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Doctor Assisted Suicide Voluntary Euthanasia
1,007 wordsLaws Against Assisted Suicide in Canada This is a very special day for me. Its the day of my release, the release from suffering, the release from the torment of my body. Those were the words of the very first Canadian to die through the process of doctor assisted- suicide, with the doctor being Jack Kevorkian. His name was Austin Bastable, and in the last few years of his life he became a crusader for the right to die with dignity. It has been only in these last few years, with the introduction...
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Supreme Court Ruled Life Sustaining Treatment
1,264 wordsEuthanasia is the act of inducing a gentle, painless death. In recent decades the term has come to mean deliberately terminating life to prevent unavoidable suffering. Passive euthanasia is discontinuing life-sustaining treatment of the ill or stopping so-called extraordinary treatment. Active euthanasia, or mercy killing, is putting to death a person who, due to disease or extreme age, can no longer lead a meaningful life; the term can also include an act of voluntary euthanasia, or suicide, fo...
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