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Letter: My Mom died with dignity, in palliative care
I believe that allowing doctors to kill patients is w-r-o-n-g. Last September, my mother died with much dignity in palliative care. The care she received was a privilege to observe. My mother’s...
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Letter: I want to minimize the burden on society in my final days
Re: “Mom died with dignity in palliative care” (Your Views, June 25) I believe that allowing a patient to die with dignity should be a Canadian r-i-g-h-t. The approach in which a terminally ill person...
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Letter: Please don’t keep my body alive if my mind has gone
Re: “I don’t want to be a bother to others” (Your Views, June 28) I would like to add to David Waddleton’s thoughtful letter. I hope the new law will permit us to legalize our wishes regarding our...
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Letter: Gillian Bennett’s suicide raises disturbing questions
Re: “ ‘She didn’t want to be a burden’ ” (Gazette, Aug. 23) Your full-page tribute to Gillian Bennett’s suicide portrays this act as the logical and well-reasoned decision of an individual who has...
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Letter: Gillian Bennett made a sad but rational choice
Re: “ ‘She didn’t want to be a burden’ ” (Gazette, Aug. 23) Gillian Bennett’s decision to take her own life to avoid being an emotional and financial burden on the people she loved is in my...
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Letter: Until the elderly are cared for as well as sick children are, many...
Re: “People with dementia deserve care, not suicide support” (Opinion, Aug. 27) Physicians like Catherine Ferrier are certainly admirable, but they really need a wake up call. Instead of criticizing a...
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Letter: Glad to know I wasn’t the only horrified by coverage of the Gillian...
Re: “People with dementia deserve care, not suicide support” (Opinion, Aug. 27) Thank you to Catherine Ferrier for her thoughtful article about end of life care. I’m happy to know that I am not the...
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Letter: Experience with mother leads to support for assisted dying
“Do not go gentle into that good night.” — Dylan Thomas My mother did “not go gentle into that good night.” In 1963 at age 43, Mom was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer and was treated with a...
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Letter: Ombudsman’s report on care for the vulnerable is shocking
Re: “Ombudsman highlights gaps in care for the most vulnerable” (Gazette, Sept. 19) Overly long waiting periods for desperately needed homecare, deplorable living conditions in public seniors’...
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Letters: The Supreme Court and right-to-die or assisted-death legislation
Re: “If assisted death is a right, how can it not be for all?” (Andrew Coyne, Oct. 18) It boggles my mind that our government is still debating legalizing assisted death for the terminally ill when so...
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Tip Sheet: Community events this week
Monday World Prematurity Day. The Auxiliary of the Jewish General Hospital hosts an information and awareness session highlighting the achievements of the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit from...
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Gazette Midday: High court strikes down ban on doctor assisted suicide
Hello and welcome to montrealgazette.com and welcome to Midday. Here’s the rundown on some of the stories we’re following for you today. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court Friday struck down as...
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Letters: Supreme Court made the right call on right-to-die ruling
Bravo to the Supreme Court. With its momentous decision regarding assisted dying, it has handed a great gift and a sigh of relief to all Canadians who wish to avail themselves of the right to die. We...
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Editorial: The hard work now ahead on assisted dying
More than two decades after denying Sue Rodriguez the right to die, the Supreme Court of Canada has reversed course, unanimously striking down the laws prohibiting assisted dying in a historic ruling....
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Letters: Coming to terms with Supreme Court decision on right to die
I would like to suggest that any normal person who is afflicted with “ a grievous and irremediable medical condition … that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable,” must be emotionally exhausted...
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Letter: Supreme Court decision on right to die won't bring about Armageddon
Re: “Euthanasia can’t be the only way” and “Supreme Court erred in decision” (Letters to the Editor, Feb. 13) Like many others, I have been in favour of having existing laws changed so I can choose to...
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Editorial: No time to dither on assisted dying
Weeks after the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the laws that prohibit assisted death, the Conservative government has offered little indication about how it plans to proceed. The clock is ticking....
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Opinion: What about assisted suicide's impact on those left behind?
“No man is an island” said John Donne. We are not only radical individuals. Our lives and our deaths have profound consequences for those we love and those who love us. How we die is not solely our...
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Opinion: Palliative care should be offered sooner, not only at the end of life
As the long-running ad campaign for the Gazette told us, “Words matter.” Over time, some words take on meanings that can change dramatically how they “matter” to people. One of those words is...
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Opinion: A continuum of care, before a natural death
In Canada’s fragile discussions around end-of-life care, three statistics lie submerged in the rhetorical tension, dissension and fear. The first two numbers are from a 2013 Harris Decima Survey and a...
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