Doctor Assisted Suicide

In a sense I feel this is a sad day in our recent history. Today we have learned that the Supreme Court has ruled that the section of the Criminal Code that makes it a crime to assist a person in committing suicide has been ruled unconstitutional. From today's Supreme Court of Canada Decision:

Section 241 (b) and s. 14 of the Criminal Code unjustifiably infringe s. 7 of the Charter and are of no force or effect to the extent that they prohibit physician‑assisted death for a competent adult person who (1) clearly consents to the termination of life and (2) has a grievous and irremediable medical condition (including an illness, disease or disability) that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable to the individual in the circumstances of his or her condition.

The declaration of invalidity is suspended for 12 months. This will allow Parlaiment to fashion new laws around assited suicide.

I feel that this goes against the most basic element of the Hippocratic Oath: to first and foremost - Do no harm! The picture to the right is an 11th century Byzantine copy of the Hippocratic Oath. 
Notice the cross!

Yet perhaps this is simply another step away from life in a culture of death that removes God from the centre of life.

We are becoming a Self made society that worships its creator!