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Article: Dying Justice: A Case for Decriminalizing Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Canada.(Book review)
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- McGill Law Journal
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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Jocelyn Downie, Dying Justice: A Case for Decriminalizing Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. x, 201.
Pressure to permit voluntary euthanasia and/or physician-assisted suicide is mounting in several jurisdictions around the world, not least ours. Much of that pressure takes the form of academic opinion, both legal and philosophical. Professor Jocelyn Downie's Dying Justice reflects this trend. Professor Downie, Director of the Health Law Institute at Dalhousie University, shines a Canadian perspective on the subject, though her book will be of interest beyond Canada as the arguments she advances reflect the ...