Canada's Terri Schiavo?

Canada Supreme Court to make life and death decision on landmark appeal in December

Kirk Makin

Toronto Globe and Mail

May 17, 2012

The case is almost certain to result in a judgment that provides guidance on a complex medical and philosophical question: Who decides when it no longer makes sense to sustain a life?

Link: Ethics of Disorders of Consciousness, Joseph Fins, MD and Art Caplan, PhD, The Bioethics Channel, December 1, 2010