Talk:Euthanasia in Canada

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Passive euthanasia and living wills[edit]

I carried out some radical surgery and excised these sections... On no basis could they be called NPOV, nor was any of the substantive content referenced. I would normally have tagged the one that was not previously tagged, but I really could not see how the comments could be justified under NPOV. Please revert and continue discussion if you disagree. Matruman (talk) 14:07, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relevance?[edit]

I am unsure that this page really conveys much compared to Suicide legislation and the actual cases recorded. Possibly the material in the suicide page relevant to Canada could be combined with this. There seems to be a terminology problem that is not entirely NPOV, such as the use of Euthanasia, assisted suicide, and physician assisted dying.--Michael Goodyear (talk) 15:56, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That makes sense, but I feel like the topic of Euthanasia, specifically, is a current event (at least in Canada) and/or political topic worthy of separate recognition outside of suicide in general. While there may be some NPOV issues, I think there is still some value in the article... Notwithstanding requiring a bit of facelift. —f3ndot (TALK) (EMAIL) (PGP) 16:02, 10 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Euthanasia vs Assisted Suicide[edit]

I think there is a linguistic crisis experienced on this page. The distinction between assisted suicide (whether physician or not, whether passive or not) and euthanasia is barely expanded upon. And the International Wikipedia article on Assisted Suicide leads to this Canadian article on Euthanasia. We need to distinguish euthanasia, where a person directly takes on the death of another vs assisted suicide (physician or not) where the patient needs to perform the final action, whether by an injection machine, or by consuming a lethal product.

Removing life-support is euthanasia, not suicide. If our court system isn't clearly making these distinctions, we as citizens need to ensure this is discussed.--Tallard (talk) 01:22, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"Value placed on human life"[edit]

I'm contemplating deletion of this section. For one, it's not clear which "current federal government" is being referred to. The citation provided dates back to 2000, which is three or four administrations ago. It is also unclear whose position is being quoted. At first glance it looks like it's quoting a statement by the federal government, but alas, this is not the case—it's just paraphrasing a 15-year-old book. And what follows that is nothing more than (slightly perplexing) editorializing. Any objections to a deletion? TheBlueCanoe 23:14, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Since no response, I'm going to go ahead and delete this section for now.TheBlueCanoe 02:26, 6 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Ground-up Rewrite Required - Bill C-7[edit]

This article requires a complete rewrite due to the substantial changes in Bill C-7, which eliminates the "Foreseeable Death" clause, as well as the limitations to mental illness. https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c7.html

I lack the capability of doing this myself, so in lieu of this I've created this post as well as flag the article with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Update in the hopes that it gets noticed and fixed. https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/ad-am/bk-di.html The Legacy (talk) 02:53, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't rewrite the article from scratch, but the entire article has been significantly updated to reflect all the changes made by Bill C-7 and other recent court rulings. The flag can be removed now. Veritas0000 (talk) 18:20, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The lead is quite long[edit]

Is there any way to reduce the length of the lead? It's quite long at the moment. — Red-tailed hawk (nest) 06:02, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong Gloria Taylor[edit]

Link in section Carter v. Canada (Attorney General) decision goes to wrong Gloria Taylor. Should be -

Gloria Taylor (patient)

and not Gloria Taylor who was a Nigerian Activist.

never edited in Wikipedia before so I have no idea how to change it. Mistress Insanity (talk) 17:36, 30 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed! Cornelius20 (talk) 06:22, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Public opinion[edit]

Dying with Dignity (an advocacy group) should not be used as a source to claim that the majority of Canada's public supports MAiD. Many reliable sources state that this is clearly not the case, particularly in regards to the mental health expansion.

Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 12:08, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Para. in Permissiveness section makes no sense.[edit]

"However, Canada's law no longer requires the presence of a terminal illness, like the Netherlands, Belgium's, Switzerland's, Austria's, Spain's, Italy's, Colombia's, Germany's, and Luxembourg's, allowance of euthanasia or assisted-suicide for people suffering from a long-term disability." This needs amendment, but I don’t know what the words after Luxembourg are supposed to mean. Boscaswell talk 05:08, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's basically a convoluted way of saying that many countries require a terminal illness for assisted suicide. This used to be the case in Canada but it isn't anymore. Does that help clarify things for you? Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 11:00, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

article needs reorganisation[edit]

page should be reorganised to include the following:

developments in Quebec and British Columbia

effects on Catholic hospitals and pallitative care facilities

Bird244 (talk) 18:55, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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