Tag: End of life care

Quebec Forces Palliative Care Homes to Offer Assisted Suicide

A new Quebec law that mandates palliative care facilities to provide medical assistance in dying has drawn criticism from euthanasia opponents and a palliative care advocate. Bill 11 to expand medical assistance in dying (MAiD) passed in Quebec’s national assembly on June 7.  In a June 5 post online, Living with Dignity (Vivre Dans La…


Learn Your Parents’ Financial Plans ASAP

My mom died at age 61, when I was 31. Seeing her headstone in a field of others smacked me with a brutal, if obvious fact: Everyone, including everyone’s parents, will die. I promise I’m not trying to depress you. I want to prepare you, as this loss can happen sooner than you’d expect. And…