If you’re like most people, then you would want to make the most of the time you have on this earth. If you fall ill with an incurable disease, you may not want to lie in a hospital bed hooked up to beeping monitors and tubes, just waiting to die. Instead, you want to spend your last days in the presence of loved ones in the comfort of your own home with all our healthcare wishes respected.
Louise J. did just that. After a full life helping others as a union leader and peace activist, Louise received a diagnosis of metastatic cancer after chemotherapy failed to stop an aggressive liver tumour. Though some family members begged the 90-year-old matriarch to undergo more chemotherapy, she decided that she didn’t want to deal with any more doctors. Instead, she wanted to take her first trip out of the country to see a little bit of the world she had worked so hard to save.
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