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There has recently been an enormous amount of significant activity in the area of assisted death in Canada. A number of cases have raised the issue of assisted death in a very high profile and divisive way. For example, Sue Rodriguez asked the Supreme Court of Canada to find the Criminal Code prohibition of assisted suicide unconstitutional. Robert Latimer was convicted of second degree murder in the death of his severely disabled daughter. Dr. Nancy Morrison was charged with first degree murder in the death of a terminally ill patient. Each of these cases has generated considerable controversy and debate and public attention is focused on the issue of assisted death as never before.1
A version of this material will be submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree requir ements for an SJ.D. at the University of Michigan Law School. My doctoral research was supported by a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and a Jean Royce Memorial Doctoral Fellowship from Queen’s University, Canada.
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Downie, J. (2000). Country Report Canada. In: Taupitz, J. (eds) Zivilrechtliche Regelungen zur Absicherung der Patientenautonomie am Ende des Lebens / Regulations of Civil Law to Safeguard the Autonomy of Patients at the End of Their Life. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Deutsches, Europäisches und Internationales Medizinrecht, Gesundheitsrecht und Bioethik der Universitäten Heidelberg und Mannheim, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57256-2_5
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