title: Assisted Dying in Canada.
abstract: This paper makes an affirmative ethical case in favour of the decriminalization of assisted dying in Canada. It then proceeds to defending the affirmative case against various slippery-slope arguments that are typically deployed by opponents of assisted dying. Finally, a recent case of questionable professional conduct by anti-euthanasia campaigners cum academics is flagged as a warning to all of us not to permit the quality of the professional debate to deteriorate unacceptably, despite the personal emotional investments involved on all sides of the debate.
authors.affiliation: Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics and Public Policy, Queen's University, Kingston, Chair of the Royal Society of Canada Panel on End-of-Life Decision-Making, 2009-2011.
authors.forename: Udo
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Schuklenk