Assertion: euthanasia's suffering | /r/HasProperty | intolerable
Facets:
value: to the individual
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to them
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: (c) that illness, disease or disability or that state of decline causes them enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to them and that cannot be relieved under conditions that they consider acceptable; and
text: As a result of the decision voluntary euthanasia was expected to be made legal for "a competent adult person who (1) clearly consents to the termination of life and (2) has a grievous and irremediable medical condition (including an illness, disease or disability) that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable to the individual in the circumstances of his or her condition".
text: In its analysis, the court wrote, 'the prohibition deprives some individuals of life, as it has the effect of forcing some individuals to take their own lives prematurely, for fear that they would be incapable of doing so when they reached the point where suffering was intolerable.'
text: In its analysis, the court wrote, 'the prohibition deprives some individuals of life, as it has the effect of forcing some individuals to take their own lives prematurely, for fear that they would be incapable of doing so when they reached the point where suffering was intolerable.'
text: That's different from the Court's phrasing: it held unanimously that a patient suffering a 'grievous and irremediable medical condition' could seek a physician's help to end 'suffering that is intolerable.'
text: That's different from the Court's phrasing: it held unanimously that a patient suffering a 'grievous and irremediable medical condition' could seek a physician's help to end 'suffering that is intolerable.'
text: (2) A person has a grievous and irremediable medical condition only if they meet all of the following criteria: (a) they have a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability; (b) they are in an advanced state of irreversible decline in capability; (c) that illness, disease or disability or that state of decline causes them enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to them and that cannot be relieved under conditions that they consider acceptable; and (d) their natural death has become reasonably foreseeable, taking into account all of their medical circumstances, without a prognosis necessarily having been made as to the specific length of time that they have remaining.
text: The Court”) found that the prohibition on euthanasia violates section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms when it prohibits access for “a competent adult person who (1) clearly consents to the termination of life and (2) has a grievous and irremediable medical condition (including an illness, disease or disability) that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable to the individual in the circumstances of his or her condition” (irremediable, the Court said, means that the condition cannot be alleviated by means acceptable to the person).