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Choosing to die will never a "nice" death If your country, society, economy, life quality, health, is not good that you choose to die, that is obviously a sign

• ttul 4y ago
  I beg to differ. Even in a country like Canada where world-class medicine is available to everyone for free, it's quite possible to suffer a great deal before you eventually die from a terminal illness. Canada's constitution guarantees everyone the "right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice." By criminalizing the act of helping a terminally ill person to die, we are forcing that person to choose between "a life of severe and intolerable suffering," or forcing her to "take her own life prematurely, often by violent or dangerous means." The court ruled that forcing this choice deprived Canadians of their right to "life, liberty and security of the person." The Supreme Court of Canada's judgement is worth reading [1]: "It is a crime in Canada to assist another person in ending her own life. As a result, people who are grievously and irremediably ill cannot seek a physician’s assistance in dying and may be condemned to a life of severe and intolerable suffering. A person facing this prospect has two options: she can take her own life prematurely, often by violent or dangerous means, or she can suffer until she dies from natural causes. The choice is cruel." [1] https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2015/2015scc5/2015scc5.html https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2015/2015scc5/2015scc5....
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