I would really want to have my whole family with me. Thinking about those issues in advance helps save time for more important things when people are going through the dying process, says McDougall. For someone who knows they've got two or three weeks before dying, there are a lot of important things to be done. When someone knows that, they have a golden opportunity that people who die suddenly never have. They have time to do and say the little things they always meant to, but never had time for.
Some people take the opportunity to pass something on, or to heal an old wound.
I'd like to believe, and I do believe, that we in Canada are ahead of the Americans in this area. From that perspective, I hope that we never lose the kind of health care system we have in Canada.