canmark
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Jul 19, 2013
- Messages
- 111
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 07/2013
- Country
- CA
- State
- Ontario
- City
- Toronto
Last fall, the CBC did a very interesting series on people making end-of-life decisions. It was called Last Right.
Recently, this was in the news in Canada: Lawyers want Supreme Court to view man’s dying plea for assisted suicide law
Assisted suicide is illegal in Canada but public opinion is shifting. Baby boomers are aging and they are bringing their activism to the subject, intent on pushing the debate forward.
In our series 'Last Right,' Duncan McCue follows Canadians, many of them terminally ill, who have decided to end their lives and want to control the way they die.
Click through this interactive to hear their stories, along with other voices in the debate. There are also behind the scenes details from Duncan and viewer responses to the series.
Recently, this was in the news in Canada: Lawyers want Supreme Court to view man’s dying plea for assisted suicide law
The friend of a Toronto lawyer who went to Switzerland to end his life says a group of lawyers is looking at whether his dying plea for legalized assisted suicide could be part of an upcoming Supreme Court hearing on the subject.
In an open letter and video, Edward Hung, 62, explained why he opted to die with help rather than continue living with ALS — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — an incurable and increasingly debilitating condition also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.