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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
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Lenard Moro says his wife Robyn suffered greatly from Parkinson’s before a physician helped her end her life late last month.
PHOTO BY NATHANEL LOWE
Dying wish is finally granted
Right-to-die advocate Robyn Moro passes away at Tsawwassen home with help of physician IAN JACQUES
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Robyn Moro has finally found the peace she so desperately sought. The 68-year-old Tsawwassen woman, who was one of two individual plaintiffs in the B.C. Civil Liberties Association legal
challenge to Canada’s assisted dying laws, has died. Moro, who suffered from Parkinson’s, became a plaintiff in the case after doctors denied her request for a medically assisted death on the basis she did not meet the eligibility criterion of having a reasonably foreseeable natural death.
In a statement on the association’s website, Robyn’s husband Lenard Moro said his beautiful, brave wife died, with medical assistance, surrounded by love in their home on Aug. 31. “All of us who knew and treasured Robyn are grieving our loss. After 48 years of marriage, I am missing Robyn in every
moment,” wrote Lenard. “Amidst our grief we find comfort in the knowledge that Robyn is no longer suffering. After trying so many different treatments that didn’t work, Robyn was desperate for relief. “She wanted to pass with medical assistance in the spring of this year, but was told by her
doctors that she was not eligible because the current laws in Canada require that natural death be reasonably foreseeable before a doctor can assist with death. Doctors could not say that Robyn would die any time soon, so she was left to suffer indefinitely.” LEGAL: see Page 3
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