The Legal Status of Deep and Continuous Palliative Sedation Without Artificial Nutrition and Hydration

* Jocelyn Downie, CM, FRSC, FCAHS, SJD, is a University Research Professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine at Dalhousie University. Richard Liu holds a BA from the University of Cambridge and LLM from Harvard University. The authors would like to thank Brad Abernethy and Steve Coughlan for their challenging and constructive comments on earlier drafts of this paper and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation for financial support of this research.