‘I Shouldn’t Have to Beg for My Life’
A misunderstood disease and lack of support leaves one woman planning her medically assisted death. There may soon be more.
Moira Wyton is The Tyee’s health reporter. Follow her @moirawyton or reach her here. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES Madeline was an actor and playwright until chronic illness changed her life. Her old headshot, she says, ‘is the face of promise lost.’
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On a warm Saturday afternoon in May, Madeline was watching her friend’s young daughter open her birthday gifts. But as the girl sat under a tree in the park, tearing wrapping paper off a book about drawing horses, Madeline’s heart was breaking. “I don’t know if I will get to see her next birthday.”