The Supreme Court of Canada has totally struck down the
ban on providing a doctor-assisted death to mentally competent but suffering
and “irremediable” patients.
Canada's Supreme Court has ruled that doctors may help
patients who have severe and incurable medical conditions to die, overturning a
1993 ban.
The historic, groundbreaking decision from the country’s top court sweeps away the existing law and gives Parliament a year to draft new legislation that recognizes the right of clearly consenting adults who are enduring intolerable suffering physical or mental to seek medical help ending their lives. Read more…….
