The Right to Die: The courageous Canadians who gave us the right to a dignified death
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"Who owns my life?" Sue Rodriguez was dying of a form of ALS (or Lou Gehrig's disease) when she asked this question of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1993. She was fighting for the right to a physician-assisted death before she became fully paralyzed. At the time, assisted suicide could result in jail time for the participating physician. In a narrow decision, Rodriguez lost her case. She died in 1994.
In a historic reversal, in 2015 the Supreme Court of Canada changed its mind. The court r...



