PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Assisted Suicide, Voting Age, The Slippery Slope
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Euthanasia (example doctor provide lethal dose so physician is the proximate cause. Physician assisted suicide (patient is proximate cause but doctor does provide of patient death assistance ) Illness associated with extreme suffering and the inability to end one"s own life (carter v. canada, rodriguez v. british columbia) For rodriguez supreme court did not decide that medical assistance of death violated any law but for carted vs canada supreme court did allow the assistance to death. Equality (i. e. justice) - access such as if legalized in disability. Protection of the vulnerable (harm to third-parties) - principle of non-maleficence. The royal society of canada expert panel: end-of-life decision making. Thesis: canada should create a legally permissible route to euthanasia and assisted suicide. A policy argument for the expansion of our commitment to autonomy: rooted in existing policy. A failure to implement medical assistance in dying is inconsistent with existing.
