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\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Living With Dignity Newsletter<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
\u00a0 Vol. 7<\/span><\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/span>A Word from the Director<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Last Wednesday, June 1, many members of Living with Dignity<\/em> and hundreds of others gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa to protest against\u00a0the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. I thank\u00a0everyone who made the trip with us and whom I had the pleasure of meeting that day. Your action and your support continue to give me motivation and hope !<\/p>\n

Furthermore, although the deadline\u00a0given by the Supreme Court of Canada (June 6) has now passed, the federal government has not yet finished writing its legislation to regulate euthanasia and assisted suicide in Canada. We thus find ourselves in a potentially chaotic limbo where each province, each college of physicians and even each health professional is free to interpret the Carter judgment in his own way.<\/p>\n

From the beginning, the Liberal government, under pressure from a theoretical obligation to respect a date on a calendar, has hustled each step of a process that should normally be done with calm and prudence. Yet we are close to the end of the discussions as members of the Senate must in turn propose amendments to\u00a0Bill C-14.<\/p>\n

The lack of consensus in the Senate (as in the population!) feeds our concerns since several scenarios are possible. For now, we only know that the Senate has asked to remove the words \"reasonably foreseeable death\" from\u00a0the bill, which opens wide the door to the death of\u00a0people who are not at the end of life so that they can commit suicide with the help of a medical professional. Senate members are also reported to request that\u00a0advance directives (suicide later by a written advance request) should be included\u00a0in the legislation\"\".<\/p>\n

Pending the final version of the legislation, many medical homicides will therefore be committed legally given the current legal environment, although these same actions may be illegal later when the law finally enters into force. This inconsistency illustrates the logic of assisted suicide to\u00a0which social morality is obliged to adapt in order to fit the changing mood of the law ...<\/p>\n

But whatever the winds of fashion, Living with Dignity<\/em> is committed, with your support, to stand firm to defend the dignity of every human person against the attacks of a disfigured compassion.<\/p>\n

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Aubert MARTIN, executive director, Living with Dignity<\/p>\n

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