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MONTREAL – Doctors will soon receive standardized kits that will allow them to carry out assisted suicides, reports the National Post.
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The kits will be made of nerve-calming drugs that will help stop breathing.
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In addition, there will be step by step instructions to follow from start to finish.
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Quebec’s College of Physicians, the Quebec Order of Pharmacists and the Quebec Order of Nurses all played a role in creating the guidelines.
WATCH: Doctors will soon receive standardized kits that will allow them to carry out assisted suicides as part Quebec’s right-to-die law. Howard Cohen reports.
The kits could be sent out as early as September 10.
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The province’s right-to-die legislation comes into effect at the end of the year.
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