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of the most intense days of their lives, a very emotional time in their lives, with a lot of family dynamics going on. and i m there as a knowledgeable guide to help them through this incredibly intense and natural event. and all of those things can be said at the end of life as well. why did i make that change? i had a number of. it s not a very linear line. a number of issues. i wanted to be home a little bit more. i was finding after 20 years of providing maternity care and delivering babies, that being 2a hours in hospital and recovering from that time was becoming physically harder. i wanted to be around before my kids left. i was looking for a shift, and i d been following the assisted dying debate in canada for 30 years since i was in medical school, and i believe very, very strongly in patient autonomy and what we call patient centred care. and i found that the idea of assisted dying was really focused on that. and i wondered who would do this work? and i felt that i could do t