Aubert Martin explains that in legalizing euthanasia, society has crowned the splendor of individualism in balancing the weight of two pains: the suffering of an individual versus the suffering of their relatives. They have decreed that the suffering of relatives should not be considered in calculating the benefit of euthanasia. Read more >>
Continue Reading → Euthanasia releases me but betrays my loved ones
Read Dr. Catherine Ferrier’s response to an article discussing the euthanasia of Richard Brown; the “death he wanted.” Read more >>
Continue Reading → Letters: Alternative to death
Blog post published by Aubert Martin in the Huffington Post after recent cases of people who starve to be euthanized according to the criteria of the law. This wave of advocacy for suicide leads supporters of euthanasia to validate reasons for wanting to die. At the same time, people with severe disabilities are cunningly deprived of indisputable status of “human being” for the sole reason that they cannot “do it all by themselves” Read the article >>
Continue Reading → Compassion redefined
In an article originally published in French in the Huffington Post following the ministerial modifications to conform Quebec's Act respecting end-of-life care to the federal law, Aubert Martin explains that these changes remind us that there are indeed risks of abuse and, therefore, these changes put us back into the heart of a fundamental issue regarding assisted suicide: free and informed consent. Read more >>
Continue Reading → Free and informed consent?
The federal government’s bill C-14 was adopted this past Friday, June 17th 2016, by a majority of Senate members.
As of today, the Criminal Code contains “exemptions from the offences of culpable homicide, of aiding suicide and of administering a noxious thing, in order to permit medical practitioners and nurse practitioners to provide medical assistance in dying and to permit pharmacists and other persons to assist in the process” (>>).
In other words, the government has ...
Continue Reading → C-14 now law: the resistance continues