{"id":7518,"date":"2017-05-23T10:57:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T17:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7518"},"modified":"2018-03-06T18:31:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T02:31:28","slug":"how-to-end-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7518","title":{"rendered":"How to End a Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A year since assisted suicide became legal, only a small number of physicians are willing to perform the procedure, and their numbers are shrinking. Taking a life is harder than they thought<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Toronto Life<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Nicholas Hune-Brown<\/p>\n<p>The first thing April Poelstra noticed was the hitch in her father&#8217;s shoulder. Jack&#8217;s left arm was drooping, hanging limply at his side, as if he didn&#8217;t have the muscle to cinch it into alignment. It was the fall of 2015, and Jack was living in Frankville, Ontario, waking up at 4:30 a.m. to plow roads and work odd jobs for a construction company. . . Jack tried to downplay his shoulder problems. He visited his doctor for a battery of tests, but always changed the subject when April pressed for details.\u00a0. . .In early 2016, her fears were validated: Jack was diagnosed with ALS. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease . . .On June 17, Bill C-14 became law, making medical assistance in dying, or MAID, legal for mentally competent Canadians. Jack Poelstra was overjoyed.\u00a0. . [<a href=\"https:\/\/torontolife.com\/city\/life\/doctors-assist-suicide-like-end-life\/\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year since assisted suicide became legal, only a small number of physicians are willing to perform the procedure, and their numbers are shrinking. Taking a life is harder than they thought Toronto Life Nicholas Hune-Brown The first thing April Poelstra noticed was the hitch in her father&#8217;s shoulder. Jack&#8217;s left arm was drooping, hanging &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7518\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to End a Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,32,162,9],"tags":[2587,572,100,385,1560,3343,1412,2713,2560,3340,384,3342,293,3327,3341],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-canada","category-euthanasia","category-news","tag-canadian-association-of-maid-assessors-and-providers-camap","tag-canadian-medical-association","tag-canadian-society-of-palliative-care-physicians","tag-college-of-physicians-and-surgeons-of-ontario","tag-dying-with-dignity-canada","tag-gerald-ashe","tag-james-downar","tag-jeff-blackmer","tag-natalia-novosedlik","tag-nicholas-hune-brown","tag-ontario","tag-pharmacist-technicians","tag-referral","tag-ruben-van-coevorden","tag-university-health-network-toronto-ont-canada"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>How to End a Life - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7518\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to End a Life - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A year since assisted suicide became legal, only a small number of physicians are willing to perform the procedure, and their numbers are shrinking. 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