by KathyKastner | Jan 27, 2024 | Blog, Featured
I was nervous about this new role I’d signed up for: volunteering to be one of two witnesses to make official a patient’s request for medical assistance in dying.This involves witnessing the paperwork necessary for a MAID (Medical Aid in Dying) request. The...
by KathyKastner | Mar 17, 2023 | Blog, Featured
This is Sam, my father-in-law. He’s going into his 103 year, and is still smiling. Yet every night, his last words before falling asleep: God, please let me die He’s not suffering in any major way: the swollen ankles and chronically congested chest...
by KathyKastner | Dec 30, 2019 | Personal Stories
My bro died at home, on Palliative/Hospice Care Although we did not know it at the time, my brother’s ‘end’ started November 2018, with a brain tumour diagnosis. Surgery before Christmas that year was deemed ‘successful’ and John was in...
by KathyKastner | Jun 16, 2018 | Blog, Information
What if what you want until you die can’t be done exactly as you imagined? Consider it an opportunity for creative thinking. No ocean in sight? Make an ocean sounds playlist Ocean pictures: on the wall or on a digital photo album Video the beach and ocean, make a...
by KathyKastner | May 29, 2018 | Blog, Kathy Kastner
Medically Assisted Dying When medical assistance in dying – MAID (also referred to as Medically Assisted Dying – MAD and Physician Assisted Dying – PAD ) was just a twinkle in eye in most of North America, I began my layman’s journey into learning...