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It’s time to expand assisted-dying legislation to include advance directives for dementia It’s time to expand assisted-dying legislation to include advance directives for dementia
By Stuart Chambers
Is it Time to Allow Assisted Suicide? Is it time to allow assisted suicide?
By Harvey Max Chochinov and Balfour M. Mount

This week, the Supreme Court of Canada has been hearing an appeal by the BC Civil Liberties Association that could grant terminally ill Canadians the right to assisted suicide. With this impending ruling and the passing of Bill 52 in Quebec (Medical Aid in Dying) and rumblings from parliament of another private members bill on assisted suicide, Canada is at a crossroads.

Dying well Dying well
By Harvey Max Chochinov

The last time I was in Israel, I went on some home visits with a palliative care physician in the town of Sfat near the Sea of Galilee. My colleague, a devout Jewish doctor, took me to several homes to offer advice on managing his most serious, terminally ill patients. One older Chassidic Rabbi was dealing with an advanced lung cancer, and having a difficult time accepting any kind of help from his young adult children.