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The assisted suicide stories that don’t get told | STAT

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“In focusing on medical aid in dying solely as an end, we’ve missed out on the life that was lived,” writes physician Sai Rajagopal.

On Sept. 11, 1984, Céline Dion found God. At Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, she sang “Une Colombe” (“A Dove”) for 65,000 young people and Pope John Paul II. When the song ended, real doves were released. One landed on the pope’s shoulder and stayed there: a miracle, Céline claimed, that made her a believer. Josée Lamère was 20 that day. She had helped organize the visit as a youth adviser to the archbishop of Montreal, in a province that had spent 20 years dismantling the church’s grip on its hospitals, schools, and public life. Josée wasn’t watching the doves at Olympic Stadium that day.…

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