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Assisted Suicide: a Right v. a Non-prosecuted Alternative

Death Rights: This carefully written article assesses the difference between Canada’s judicially determined right to assisted suicide with Germany’s legislative allowance for narrow instances of assisted suicide without prosecution for family members: “Laws forbidding suicide assistance are based on the moral conviction that all killing of innocent life is wrong. If liberal democracies today can no longer sustain this conviction, that is one thing. But to replace the old prohibition with a new approach that creates a ‘right’ to be killed incites a moral revolution.”

 
 
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