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2.
(1993), 79 C.C.C.(3rd) 1 (B.C.C.A.).
3.
Id. at 19.
4.
BlackstoneW.Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1769; vol. 4, p. 189.
5.
Note 1 above, at 396.
6.
Id. at 388.
7.
Id. at 389.
8.
Law Reform Commission of Canada. Report 20. Euthanasia, Aiding Suicide and Cessation of Treatment. Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1983.
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Airedale N.H.S. Trust v. Bland, [1993] 2 W.L.R. 316 (H.L.).
10.
Note 1 above, at 401.
11.
Id. at 406.
12.
Id. at 411.
13.
Id. at 349–386.
14.
Id. at 358–359.
15.
Id. at 359.
16.
Id. at 378.
17.
Id. at 414.
18.
Id.
19.
Id. at 417–418.
20.
Id. at 404.
21.
Id. at 423.
22.
Id. at 413.
23.
Patients cannot lawfully consent, for instance, to certain aggravated assaults or wounding, known in the historic common law as maims or mayhems, and s. 14 of the Criminal Code of Canada provides that “No person is entitled to consent to have death inflicted on him.”
24.
Note 1 above, at 371, referring to Somerville MA. Pain and suffering at interfaces of medicine and law. University of Toronto Law Journal1986; 36: 286–317.
