Just Dying: A discussion of euthanasia

On Jan. 13, McGill’s Faculty of Law welcomes Jocelyn Downie, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy and Professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine at Dalhousie University, to deliver the annual Lecture in Health and Law: Just Dying: A Discussion of Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and the Law.

On Jan. 13, McGill’s Faculty of Law welcomes Jocelyn Downie, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy and Professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine at Dalhousie University, to deliver the annual Lecture in Health and Law. Sponsored by the McGill Research Group on Health and Law and the McGill Biomedical Ethics Unit, the lecture, Just Dying: A Discussion of Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and the Law, will explore the state of end of life law and policy in Canada and offer up a position on what Quebec (and other jurisdictions at various levels of government) could and should do in response to calls for the decriminalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide.

Jocelyn Downie, Just Dying: A Discussion of Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide and the Law, Jan. 13, 4:30 p.m., Room 312, New Chancellor Day Hall, 3644 Peel Street.