Archive - Oct 11, 2012

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Introducing Sean Davison's Before We Say Goodbye: Helping My Mother Die

This entry was posted on 11 October 2012.

Sean Davison made headlines in 2010 when he was arrested for aiding his mother's death. Eighty-four years old and terminally ill with cancer, medical doctor and psychiatrist Pat Ferguson wants nothing more than for her life, which no longer brings her joy, to be over. But when her ailing body refuses to let go, she asks her son Sean to do the unthinkable: to help her to die.