{"id":5771,"date":"2015-03-10T00:56:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T00:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5771"},"modified":"2015-04-16T21:01:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T21:01:56","slug":"in-the-assisted-dying-debate-wheres-the-compassion-for-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5771","title":{"rendered":"In the assisted-dying debate, where’s the compassion for doctors?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edmonton Journal<\/em> (Editorial)<\/p>\n

What happens when those we trust most with human life are suddenly in charge of death?<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada, ruling against a family who wanted their mother’s care home to stop spoon-feeding her.<\/p>\n

It’s difficult to fault either party.<\/p>\n

Margaret Bentley, 83, neither speaks nor recognizes her relatives, and her family is certain the former dementia-ward nurse, now in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease herself, would not want her life to continue in her current state.<\/p>\n

A living will written by Bentley in 1991 outlined as much in no uncertain terms: “If at such a time the situation should arise that there is no reasonable expectation of my recovery from extreme physical or mental disability, I direct that I be allowed to die and not be kept alive by artificial means or ‘heroic measures.’ ”<\/p>\n

But Bentley’s health-care workers refused to deliberately withhold food. They argued that by opening her lips to receive food when touched with a spoon, Bentley was consenting to being fed, and thus to being kept alive. The courts agreed. . . [Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edmonton Journal (Editorial) What happens when those we trust most with human life are suddenly in charge of death? Earlier this month, the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada, ruling against a family who wanted their mother’s care home to stop spoon-feeding her. 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