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Nearly 80 doctors have told Alberta Health Services they’re willing to perform physician-assisted death, says one of the doctors given the task of deciding how to put legal changes into practice.

Alberta doctors will also be able to prescribe a deadly cocktail that allows patients to drink a slurry on their own, Dr. James Silvius, medical director of community, seniors, addiction and mental health for Alberta Health Services told doctors Saturday.

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“We need to start thinking about this in terms of normalizing it (because) this is where we are going,” Silvius told attendees at an Alberta Medical Association special session on the topic.

Regulators have been preparing for the impending legalization of physician-assisted dying in Canada come June 6. Last year, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously ruled a consenting and competent adult with an intolerable “grievous and irremediable medical condition” should have the right to end his or her life with a doctor’s help. The court gave the government a year to amend laws and regulations, then granted a four-month extension in February.