In 2015, Canada joined the small, but growing number of countries which have legalized physician-assisted suicide (Jones). In the Supreme Court ruling, it stipulates that in the case that a patient suffers from a serious, irremediable illness or disability, experiences unbearable physical or mental suffering, and has a "reasonable foreseeability of natural death," a physician is allowed to medically assist their suicide; this is contingent on the patient’s voluntary request and informed consent (Bill C-14 6). For a physician, assisted suicide requires grappling with obligations and purpose…