“Mom used to love playing cards, and we’d get the grand-kids together, and we’d come to the hospice. We’d be able to have a great, comfortable setting where we could all sit at the table, play cards and have fun,” Mary’s son, Greg MacPherson, said.
It’s this kind of death–surrounded by love and comforted by palliative care–that leaders of more than 30 Canadian Christian, Muslim and Jewish faith groups say they’re trying to protect. In October, they stood at Parliament Hill to release a declaration, expressing opposition to physician-assisted suicide, while calling for leaders to ensure all Canadians have access to quality end of life care.
Full article: Global News