In this scenario, you are serving as someone’s medical doctor. Unfortunately for that patient, they have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease with little time left before their autonomy is lost. This diagnosis has taken a great emotional toll on the patient’s family and friends. The patient, not wanting to lose their autonomy to the disease or cause further pain to their close ones, is open to being euthanized. As a practicing physician in Canada, you are legally allowed to authorize medically assisted death to the patient. However, we are more interested in whether this action is…