Euthanasia, today it means to “allow” someone to die, either at the hands of someone else, or at his or her own hands. Actually, euthanasia is a Greek word meaning “good death” or “happy death”. Its intention surely was not suicide or assisted suicide. How has the meaning of...

The topic of euthanasia was frontline news in 1992 when a woman named Sue Rodriques challenged the Supreme Court of Canada. Ms. Rodriques suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease and wanted a court order that would allow someone to provide the means to assist her in taking her life at the time of her ch...