Audrey Parker Dies Today - Medical Assistance In Dying

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Audrey Parker is a woman with a plan. With stage 4 breast cancer that has spread to her bones and her brain, she has decided to end the suffering on her own terms. Today, Audrey Parker dies through the service known as MAID (medical assistance in dying) and she is doing it with grace. Audrey is and will forever be one of the most gracious and beautiful guests we've ever had on our show and we are a million times more rich in LIFE for taking some time to talk to her about death.

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0:33.7	Hello, everyone. Jeremy here from Sick Boy Podcast, and you might be wondering why we've dropped an episode today,
0:41.1	which is not a Monday.
0:42.6	Well, the reason for that is because today is a very special episode.
0:45.7	This is a conversation that we recorded almost a month ago at Dalhousie
0:51.3	with a group of budding young med students in Halifax.
0:57.8	And our guest was this beautiful woman named Audrey Parker.
1:03.1	Audrey lived with cancer.
1:06.9	And she is someone who signed up to take advantage of made, a system here in Canada that
1:14.8	stands for medical assistance in dying.
1:18.4	And today is the day that Audrey has gone through with that process.
1:29.0	Audrey died today.
1:34.8	And so this conversation is a heartfelt one.
1:36.0	It is a beautiful one.
1:39.9	It is one that we feel is extremely important.
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