Death on request or aid to suicide violates deeply-rooted moral beliefs
of most faiths which deem it to be ethically unjustifiable. Those beliefs do
not matter any longer. In the past these beliefs have certainly influenced civic
laws in Canada that prohibited euthanasia and assisted suicide. Twelve years
ago the Supreme Court of Canada ruled against physician-assisted suicide when
Sue Rodriguez petitioned to end her life. Subsequent cases repeatedly
challenged that ruling? Sufferers, families of sufferers, and journalists
lobbied for approval of assisted death by emotionally describing the
petitioners’ desire to leave their pain behind.
