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.
Canada has the most permissive assisted death law in the world, and will be expanding eligibility criteria further next year.
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….