Monthly Archives: March 2016

Clarifying the Assisted Death Recommendations

March 11, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy

Maureen Taylor, Jocelyn Downie, and Jennifer Gibson suggest that recent commentaries on official Reports on assisted death in Canada misstate the recommendations made in the Reports and their relationship to the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Carter.

The Need to Discuss Death-Hastening Methods

March 9, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy

Stuart Chambers discusses an oversight in the Report by the Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying.

Not Dead Yet: An Unprincipled Position against Assisted Death

March 7, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Disability, Law & Policy

Stuart Chambers calls on Not Dead Yet to re-evaluate the beliefs that have shaped their anti-euthanasia and anti-assisted suicide mindset.

HIV and Organ Donation: From Taboo to Transplantation

March 4, 2016 · by · in Law & Policy, Organ Donation, Public Health

Aviva Goldberg and Marie Chantal Fortin describe the benefits of organ donation between HIV-infected persons.

Dangers of a Lax Assisted Death Regime

March 3, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy, Mental Health

Trudo Lemmens lists a number of concerns with the recent Report of the Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying.

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