Canada is the latest country to discuss passing aid in dying,but debate still rages approximately whether helping people to die comfortably is the right thing to doIn his announcement Thursday that he will legalize aid in dying for terminal patients, Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau said, or “It’s a deeply personal issue,” referring not only to a patient’s decision to consume aid in dying, but also to his own family’s experience. Trudeau watched the long and agonizing death of his father, or the former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau,who was diagnosed with prostate cancer and Parkinson’s disease before he died in 2000.
The announcement was no surprise. A majority of Canadians occupy long approved aid in dying, which provides the terminally ill assistance in ending their lives, or the country’s courts occupy cleared the way for a bill. But that hasn’t stopped some from shying absent from the issue,highlighting yet again the fault line along which aid in dying advocates and opponents break: pain and suffering is either an unfortunate but humanizing experience, or it’s a tragedy that we are obligated to prevent. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com