Denying Assisted Dying Where Death is Not ‘Reasonably Foreseeable’: Intolerable Overgeneralization in Canadian End-of-Life Law
The recent change in Canadian law to allow access to medical assistance in dying restricts eligibility, among its other criteria, to those for whom “natural death has become reasonably foreseeable.” A recent review of certain aspects of the law examined the evidence pertaining to extending access t...
Main Author: | Kevin Reel |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Programmes de bioéthique, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal
2018-12-01
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Series: | Canadian Journal of Bioethics |
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Online Access: | https://cjb-rcb.ca/index.php/cjb-rcb/article/view/69 |
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