Philosophy 2715F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Culpable Homicide, Spinal Stenosis, Assisted Suicide
18 Apr 2019
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Assisted suicide: killing yourself with the aid of another person, sometimes a physician (ie. the physician may prescribe a lethal dose of pills, but the patient decides when to take them) Euthanasia: intentionally ending the life of another person in order to relieve pain and suffering (ie. the physician administers an injection to a patient that causes their death) 241: everyone who a) counsels a person to commit suicide or b) aids a person to commit suicide. Whether the suicide actually leads to death or not, the person who helps suicide is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years. 229: culpable homicide is murder when a) a person who causes the death of a human being (whether they mean to cause the death or means to cause bodily harm that is likely to cause dead)
