Sue Rodriguez

Susan Rodriguez
Born	(1950-08-02)August 2, 1950 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Died	February 12, 1994(1994-02-12) (aged 43) British Columbia, Canada
Nationality	Canadian

Sue Rodriguez (August 2, 1950 – February 12, 1994) was a Canadian advocate of assisted suicide.

She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with the given name Sue Shipley, and grew up in Thornhill, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. Her first marriage was short-lived.

Rodriguez, who lived in Victoria, British Columbia, was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in early 1991. She fought to have a legal right to assisted suicide; under the Criminal Code, assisted suicide is punishable by a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. She took her cause to the Supreme Court of Canada, but ultimately lost the battle. On September 30, 1993, in what would become a landmark decision, Rodriguez v. British Columbia (Attorney General), the SCC held 5-4 against her.

In 1994, she decided to take her own life with the help of an anonymous physician. Svend Robinson, a New Democratic Party MP who had campaigned her cause, was also present.

A 1998 film called At the End of the Day: The Sue Rodriguez Story, with Wendy Crewson as Rodriguez, tells her story.

Gloria Taylor (patient)

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Medical ethics cases

Assisted suicide	Betty and George Coumbias Dax Cowart Giovanni Nuvoli Sue Rodriguez Ramón Sampedro Piergiorgio Welby Jack Kevorkian

Euthanasia	Andrew Bedner Tony Bland Carol Carr Nancy Cruzan case Baby Doe Law Eluana Englaro June Hartley Robert Latimer Karen Ann Quinlan case Terri Schiavo case Gloria Taylor

Physician's opinion against patient wishes	Betancourt v. Trinitas Mordechai Dov Brody Lantz v. Coleman Tirhas Habtegiris Rom Houben Sun Hudson case Baby K Jesse Koochin Joseph Maraachli case Jahi McMath case Spiro Nikolouzos case Aruna Shanbaug case David Vetter

Informed consent to treatment	Ashley Treatment Gillick competence Marion's Case Schloendorff v. Society of New York Hospital Christiane Völling

Research	Albert Stevens Albert Kligman's dermatology experiments Deep sleep therapy Doctors' trial Guatemala syphilis experiment Henrietta Lacks Human radiation experiments J. Marion Sims Jesse Gelsinger Joseph Gilbert Hamilton Moore v. Regents of the University of California Surgery to try to improve mental health Medical Experimentation on Black Americans Milgram experiment Radioactive iodine experiments Skid Row Cancer Study Stanford prison experiment Plutonium injections Tuskegee syphilis experiment Willowbrook State School Greenberg v. Miami Children's Hospital Research Institute

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 43898781 LCCN: no97001512 ISNI: 0000 0000 7401 641X

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