Dying Kelowna woman taking assisted suicide case to court
Posted November 13, 2011 8:17 pm.
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KELOWNA (NEWS1130) – A Kelowna woman who’s dying of Lou Gehrig’s disease is taking her fight for doctor-assisted suicide to BC Supreme Court Monday.
Sixty-three-year-old Gloria Taylor is the fifth plaintiff in the case that aims to amend Canada’s laws so that terminally ill people gain the right to die with the help of a doctor.
Taylor’s lawyer, Sheila Tucker, says other jurisdictions have enacted right-to-die laws since 1993 – the last time a court challenge was launched on similar grounds – and Canada should do the same.
But Doctor Will Johnston, BC spokesman for the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Canada, says the Taylor case is troubling because it proposes that a doctor doesn’t have to administer the lethal dose.
