The Senate wrapped up debates on the bill to expand access to medical assistance in dying (MAiD) with a vote, sending it back to the House of Commons for a final review later this week. On Wednesday, senators voted 66-19, with 3 abstentions, passing Bill C-7, which would expand access to medical assistance in dying to individuals experiencing intolerable suffering and are not close to a foreseeable natural death. Bill C-7 intends to bring the federal law into compliance with a 2019 Quebec Superior Court ruling that declared the “reasonable foreseeability of natural death” to MAiD eligibility unconstitutional. Senators approved five amendments to the bill, two of which have expanded access to medical assisted dying even further than the government had first proposed. One amendment would impose an 18-month time limit on the legislation’s proposed ban on assisted dying for people suffering solely from mental illnesses. Another would allow people who …