The Right to Die: The Courageous Canadians Who Gave Us the Right to a Dignified Death
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"Who owns my life?" Sue Rodriguez was dying of a form of ALS (or Lou Gehrig's disease) when she asked this question of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1993. She was fighting for the right to a physician-assisted death before she became fully paralyzed. At the time, assisted suicide could result in jail time for the participating physician. In a narrow decision, Rodriguez lost her case. She died in 1994. In a historic reversal, in 2015 the Supreme Court...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1459411161
ISBN13:9781459411166
Release Date:April 2016
Publisher:Lorimer
Length:296 Pages
Weight:1.21 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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