Ottawa
Bishops: keep palliative care separate from legalised killing
Canada’s bishops have called for euthanasia and assisted suicide to be considered as distinct from the practice of palliative care.
In response to a public consultation the bishops asked that palliative care should “not include interventions which intentionally cause the death of the patient”, saying there was a “fundamental distinction” that needed to be maintained. Assisted suicide and euthanasia were legalised in Canada in 2016.
