A Manitoba woman received medical assistance in dying on Oct. 3 because she was unable to receive adequate medical care at home and did not want to move into a health-care facility as an alternative.
Sathya Dhara Kovac, a resident of Winnipeg, suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a nervous system disease that progressively affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord and eventually causes loss of muscle control.
“Ultimately it was not a genetic disease that took me out, it was a system,” Kovac wrote in her obituary, published Oct. 5.
“There are not enough supports and services promoting quality of life and Independence for those who are not healthy and able-bodied.”…