Audrey Parker is posthumously pleading for Canada’s assisted dying law to change.
“I’m grateful to live in Canada, a country where I can choose my death, but the law has forced me to play a cruel game of chicken,” the Halifax woman said in a video released Wednesday.
Parker died with medical assistance on Nov. 1. She was 57.
The video by Dying with Dignity Canada was posted four years after the Supreme Court of Canada ruled incompetent vulnerable people aren’t eligible for medical assistance in dying.
“People like me who have already been assessed and approved are dying earlier than necessary because of this poorly thought out law,” said Parker. “I’m asking you to speak out for the rights of suffering Canadians who, like me, have already been assessed and approved for medical assistance in dying.”
Parker, who recorded the video days before her death, urges people to contact their member of Parliament.
Dying with Dignity Canada has also launched a petition addressed to Justice Minister David Lametti.
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