Physician-Assisted Suicide Dr. Donald Low was a Canadian microbiologist known for his role in battling the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Toronto in 2003. He died September 18, 2013, from a brain tumour. Eight days before his death, he created a YouTube video in which he made an impassioned plea to legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients in Canada. He said, “I’m going to die, but what worries me is how I’m going to die…I wish [assisted suicide opponents] could live in my body for 24 hours …” (Low, 2013).

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