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Physician Assisted Suicide

'There is Some Suffering Only Death Can End'

Wanda Morris | Posted 05.04.2013 | Canada
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Wanda Morris

Greg Robinson doesn't want to die. But Greg has HIV/AIDS. He lives with the knowledge that the time will come when his life becomes an endless struggle with pain, nausea, vomiting, breathlessness and extreme fatigue. When that time comes, Greg wants the right to choose a medically-assisted death.

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Don't Speak Legalese? Here's What the Assisted Suicide Ruling Really Means

Ron Skolrood | Posted 08.18.2012 | Canada Politics
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Ron Skolrood

British Columbia Supreme Court Judge, Madam Justice Lynn Smith has released her reasons for judgment in the ground-breaking physician-assisted suicide case. In her view, a complete ban on physician-assisted suicide was a disproportionate response and a more appropriate response would be to maintain an almost-absolute prohibition but with a stringently limited and carefully monitored system of exceptions.

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