Drake Fenton, Postmedia News
On Monday, it will be 20 years since the Supreme Court of Canada told Sue Rodriguez she had no legal right to take her own life. After being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, in 1991, the Victoria woman made national headlines and captured the public’s attention by asking a simple question.
“If I cannot give consent to my own death, whose body is this? Who owns my life?” she asked in a video statement prepared for members of Parliament that same year.
