Nursing home staff would be helping an Abbotsford Alzheimer's patient commit suicide if they stopped feeding her, risking criminal charges of culpable homicide, a lawyer representing the provincial government in a B.C. Supreme Court case says. "To the extent that (the patient's living will) constitutes an instruction to assist her in committing suicide, it cannot be enforced without the commission of an offence ...," Crown lawyer Jonathan Penner said, referring to the fact that euthanasia is illegal in Canada. He made the comment in a court document filed in response to a lawsuit by family members of the patient Margaret (Margot) Bentley. The family filed suit against...
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