Against assisted suicide
A few days ago the Canadian House of Commons rejected an assisted suicide bill. The proposed legislation would allow doctors to help terminally ill patients or people in unrelenting pain to end their lives. Currently,…
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The Right to Die
All law students come across the Sue Rodriguez case at some point, and the policy reason for forbidding assisted suicide — that it will be abused by caregivers. My Constitutional Law professor said it was…
The Values and Ethics of Euthanasia
Second post in a series on the First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference. The euthanasia panel started off with Bob Parke, an ethicist with Humber River Regional Hospital. The discussion over euthanasia is often a…