Right to Die
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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The Right to DieThe courageous Canadians who gave us the right to a dignified death |
"Who owns my life?" Sue Rodriguez was dying of a form of ALS (or Lou Gehrig’s disease) when she asked this question of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1993. She was fighting for … | Gary Bauslaugh | 290 | 2016 | View |
From IntroductionOn Matters of Life, Death and the Law From: The Right to Die |
Examines different types of assisted death and lays out the purpose of this book | Gary Bauslaugh | 8 | 2016 | $0.80 Add |
From Forty Shades of MercyFrom: The Right to Die |
In all of the examples in this chapter we see deaths caused by acts of mercy, and we see mercy shown to those who caused the deaths. In none of these cases was the full force of the law applied … | Gary Bauslaugh | 28 | 2016 | $2.80 Add |
From Children’s Rights and Health LawThe “Mature Minor” Rule Revisited From: Children and the Law |
Review of the “mature minor” rule from the Supreme Court of Canada decision of A.C. v. Manitoba (Director of Child and Family Services). | Gerald B. Robertson | 17 | 2011 | $1.70 Add |
From Robert Latimer:Justice Goes Awry — 1993 From: The Right to Die |
The Robert Latimer story was one of the most widely covered news stories in Canadian history. It is a story, unlike some of the previous ones, where the justice system found no way of mitigating … | Gary Bauslaugh | 17 | 2016 | $1.70 Add |
From Sue Rodriguez:Who Owns My Life? — 1993 From: The Right to Die |
A landmark event in the history of the movement to legalize assisted death in Canada began with a videotaped statement issued to a parliamentary committee in 1992. In November of that year, a … | Gary Bauslaugh | 18 | 2016 | $1.80 Add |
From John Hofsess and his Underground RailroadFrom: The Right to Die |
John Hofsess, who founded the Right to Die Society of Canada in 1991, is an intriguing and controversial figure. He was a friend of artists and intellectuals such as Margaret Atwood, Claude Jutra … | Gary Bauslaugh | 33 | 2016 | $3.30 Add |
From The Trial of Evelyn Martens — 2004From: The Right to Die |
Evelyn Martens, a seventy-four-yearold grandmother, was facing the prospect of as much as twenty-eight years in prison.This chapter examins Martens trial which took place on September 20, 2004. | Gary Bauslaugh | 40 | 2016 | $4.00 Add |
From A Breakthrough in the B.C. Courts — 2012From: The Right to Die |
By 2011 the public interest in a change in the law on assisted suicide again started to gain momentum. Parole Board slights to Robert Latimer continued to gain public attention. The experience of … | Gary Bauslaugh | 18 | 2016 | $1.80 Add |
From Some Doctors Weigh In — 2013From: The Right to Die |
The medical community has long had mixed feelings about assisted death. Some doctors claim that helping a patient die is a violation of the Hippocratic injunction to “do no harm,” … | Gary Bauslaugh | 17 | 2016 | $1.70 Add |
From Whose Jurisdiction Is It Anyway? Quebec — 2014 From: The Right to Die |
Is assisted death a health care matter or is it a criminal one? This may seem an odd question, but in the contentious and confusing world of federal-provincial jurisdictional responsibilities, it … | Gary Bauslaugh | 14 | 2016 | $1.40 Add |
From Gillian Bennett, Dead at Noon — 2014From: The Right to Die |
At noon on August 18, 2014, eighty-three-year-old Gillian Bennett, of Bowen Island in British Columbia, took her own life. In the next several days her story was carried in the news media across … | Gary Bauslaugh | 20 | 2016 | $2.00 Add |
From The Supreme Court of Canada Hearing — 2014 From: The Right to Die |
Examines the Supreme Court of Canada Hearing from October 15, 2014 | Gary Bauslaugh | 34 | 2016 | $3.40 Add |
From The Historic Decision — 2015From: The Right to Die |
The ruling appeared on February 6, 2015. It was a historic vindication of Justice Smith and of the opinions of the many people who have felt that Section 241(b) of the Criminal Code of Canada was … | Gary Bauslaugh | 19 | 2016 | $1.90 Add |
From Responding to Unjust LawsFrom: The Right to Die |
Conclusions and final thoughts which examines the question: What should we do about laws we perceive to be unjust? | Gary Bauslaugh | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |