A podcast on medical assistance in dying entitled Free death: 10 years of medical assistance in dying and piloted by Alain Gravel is offered on the OhDio platform of Radio-Canada and the journalist and public affairs host was the guest of Guy A. Lepage on Sunday evening (September 29) in the company of certain speakers, including Pénélope McQuade, who saw her mother request medical assistance in dying in heartbreaking circumstances. The latter agreed to deliver a powerful testimony, discussing her experience.
“I experienced it myself, I saw families in palliative care, because my mother left the hospital, then two and a half days later, it was medical assistance in dying. It was very quick, because we asked him: Do you want this as late as possible or as soon as possible? My mother was as soon as she wanted. Then, I saw families being torn apart. I saw families around, I saw families crying (…) There are relatives and families for whom it is a very traumatic event, I am convinced, if we do not share the values religious, philosophical, spiritual (…) in my case, the first time my mother spoke to me that she did not want to die in indignity, I was 12 years old (…) You never know how that happens is going to be until the hours, the days before. We never know (…) For us, I think it calmed us down, because we all saw how she died, there is no questioning, no vagueness. But, it’s true that there, I admit, that a year later, I am stuck with a kind of motton and many emotions and I don’t know what to do with them,” explains McQuade in particular.
The ballad Free death: 10 years of medical assistance in dying is available right here.
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