Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sue Rodriguez, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2610F/G
• Professor: Ken Kirkwood

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Legal background: supreme court comes out with the carter decision, they took the rodriguez case and said the same things, but weren"t compelled with the arguments they were worried about before. 2015 unanimous decision stating canadian adults that are mentally competent and suffering intolerably and enduringly have the right to a physician"s help in dying : conceptual nightmares euthanasia/assisted suicide are very complicated concepts. Passive euthanasia: active roughly, involves killing a patient. Locked-in syndrome full consciousness, but extreme paralysis: body is completely non-responsive, but mentality still works. These levels of state are people who want to be involved in assisted suicide: where along this continuum do you say where a person is unable to express their desire for. The dde is commonly, if not explicitly, appealed to in practice: therefore, voluntary active euthanasia & non-voluntary active euthanasia occur under this doctrine. If you use the medical system, it will change the way people look at the medical system.