CRIM 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Indictable Offence

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 230
• Professor: Simon Verdun- Jones

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Can"t help, if they can"t prove it. Vegetative state does not make a person legally dead. Criteria for the determination of death: the irreversible cessation of brain functions can be determined by the prolonged absence of spontaneous circulatory and respiratory functions. If they are already dead, i can still kill them b/c they are eventually going to die. No person is entitled to actually kill you, you can"t have another person kill you. Active euthanasia (pleasant death) (deliberately infliction of a painless dead) Passive euthanasia (painless as possible) withdrawing treatment and allowing the patient to do die. Criminal code s. 241 everyone is guilty of an indictable offence.