Assisted suicide would have brought kindness and compassion to our mom’s death and an intolerable situation. Over her last months, mom’s chronic pain grew worse. Despite our mom’s intolerable pain, at no point prior to her fall was her death “reasonably foreseeable.” In its current form, Bill C-14 would have furthered our mom’s suffering as it would not have allowed her access to assistance in dying. She suffered bone-on-bone pain in her left shoulder and as a result had difficulties manoeuvring her walker. For years, our mom also suffered from unremitting pain, arthritis, and bone degeneration.

Source: thestar July 04, 2016 10:07 UTC