Sentences with phrase «irremediable psychological suffering»

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When the Canadian Supreme Court conjured in its governing Charter the right to receive euthanasia for virtually any diagnosed condition that causes «irremediable suffering» — a term that includes «psychological pain,» disability, and suffering that is deemed irremediable because alleviating treatment is refused by the patient — I hoped Canadian doctors would revolt.

An individual's condition will be considered «grievous and irremediable» if it is serious and incurable, has put them in an «advanced state of irreversible decline in capacity», has caused them intolerable, enduring physical or psychological suffering, and where their natural death is reasonably foreseeable.