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‘Then someone said that we were singing him home.’

Rest easy? Kate Mackrell witnesses two deaths

‘Then someone said that we were singing him home.’

by Kate Mackrell 14th February 2025

In summer 2009 my mother discovered that she had a fast-moving, incurable, form of lung cancer. She had lived in Switzerland for many years and she was appalled that assisted dying was not available in Canada.