Beloved Canadian writer Robert Munsch has chosen a medically assisted death | Hanomansing Tonight
What a sad news. Take care Mister Munch your stories will live on
💔 I understand why, but damn that hurts 😔 Thanks for the wonderful memories, sir 💜
Dementia and Parkinson's. That sucks.
My kiddos love listening to his self-narrated stories on Spotify. ("OK Google. Play Robert Munsch stories.") His love for children is so clear in his interactions with them in those recordings.
There is a 50% risk of dementia over 65, it will cost Canada hundreds of billions in care.
But since the Chretien government, biomedical research budgets on this have been in retraction, because voters don't care.
This is going to be one of the biggest legacies of the current Republican administration's Project 2025 agenda. Not only the direct cuts to research, but also the massive cuts to educating the next generation of researchers. Also related: banning/limiting whole swathes of research pathways, like stem cells and mRNA (as high profile examples).
Totally agreed, though; primary research is critical for solving most (all?l of the major problems we are facing. Healthcare, of course, but we're on a knife edge of major Earth cycles breaking down, accelerating anthropogenic climate change. The collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is terrifying, as is runaway carbon escape from defrosting tundra. And the primary research trying to solve these existential crises is a budgetary rounding error.
Holy shit. This hurts.
Edit: upoin reflection, at least we're in a nation where he won't have to needlessly suffer more than necessary. I suppose the alternative is worse.
Canadian Republicans want to end MAID but I am willing to die on that hill seeing the alternative and seeing how peaceful MAID can be for families and the person affected. These ghouls want to enforce horrific deaths.
Having seen my father die of alzheimers after years and years of awefulness. I did not cry at the funeral. I was cried out from my crying for his plight in life. I was happy he finally had respite. I am so jealous of the option.
I think you mean Canadian Conservatives.
Republicanism in Canada or Canadian Republicanism is a movement for the replacement of the monarchy of Canada and a monarch as head of state with a parliamentary republic and a democratically-selected Canadian as head of state.
Other factions want to extend MAID to treatable psychological conditions simply because so many people are needlessly suffering without treatment. It's cheaper to put someone on ODSP for 14k a year than it is to treat them; this is just the next logical step.
He had a rough life, had his demons but he always made my kids so happy with his books
Honestly the fact he's made it this far is insane in itself if you look up the shit he's dealt with.
Sad news about the man who brought us the saddest kids book of all time
Life is happiness and sadness together. I still hear his voice when I think of the name Mortimer from when I heard hime read the books on tv growing up.
Well, that was the shortest article I've ever read.
Sad news.
Growing up his stories were such a big part of my childhood, and they were lovingly passed down to my cousins and my nephews and nieces. They’ve shaped the hearts of generations and helped add so much love and happiness to the world.
I hope the best for him and his loved ones.