with dignity...

Yesterday's newspaper carried the story of Marc Weide's mother's last days, who was diagnosed with a terminally ill cancer, and the article was titled "I'm going to die on Monday at 6.15pm".

Dying of any kind, is never going to be easy. Even when it is euthanasia. Even when it is legal. The article documents the surviving family member's perspective. His and his family's struggle when his mom's decision.

This was how he ended the diary article, "My main regret is that there were such clashes between us in the run-up to her death. Perhaps if we had challenged Mum more over the years, keeping her ever-increasing demands in check, we could have been at peace as a family, instead of at war over shoes and toilets, right to the bitter end."