Why autonomy is vital to MAID law and the right to die
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Get ready for a brand new season of Dragon's Den with a new full-time dragon, Drew Scott from Property Brothers, Thursdays at 8, 8.30 Newfoundland, streamed now on CBC and CBC Gem. Brought to you in part by AWS. This is a CBC podcast. Ideal end-of-life legislation would respect the wishes of individuals to die according to their own values. Dr.
Arthur Schaeffer has thought a lot about life and death. Your values may not be the same as mine. The way you live your life will likely be quite different from the way I live my life, and I will want the way I die to reflect the values by which I lived as you will. The values by which we all live and die have changed greatly over the span of Arthur Schaeffer's long career as an ethicist. I think there's been a cultural revolution.
And I think we have progressively as a society moved towards a greater respect for individuals. Arthur Schaeffer, at nearly 82, has helped shape policy local and national on many of the thorniest ethical questions of our time, and he isn't done yet. It's a very exciting time to be alive, but it's also a potentially a fearful and and threatening time. All of us, as citizens, as individual human beings, and as philosophy professors have, I think, an obligation to be involved, to work for a kinder, gentle person. society.
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