On the right to assisted death: Go carefully into that good night

In my mother's case, the decision to allow her to die when she wanted would have been a godsend. In my father's case, it would have robbed him of four quality years of life.
Andrew Caddell's parents, Philip and Elga, were known by all as Pip and Duckie. They had been sweethearts for six decades before Ms. Caddell died in 1995 after suffering a stroke.
On a May afternoon in 1995 I was sitting with my father in the living room of his apartment in Montreal, when my sister called in tears to say my mother had died. A few days earlier, he had decided not to take any extraordinary means to save her, as the stroke she suffered two months before had rob...

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