The Life and Death of Gloria Taylor : Assisted Suicide

MacIntyre, Linden (host). Weinstein, Tamar (director). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Added Author). Host: MacIntyre, Linden. (Cast).

Summary: Gloria Taylor, a B.C. woman stricken with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease), was the first Canadian ever to win the right to ask a doctor for help in dying. The Fifth Estate chronicles her struggle with mortality as she fights publicly to change the law over the course of what would be the last year of her life. This documentary hears from those on both sides of the debate over what some call “dying with dignity.”

Record details

Physical Description: 1 streaming video (42 min 10 sec)
remote
videorecording
electronic
Publisher: Toronto : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2012

Content descriptions

Restrictions on Access Note:	Access restricted to Curio.ca subscribers
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director: Weinstein, Tamar.
Participant or Performer Note:	Host: MacIntyre, Linden.
System Details Note:	Available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://curio.ca/en/video/the-life-and-death-of-gloria-taylor-assisted-suicide-3025/
Language Note:	In English. Closed-captioned.
Source of Description Note:	Source of description from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation