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I Don't Want Your Suicide On MY Conscience

Diane Weber Bederman | Posted 06.14.2013 | Canada
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Diane Weber Bederman

There is a marked difference between making it possible to take one's own life and actively participating in it. Because we abhor suicide we have all kinds of programmes established to reach out to those who wish to take their own life. There is a cognitive dissonance at play when we now ask our own government, through legislation, to participate in ending life. And then to label it "health care" is Orwellian.

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WATCH: Canadian Leaves Wrenching Final Message

CBC | Posted 04.26.2013 | Canada Politics
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Susan Griffiths, the Winnipeg woman who went to Switzerland to take advantage of the country's assisted-suicide law, has died. She was de...

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Assisted Suicide Ban Like Torture: Lawyer

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.20.2013 | Canada British Columbia
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VANCOUVER - Forcing sick patients to suffer through painful, agonizing deaths without the ability to ask a doctor to help them end their lives is akin...

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Divisive Debate Rages, 20 Years Later

CBC | Posted 05.09.2013 | Canada Politics
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The federal government will argue in front of the B.C. Court of Appeal later this month that the ban on assisted suicide should remain in place. ...

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Could Assisted Suicide Come To Quebec?

CP | Jocelyne Richer, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.17.2013 | Canada Politics
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QUEBEC - The Quebec government says it believes it has found a way of not running afoul of Ottawa after a legal panel recommended that a terminally il...

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PAY UP

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 01.02.2013 | Canada British Columbia
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VANCOUVER - The federal and provincial governments have been ordered to pay about $1 million in legal costs to the B.C. lawyers who won a constitution...

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Assisted Suicide Too Risky: Feds

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.25.2012 | Canada British Columbia
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VANCOUVER - Legalizing doctor-assisted suicide would demean the value of life and could lead vulnerable people to take drastic steps in "moments of we...

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Woman At Centre Of Right-To-Die Ruling Still Has Some Living To Do

CBC | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 08.18.2012 | Canada Politics
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The terminally ill B.C. woman who was granted the right to a physician-assisted suicide by a B.C. judge last Friday says she was overwhelm...

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What Are Canada's Suicide Laws?

The Huffington Post Canada | Michael Bolen | Posted 06.15.2012 | Canada Politics
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The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled that Canada's law banning doctor-assisted suicide is unconstitutional. In light of the game changing ruling, Huff...

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Allow Doctor-Assisted Suicide, Panel Urges

CP | Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.22.2012 | Canada
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A landmark report in Quebec recommends that doctors be allowed in exceptional circumstances to help the terminally ill die if that is what the patient...

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