"To understand why we are where we are in relation to medical assistance in dying, it is crucial to understand where we came from. Deciding on Death, the most thorough and engaging review of the field that I have ever read, provides that understanding. This exceptional book will be of great use not only to Canadians but also others around the world seeking accurate and helpful lessons from the Canadian experience of MAiD."

Jocelyn Downie, professor emeritus, Faculties of Law and Medicine, Dalhousie University

"McNeil and Sumner masterfully map thirty-five years of motley forces shaping Canadian MAiD jurisprudence. This volume not only delineates the complete legal history of MAiD in Canada but also comprehensively integrates influential international developments in end-of-life decision-making."

Thaddeus Pope, professor of law and bioethics, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

"Deciding on Death brings out the extent to which the legal development of medically assisted dying in Canada is both dependent on particularities of the Canadian legal and social context, and on the same basic ethical considerations that determine the discussion everywhere."

Govert den Hartogh, author of What Kind of Death: The Ethics of Determining One’s Own Death