241-Suicide
241.Every one who
(a) counsels a person to commit suicide,or
(b) aids or abets a person to commit suicide
whether suicide ensues or not, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.
R.S.'1985,c. C-46, s.241; R.S., S985,c.27 (1st Supp.), s.7.
Based on this law,any form of assisted suicide brands the accomplice as malicious.however for most instances these brands are false assumptions. these cases deal more with ending lives due to a feeling of human compassion and not wanting to see another person suffer.
Two of the most famous cases in Canada that illustrates the terrible inadequacy of our Canadian law on assisted suicide are " The Evelyn Martens' case and Robert Latimer's case " , both were prosecuted for acts of compassion.
http://ethics-euthanasia.ca/case-study-evelyn-martens/
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