TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baum,Daniel Jay
TI  - Life or death: a matter of choice? 
T2  - Understanding Canadian law series
SN  - 1459730585
AV  - KE3648 
U1  - 344.7104/19 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Toronto, Ontario
PB  - Dundurn
KW  - Patients
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Canada
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Euthanasia
KW  - Right to die
KW  - LAW
KW  - Health
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; INTRODUCTION -- WHO ARE THE JUDGES? -- CHAPTER 1 : LET THE MEDICINE GO DOWN -- REGARDLESS? -- CHAPTER 2 : FORCED CONFINEMENT, FORCED MEDICATION -- CHAPTER 3 : MERCY KILLING: A DEFENCE TO MURDER? -- CHAPTER 4 : ASSISTED SUICIDE: A "RIGHT" TO DIE? -- CHAPTER 5 : END OF LIFE
N2  - According to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, our bodies should be ours to control, free from state interference. But how is this principle applied in Canada? Do the terminally ill have the right to ask for assistance in dying? Can physicians insist that their patients must have certain medical treatments? Must the mentally ill do what their doctors believe is best for them or can they decide to opt out of treatment? These are difficult ethical and legal dilemmas that we are still in process of resolving as Canadians. Right now euthanasia, for example, is still illegal in Canada, but a B.C. Supreme Court decision has recently overturned a ban on assisted suicide. Legal expert Daniel Baum examines what safeguards that the Charter offers us as Canadian citizens about our right to opt out of taking medications, accepting medical treatments, being forcibly confined because of mental illness, and asking for assistance if we or our loved ones wish to be allowed to die
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