A Responsible Death

By Arthur W. Frank
Published on January 27, 2020

As debates continue about the decisions people make about how to die, I wish to draw wider attention to the death of Paul Drier, as reported in the Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, a few weeks ago. There was little extraordinary about his death. He was a widower, had suffered from multiple health problems, and had been on kidney dialysis for 18 months. Considered to be too ill to qualify for a transplant, he decided to end dialysis. He died in a hospice in a Toronto suburb. Two as...

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