It seems quite unlikely one Canadian in a hundred could explain the pending collision of the government’s newly-enacted assisted suicide act with the high-minded reasoning of Canada’s Supreme Court about just what constitutes a proper planned death. And we’re not talking about old-fashioned final arrangements here. Oh no. Listen closely or you might miss the subtle difference between a dying person’s opportunity to have an assisted death, and the undeniable death right, as the court sees it, for someone diagnosed with a typically fatal illness (but not necessarily dying any faster than the rest of us) to shorten life by months or even years while there is still time to really savour the occasion. The national guessing game of what else the court will discover in our wonderful constitution goes on. By the way, it may not be a good idea to discuss this around your older relatives. It can make them edgy.
