The story of euthanasia in Canada continues to be written. A developing angle of this story is whether faith-based health-care facilities — and by extension any health-care facility — can decline to offer euthanasia, on the view that this practice is a type of killing and therefore unconnected to health care.
This issue flared up last summer, when St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver declined to provide euthanasia to a terminal patient, who was ultimately transferred to a facility that would perform euthanasia.
