The problem with Bill C-14 is that it only allows for the patient, him/her to ask hospital staff for an assisted death. What about the cases where a person is rushed into the emergency department with fatal symptoms due to injury or disease and become incapacitated to give oral and/or written consent. In a matter of hours all immediate family members come down to the hospital and cram into a small room crying over the inevitable death of their loved one. Now a doctor comes in to the room to give the prognosis, the person will die, however it could take up to  7 - 10 days until the body will give up the fight. In this scenario, the family members are held hostage to the law, only the individual about to die can request an assisted death. So the entire family have to sit and take it, they are forced to watch their loved one literally struggle to die until the very last breathe in their body. This is the law,  it's disgusting & pathetic! I  know, this experience happened to my family.