Two Quebecers suffering from incurable degenerative diseases were in court Monday to challenge provincial and federal laws that have left them ineligible for medically assisted death. We ask lawyer Kyla Lee where she sees the assisted dying conversation going.
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“I don’t agree with that decision at all. I think what it actually says is that for people who have lives that are intolerable to live but still have many many years left to living that intolerable life, that society and under particular our legal system doesn’t value their independence enough to let them make a decision about what they want to do with their lives.”
“We let people make decisions about their medical future in other contexts. You can sign something like ‘do not resuscitate orders’ so that if something happens to you and you stop breathing they can’t bring you back to life.”