Persuasive Essay On Legalizing Assisted Suicide

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The origins of the fight to legalize assisted suicide in Canada go back decades but only recently has it gained serious traction and at the centre of the arguments favouring the legalization of assisted suicide is how the refusing patients the right to die by way of assisted suicide violates the reasonable limits clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The purpose of invoking the reasonable limits clause in this fight is to show that not giving terminally ill patients the option to pass on through assisted suicide gives the government to much say in how a patient passes on and denies patients control over their own fate and the right in patients view to die with dignity thus violating the reasonable limits clause. While fighting
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There are other people on the opposite end of the spectrum regarding this issue such as
Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth say “I do not agree with legalizing the ability of anyone to take another’s life,” but if such a situation arises where there is no hope for a turnaround regarding the outcome of an illness when the patient is an adult who is more than capable of making their own choices and has come to the conclusion on their own terms that they want to peacefully pass on to another life and want to take control of their life back from their illness and nothing should be wrong about that (Leblanc, 2015). While politicians continue to debate the topic of assisted suicide it won’t change the fact that now the Canadian public largely supports the right to die by way of assisted suicide as a 2014 survey reveals. Dying With Dignity Canada conducted the survey which found that 84% of Canadians supported the rights of a terminally ill competent adult to have assisted help in order to pass on with dignity which goes to show