Daily Archives: February 8, 2015

This was a dark week in the history of Canada as the Supreme Court struck down the law criminalizing assisted suicide. Can you imagine our doctors prescribing medication with the following instructions: if the pain persists, give her two at night and call the funeral director in the morning… Can you imagine what the state of elderly and palliative care would look like 20 years hence were we to trod down this slippery slope? For comparison: think of when a similarly “compassionate” ruling was passed by the Supreme Court back in 1988 striking down the law against abortion. Twenty years later, we have this grim statistic: one in four pregnancies end in abortion.

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