Mutt

This is why when I hear somebody died of a heart attack my thought is 'That's wonderful. Congrats to all involved'. Because other than dying in your sleep a sudden fatal heart attack is the closest thing.

Cancer is bad, different cancers though have different courses of destruction - some are not nearly as painful as others and with some the pain only comes near the end when a good doctor should be able to keep the pain at bay with narcotics. It's still illegal to prescribe heroin for the terminally ill which is mind blowingly cruel and stupid.

Canadian Supreme Court just handed down a decision that is fairly broad, stating that assisted suicide is legal for people in a lot of pain, and they didn't make a distinction between physical and mental suffering. The government has a year to pass a law setting the conditions/rules for assisted suicide. If they do nothing then by default it becomes legal BUT no doctor or friend will want to risk helping somebody to die because the risk is you could still be charged and have a long legal battle to defend yourself. I'm hoping Harper does the right thing and passes a reasonable assisted suicide law similar to Switzerland's. I doubt he will unfortunately.

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