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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by jamal-kumar on Friday December 13, 2024 @01:34AM (#42406390)
That's wild, because in my understanding it's an indictable offence to aid and abet someone to end their own lives in Canada. Like more than 10 years jail

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-241.ht...

Counselling or aiding suicide

    241 (1) Everyone is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 14 years who, whether suicide ensues or not,

        (a) counsels a person to die by suicide or abets a person in dying by suicide; or

        (b) aids a person to die by suicide.
The document goes on to detail the medical exemptions we're talking about here. What's the law in Germany?
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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by squigz on Friday December 13, 2024 @02:07AM (#42406529)
I doubt GP's friend was really considering the law in that circumstance.
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Re:Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths by kstenerud on Friday December 13, 2024 @05:36AM (#42407467)
She didn't care, and she got away with it. And if she were still alive today, I wouldn't be talking about it since the statute of limitations is not passed.

Also this was in Germany, but still just as illegal.

She was the most amazing and remarkable woman I ever met. There will be an Arte documentary about her early next year (not about this; about her work in Ukraine).

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