euthanasia

and those with other terminal illnesses, they do not have the luxury of that choice. Most often, they die in painful, stressing ways. They place the burden of grief and a burden of money on the family. Some of those terminally ill patients opt to end the misery !
             by committing suicide, or as the legal code puts it, euthanasia. In Canadian society, euthanasia is illegal and the Criminal Code threatens punishment of fourteen years, yet the courts will put different interpretations to different situations. In 1991 a bill was enacted preventing physicians from assisting in a suicide. The following year another bill was enacted to amend the Criminal Code. This bill repealed Section 14 and in its place subjected anyone who counsels, aids, or abets a person to commit suicide, guilty as such. Thus the issue of "the right to die" is hotly debated because society is so divided by it.
             Consider the problem of nations. In Canada, doctor assisted suicide is illegal. Once the lif
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