Canada debates assisted death laws
Audrey Parker was approved for medically assisted death, but Canadian law required that she be lucid at the time of death and her plans were knocked off track.
For weeks she had been preparing what she called her "beautiful death". A former television makeup artist she claimed to be in excruciating pain as cancer moved from her breast into her bones and brain.
She ended her life prior to her expressed plans, because Canadian law required that she be of sound mind at the time of death. Audrey Parker passed away on 1 November, with the help of a nurse, surrounded by friends and family. She was 57.
Critics say that Canada's legislation on assisted suicide pushes terminally ill people to choose between a premature death, or a painful one.
More than 3,700 have already ended their lives since the country's supreme court approved physician-assisted death in 2015.
Anyone over the age of 18 with a "grievous and irremediable medical condition" can apply for physician-assisted death.
Three countries permit people to plan their death beforehand regardless of their mental state at the point of death, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Belgium.
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