Complicated gratitude: a letter to my mother’s physician

Cooper thanks the physician who administered medical assistance in dying to her mother. The physician relieved her mother of the endless breathlessness caused by her endstage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He enabled her to rest and slumber peacefully for the first time in months, if not yea...

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Published in:Canadian Medical Association journal (CMAJ) Vol. 192; no. 4; pp. E97 - E98
Main Author: Cooper, Rachel B.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Canada Elsevier Inc 27.01.2020
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Subjects:
Assisted suicide
Death & dying
Family - psychology
Humanities
Humans
Internal Medicine
Letters
Mothers
Palliative care
Personal experiences
Physician-Patient Relations
Physicians
Right to Die
Suicide, Assisted - psychology
Toronto Ontario Canada
Canada
ISSN:0820-3946, 1488-2329, 1488-2329
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Summary:Cooper thanks the physician who administered medical assistance in dying to her mother. The physician relieved her mother of the endless breathlessness caused by her endstage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He enabled her to rest and slumber peacefully for the first time in months, if not years. He fulfilled his professional duties ethically, within the parameters of the legislation. He allowed her mother to have a good death. An ethical death. A compassionate death, free of the suffering she experienced in life.
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ISSN:0820-3946
1488-2329
1488-2329
DOI:10.1503/cmaj.191259