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Re:Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland by therealdrag0 on Sunday December 05, 2021 @01:02PM (#29451228)
What if you had an advanced directive that explicitly called out that scenario? Not saying the law would cover that, but it plausibly could.
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Re:Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland by Pasorrijer on Sunday December 05, 2021 @01:09PM (#29451287)
In Canada, yes, advanced directives can be written.
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Re:Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland by 14 on Sunday December 05, 2021 @01:46PM (#29451702)
Not for assisted death and something like Alzheimer’s. That directive is for something like you are in a car accident and are on life support. You can have it say no life support. You can not currently say if I get Alzheimer’s I want to die it is not legally possible at this time.
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Re:Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland by Pasorrijer on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @09:46AM (#29472929)
Yes, you can. That legislation passed right before covid as a modification to the original legislation.

The original bill didn't allow it, but it got challenged in court and the government was given a deadline to add that clause.

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