Assisted Suicide In Canada

Canada's new assisted suicide law to be announced on Thursday will exclude non-Canadians, which means Americans won't be able to travel to Canada to die.

Although Japan has one of the world's fastest ageing populations, the country has no laws regarding "living wills", let alone assisted suicide, which is legal in a few U.S. states such as California and some nations including Canada and Belgium.

The Supreme Court of Canada decided on Friday to allow doctor-assisted suicide across the country under certain circumstances, while giving the government more time to pass a law governing the practice.

Prosecutors argued on Friday that a former nurse should be convicted of assisting suicide for sending emails and other online communications in which he urged two people in Britain and Canada to kill themselves and gave them information on how to do it.

Canada's new assisted suicide law to be announced on Thursday will exclude non-Canadians, which means Americans won't be able to travel to Canada to die.

Although Japan has one of the world's fastest ageing populations, the country has no laws regarding "living wills", let alone assisted suicide, which is legal in a few U.S. states such as California and some nations including Canada and Belgium.

The Supreme Court of Canada decided on Friday to allow doctor-assisted suicide across the country under certain circumstances, while giving the government more time to pass a law governing the practice.

Prosecutors argued on Friday that a former nurse should be convicted of assisting suicide for sending emails and other online communications in which he urged two people in Britain and Canada to kill themselves and gave them information on how to do it.