caa a22 4500 386335443 CHVBK 20180307111732.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0841820900000953 doi S0841820900000953 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0841820900000953 Browne Alister Assisted Suicide and Active Voluntary Euthanasia [Elektronische Daten] [Alister Browne] Modern medicine has been enormously successful in saving and extending lives. No one can reasonably regret this, but it exacerbates a problem which has always been with us, namely, how to treat those who are alive, but not living lives they think worthwhile, and have no prospects for anything better. Under current Canadian law, one who wants to die can either commit suicide, or, if he is competent, refuse all treatment necessary for life. But one does not always have the ability and opportunity to do the former, and the latter does not always bring about a gentle and easy death for either the patient or his loved ones. The question thus arises as to whether we should make legal provision for assisted suicide - providing the means of suicide - and active voluntary euthanasia - killing the patient on request. The Canadian Law Reform Commission1 has recently taken up this question, and answered with a clear "No.” I shall argue in what follows that the answer should be "Yes.” Copyright © Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 1989 The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence Cambridge University Press 2/1(1989-01), 35-56 0841-8209 2:1<35 1989 2 CJL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0841820900000953 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0841820900000953 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Browne Alister NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence Cambridge University Press 2/1(1989-01), 35-56 0841-8209 2:1<35 1989 2 CJL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge