On the need to restart the debate on assisted suicide
On Jab. 15, 2010, Kathleen (Kay) Carter of North Vancouver had a date with death, an event she’d been seeking for months. She was 89 years old and nearly paralyzed by spinal stenosis. She made a last journey to Dignitas, a Swiss clinic devoted to assisted dying, accompanied by her daughter Lee Carter, Lee’s husband, Hollis Johnson, and other family. There, she drank a lethal drug, nibbled on a Swiss chocolate and drifted off to death. Her legacy is a renewed debate on the right to die. Carter and Johnson are now part of a challenge to the law prohibiting assisted suicide. It will be heard in the B.C. Supreme Court in November.
Q: Lee, tell me about Kay Carter, your mother.
LC: She was a fiercely independent person. She was well-read. She was interested in politics, social issues. She went to university and spent one year teaching elementary school in White Rock, B.C. And then she started having children, and had seven. There was no room for a job. She was married to my dad, Ron Carter, until he died in his mid-60s.
Q: In 2008, she was diagnosed with spinal stenosis. What did it mean to her quality of life?
LC: She told everybody herself in that first week to 10 days after she had made the decision. Then we met over at my sister’s house. One brother came over from Vancouver Island and the other brother, who’s down east, was on the telephone. I told them what I had learned, that we could go through Dignitas. It would be fairly costly. [Dignitas’s fee was about $12,000, and total expenses were $33,000.] One of the things I needed [for Dignitas] was a letter of support from whomever was willing to sign it. All seven of us signed the letter of support. Having said that, not everybody agreed with what she was doing, for different reasons. Two of them offered suggestions: “What if we got you a spot overlooking the ocean?” She loved the ocean. “What if we got you 24-hour care? Would you be happy with that?” She said, “Give me time to think about it.” She got back and said, “No, I don’t want to live like this anymore.
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