Winnipeg woman who chose to die with medical assistance said struggle for home care help led to decision | CBC News LoadedSathya Dhara Kovac, 44, died on Monday through the medical assistance in dying program. She had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and told loved ones she wanted to live longer, but felt she had no other choice given barriers she faced getting enough home care support.
"Ultimately it was not a genetic disease that took me out, it was a system," Kovac wrote in an obituary to loved ones. "It's hard because mentally she was there.... She accepted the changes in her body, but without enough support, how could anyone keep going?" said Brantnall, who supported Kovac three days a week over the past year and a half.
She said Kovac did not tell the panel of professionals who assessed her application for a medically assisted death that she was driven to seek MAID due to a lack of adequate home care support, fearing that if she shared her full rationale they would deny her. Applicants have to have a "serious and incurable disease, illness or disability, an advanced state of decline that is irreversible and that is causing intolerable suffering," the health authority said in a statement. It confirmed Kovac met the eligibility criteria.
"She cared about neighbours and people and community and she wanted others to care too, and sometimes that didn't happen. So, she was very hurt by that." "We recognize that there is more work to be done," Stefanson said. "That's exactly why we set up the ministry of seniors."
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