Because Life is Worth Living
Continue Reading → Press Release – A new web series from the Living with Dignity citizen network
JUN
2020
Since its tabling on November 29, the Filion-Maclure experts report has been widely talked about. Not enough, it seems, since the proposal the report is putting forward raises a major moral issue: the possibility for someone to put an end to ...
Continue Reading → Alzheimer and dementia: am I still the same person?
DEC
2019
In January, the court hearings began for two Quebec people living with disability who are contesting the Federal and Provincial law requiring people to be “at the end of life” or for whom natural death is “reasonably foreseeable” in order to be admissible for euthanasia. In other words, the two plaintiffs are asking for the state to provide them with a doctor who will ...
Continue Reading → Euthanasia: When the Means Justify the Ends
FEB
2019
The Act Respecting End-of-Life Care was sold to us as "first and foremost, a law of access to quality palliative care throughout the territory, at the patient's choice.” When it was adopted – not so long ago – its promoters insisted that it only legalized "medical aid in dying" (euthanasia) as an "exceptional measure for exceptional cases."
However it is now obvious that, almost four years since the day of its adoption and close to three years after its coming ...
Continue Reading → Our right to quality palliative care
JUN
2018
The year 2018 is off to a very bad start for supporters of euthanasia as new disturbing cases have surfaced in Belgium and the Netherlands, where euthanasia has been legal for several years.
So far, apart from a recent exception, the oversight committees in both of these countries have always been able to classify controversial cases without following them up, hoping surely that time would erase from collective memory these grey areas that smear the aura of euthanasia.
This time, however, the ...
Continue Reading → Hide these abuses that we can not see…
JAN
2018