegal in Canada to counsel, aid or abet a suicide, an offence carrying a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.</p>
<p>Quebec already passed legislation last year after the court&#8217;s decision. And since the top court ruling, Canadian judges elsewhere have given individual patients permission for assisted deaths.</p>
<p>To get a doctor&#8217;s help under the law, a written request is required, either from the patient or a designated person if the patient is incapable, and the request would need to be signed by two independent witnesses.</p>
<p>Two independent doctors or authorised nurse practitioners would have to evaluate it and there would be a mandatory 15-day waiting period unless death or loss of capacity to consent was imminent.</p>
<p>Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said the law will ensure that dying patients who are suffering unbearable pain have the choice of a peaceful death and that the vulnerable are protected.</p>
<p>&#8220;This will have a positive, significant impact on the lives of Canadians,&#8221; Mr Trudeau said. &#8220;It is important to respect the choices made by Canadians.&#8221;</p>
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