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Podcast: Thinking Out Loud
Episode: Medically Assisted Suicide and the Sanctity of Life
Description: A recent piece in Reuters highlights a new expansion to the laws surrounding physician assisted suicide in Canada. The new law would move the criteria beyond terminal illness to include mental illness as well. If this sounds like a slippery slope, a growing number of human rights activists feel the same and are raising serious questions. In this episode, we explore the sad irony surrounding modern assumptions about the value of human life.