The posts to the blog this year have been few and far between, and most of them have dealt with dying and death after a childhood friend passed away this summer, and my youngest sister also died, choosing medically assisted suicide rather than suffer grievously as her cancer ravaged her body.

I began to keep a grief journal as my sister chose to end curative treatments, which were making her life hell, and to avail herself of palliative care alone, noting that if her treatments made her feel so bad, who’d want to stick around for that?

As I wrote in my journal, I also Googled everything I could about her cancer as well as what medically assisted dying looked like. The government of Canada has many web pages devoted to the law that allows medically assisted dying, but the first hand accounts are few. So eventually, my journal morphed into a book that gives the reader a first row seat of what it is like to be a part of someone’s journey unto death, by choice.

The manuscript is done, edited, re-edited and I’m waiting on pre-readers to give feedback and reviews. I plan to publish by the end of January. My thanks to all those who have been a part of this process, who encouraged me and helped me bring this project to (near) completion.

I’ll update about the publish date very soon!