In 2020, 7,595 cases of medical assistance in dying (MAID) were registered in Canada, up almost 35 per cent from the year before. As medically assisted death becomes more common it only makes sense that more and more children are going to have to deal with it.
Illustrated by Emilie Leduc, Last Week tells the story of a death with dignity through the eyes of a child.“I lay awake. I did the math. In four hundred and thirty-two thousand seconds, this last week will be over,” says the child as they reflect at the end of the second day.
“My connection to this is really via my partner, whose name is Bill Pechet. Bill’s mother Judy, in 2016, chose a medically assisted death and she was an amazing person. She was very vibrant,” said Richardson. “She was 92 when she died, and she had great, great, great clarity of mind and her body was giving up and she made this informed decision.”
“So, people sat around, and they talked, and they talked, and they talked, and they laughed, and they laughed, and they laughed and told stories and they eat, and they eat, and they eat. And then it was done. I just thought what a great thing.” “I was writing for adult audiences then someone asked me if I wanted to write for children,” said Richardson. “My first job as a grown-up person was back in 1980 working as a children’s librarian. I spent about five or six years kind of immersed in that world. I knew the literature. I kept track of it a little bit after. I know more or less what is going on.”
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