In hospital near the end of her life, Nicole Gladu, journalist, crusader and fiercely loyal friend, did not use medical assistance in dying, even though she had won a court battle with Ottawa, extending the right to MAID to those, like her, whose natural death was not reasonably foreseeable.
“She was like my second mother,” said Mathieu Piché-Messier, a new father whose parents, retired Quebec Superior Court judge Ginette Piché and lawyer Pierre Messier, considered her as family. “We have just exchanged one angel for another.” “It’s absolutely deplorable that these people who meet the law’s criteria – a serious and irremediable illness with intolerable suffering – need to go to court to have their rights met,” Mr. Ménard told a news conference at the time.
In an interview with The Canadian Press in December, 2020, Ms. Gladu dismissed those who claimed the law would leave people with disabilities vulnerable to being pressured into asking for MAID, saying they were paternalistic and incapable of understanding what living with physical pain means. “When we were in court, she was so impressive and determined,” he said. “You could see her getting tired but would still give interviews, gracious, intense and straightforward.”
In the late 1960s, the two friends began to study at the University of Montreal, but Ms. Gladu spent little more than a year there. With a summer internship at Radio-Canada, she began to home in on what she wanted to do with her life, and she started work that fall for Montréal-Matin, a daily newspaper that folded in 1978.
Just don't read the nasty comments posted by so-called disability activists who don't believe in disabled people having any rights to self-determination.
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