Possible loophole for people waiting for assisted-suicide in BC

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Imagine knowing you’re headed for an agonizing death, then being told you have to endure six more months of pain. If a BC group gets its way, people would have a choice between dying in pain or dying on their own terms whether or not the government is ready.

The BC Civil Liberties Association is asking for a way around a federal request for more time to legislate.

Elayne Shapray, who suffers from MS, is devastated by the government’s request to the Supreme Court of Canada for another six months to put together legislation on doctor-assisted dying.

“I don’t think they realize how people are suffering and what kind of condition they’re in. It’s a matter between the doctor and the patient. [The federal government] has done very little in the year they’ve had.”

“I know personally of some doctors who’ve said they’re just waiting for the green light and they’re fed up to start talking about bureaucracy,” adds Shapray.

The BCCLA has now filed a legal argument to the country’s highest court that if the federal government is given an extension then patients should be allowed a loophole on a case-by-case basis that will allow assisted dying.

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