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SARS doctor Donald Low pleads for legalized assisted suicide in posthumous video
By Sheryl Ubelacker, The Canadian Press September 25, 2013
TORONTO - Dr. Donald Low, the infectious disease specialist who shepherded Toronto through the 2003 SARS crisis, made a videotaped appeal prior to his death for Canada to legalize assisted suicide and let people die with dignity.
The emotional video was shot eight days before Low's death from a brain tumour last week at age 68.
In the YouTube video produced by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and posted Tuesday, Low says he is not in pain but his vision, hearing and strength are waning and he worries what will happen before the end.
Low says he would like the option of choosing when he will die, before the disease renders him incapable of walking, swallowing food or using the bathroom without his family's assistance...
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SARS doctor Donald Low pleads for legalized assisted suicide in posthumous video
By Sheryl Ubelacker, The Canadian Press September 25, 2013
TORONTO - Dr. Donald Low, the infectious disease specialist who shepherded Toronto through the 2003 SARS crisis, made a videotaped appeal prior to his death for Canada to legalize assisted suicide and let people die with dignity.
The emotional video was shot eight days before Low's death from a brain tumour last week at age 68.
In the YouTube video produced by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and posted Tuesday, Low says he is not in pain but his vision, hearing and strength are waning and he worries what will happen before the end.
Low says he would like the option of choosing when he will die, before the disease renders him incapable of walking, swallowing food or using the bathroom without his family's assistance...