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Assignment Questions -

1. Where would you draw the line with assisted suicide and why? Please justify.

2. How would you safeguard the line you want to draw?

3. Sue Rodriguez, who was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig disease, went to court in the 1990's to ask for the right to be assisted by a physician in her suicide. She stated that she was experiencing disability discrimination because she might not be able to kill herself, something others can do, when she would reach a certain stage of her disease. (Wolbring 2016).

Did she experience disability discrimination?

4. "To keep someone alive against their wishes is the ultimate indignity," Hawking, 73, told his interviewer, the comedian Dara O'Brian. "I would consider assisted suicide only if I were in great pain or felt I had nothing more to contribute but was just a burden to those around me (Elgot, 2015)."

How is contribution quantified? And how do we determine when a person has nothing left to contribute?

Elgot, J. (2015). Stephen Hawking: 'I would consider suicide.' The guardian.

5. In 2011, a Report by the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on End-of-Life Decision-Making was published which stated:

"There is a dearth of empirical literature describing end of life care, palliative care and attitudes towards assisted suicide and euthanasia concerning disabled populations in Canada. It is fair to say that there is no consensus among this group. Some disability activists have raised concerns that more permissive legislation will have a negative impact on such groups, many of whom have suffered from stigma, bias and marginalization. Furthermore, prevailing attitudes towards disability engrain beliefs that consider such lives undesirable and erode sufficient resistance to public policies that could hasten death. Others, however, argue that persons living with disabilities should have their autonomy respected (historically, there have been significant violations of their autonomy) and that such respect includes respecting their wishes in regard to assisted suicide and euthanasia. Arguments against a permissive regime, they argue, disrespect their capacity for self-determination" Schüklenk, U.; Van Delden, J.J.; Downie, J.; Mclean, S.A.; Upshur, R.; Weinstock, D. End-of-life decision-making in canada: The report by the royal society of canada expert panel on end-of-life decision-making. Bioethics 2011, 25, 1-73.

Please critically analyse the quote including the use of the concept of autonomy.

5. To what extent does the argument for assisted suicide impact persons with diverse abilities? Could the legalization of assisted suicide be compatible with the disability rights approach to ethics?

6. What do proponents of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia legislation do to ensure that vulnerable populations are not at risk?

7. Give me your views on the vulnerability person standard.

8. What is your view on the reasonably foreseeable death requirements in Bill C-14 Should it stay? Should it be out? Reason your views.

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