Our son enjoys an excellent ‘ordinary life’ with the support of his helpers, medical professionals, friends and family. As a person with chronic pain, he spends most of his time lying down in bed, a place of comfort from which he writes a hockey blog, Skypes friends, tweets opinions and conducts
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THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: Balancing Love, Vulnerability and the Right to a Doctor Assisted Death
In the United States, news is dominated by the pre-election primaries. But in Canada, headlines are about how my country should operationalise a Supreme Court ruling on physician-assisted suicide. The Supreme Court’s ‘Carter Decision’ found…
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