Supreme Court now permits some Canadians to approach death on their own terms: who should those Canadians be?

Where natural death is not reasonably foreseeable, Bill C-14 asserts that the likelihood of inducement is too high, the risks of social harm too great. Our current legal framework expresses no such hesitation.

The Supreme Court of Canada. Our elected Parliamentarians chose the more cautious—some would say balanced—route, passing Bill C-14 on third reading. Time will tell whether our chamber of sober second thought, the Canadian Senate, will reach a similar conclusion.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CATHERINE FRAZEE

June 6, 2016

KINGS COUNTY, N.S.—For some of us, the book of life will close abruptly. A sudden pop or crunch or snap, and we’ll be gone. Perhaps some body part or system will betray us, utterly and fatally, in an otherwise banal moment of the day or night. Or perhaps some force of nature or violent strike wi...

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