CRM 2309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Robert Latimer
20 Mar 2019
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In 2016 the medical aid dying was legalised. Physician administered euthanasia; physician is the one who administered the drugs say that"ll end the persons life. Physician assisted suicide; were the person can say take the prescription or something that allows them to pass. Conditions to be able to do so apply for medical assisted suicide; first of all, you can"t be a minor. Secondly the death of the individual has to be foreseeable. Which means you have to prove say that theirs no cure for a medical condition. If you can"t prove that your illness is death foreseeable or if a doctor can"t prove it than it becomes difficult. If practitioners notice that they individual is hesitant or changes his or her mind often than they have the authority to suspend the assistance. Taking the life of someone else is not always ethical according to people moral code.
