!st Prize!

Thank you so much to Navigating the Change for offering the opportunity. Warning, this article deals with end of life, medical assistance in dying (MAID)

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VJ

Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

26 thoughts on “!st Prize!”

  1. Just wonderful, VJ. So emotional to read, and just so beautiful, your mother’s final day. What a privilege to choose your day and say goodbye to everyone just the way you want to and to leave with everyone’s blessing and with such readiness. It really choked me up. Congratulations for winning, absolutely well-deserved 🩷

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    1. Thanks Eilene. I sat in on the assessment process with my mom, and when the doctors explained how it all works, and that she was in control, it was as if a great weight had been lifted off of her.

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      1. I can imagine. I want that option available for whomever is in need of it. Someday it could be me or my husband. He spent many hours collecting signatures to get the law on the Colorado books.

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  10. I really enjoyed reading this, VJ. I have a clearer understanding of MAID and the thinking that can take you to that decision. We are lucky in Canada that we have a chance to die without pain and with dignity and love. And the privilege for family and friends to be with you. I think it would help with grieving. And you make such a strong point of having control at a time we fear we will have none. Thank you!

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