Right to Die Case in UK Goes to Britain’s Highest Court
December 16, 2013 No Comments
From the BBC re the Right to Die Case in UK Campaigners for the right to die are to have their arguments heard by the Supreme
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Euthanasia For Terminally Ill Children Proposed In Belgium
November 28, 2013 No Comments
Euthanasia For Terminally Ill Children Proposed In Belgium. Further to my blog of a few days ago, Belgium is once again in the news as
Belgium’s Liberal But Controversial Euthanasia Laws
November 25, 2013 No Comments
Euthanasia Laws “Death by Doctor” as euthanasia is often known, is strictly illegal in Canada. Belgium however has in recent years enacted perhaps the world’s
Dirty Family Secrets
November 24, 2013 No Comments
At age 37, actor Jack Nicholson learned that the person he had known as his life as his sister was actually his mother, and
Doctors Cannot End Life Support Without Consent- SCC
October 18, 2013 No Comments
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that doctors cannot unilaterally choose to end life support services for Hassan Rasouli, an Ontario man who has
Appeal Court Strikes Down “Death With Dignity” Assisted Suicide
October 15, 2013 No Comments
Death With Dignity Carter v Canada (Attorney General) 2013 BCCA 435 The plaintiffs Ms. Carter and Ms. Taylor, both of whom suffered from intractable and
The Ng End of Life Support Case
January 27, 2013 No Comments
The NG End of Life Support Case – Trevor Todd Co counsel Article By Vancouver Sun Columnist Ian Mulgrew. The family of a Vancouver man who
Ending Life Support
November 7, 2012 No Comments
Ending Life Support is a very topical and controversial topic in recent years and on a continual basis. The question of termination of life often
Court Orders Life Support Of Infant Be Withdrawn
October 10, 2012 No Comments
An Alberta Curt ordered that life support be withdrawn of an irreversibly critically ill infant. Alberta Appeal Court (Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act, Director)