Uncategorized – LIVING WITH DIGNITY

“My Body, My Choice”: Tricky territory

9 May 202310 May 2023

South of the border, half the population lost a constitutional right to privacy in health care when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, which has for over two decades…

Thoughts on a Slippery Road

I recently dug up this old post from my travel blog, written in May, 2016 -- about a year after the Carter decision, before the Feds passed Bill C-14. Someone…

A Hopeful Sign

17 Dec 20225 Jan 2023

This week, Justice Minister Lametti announced that his party will apply for an extension on the deadline for inclusion of mental illness in the MAID regime. Let's just take a…

They’re Finished Listening …

The "Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying" wound up its "Statutory Review of the Provisions of the Criminal Code Relating to Medical Assistance in Dying and their Application"…

ACEs AND MAID

What are ACEs, you ask? I'm so glad you did. Keep reading! (There's a really helpful video coming up ...) Last time around, I wrote about the need for research…

Research!

12 Nov 202212 Nov 2022

I recently asked a disabled friend of mine, how can LWD actually help? What does your community need? Her answer was swift and sure: RESEARCH!! I must admit, I was…

We Raised our Voices. Will You?

2 Sep 202223 Sep 2022

LWD's submission presented online to the Special Joint Committee in late August is copied below. We are sharing it here with our readers in hopes that each of you will…

System Failures

21 Aug 202222 Aug 2022

The Third Annual Federal MAID report offers some statistics about last year's Track 1 deaths -- i.e. the "reasonably foreseeable natural deaths" [RFND's] for which MAID was originally legalized --…

Canada’s NRA?

25 May 202230 May 2023

It was May 24, 2022 — one year ago, just after LWD was launched. I was watching an American news channel reporting on yet another "worst” school shooting, this time…