Photo: Jeanette Lodoen | CBC News | Saskatoon artist Jeanette Lodoen wanted Canadians to understand the realities of medically-assisted dying. She and her family granted CBC News unrestricted access to the weeks before, during and after her death.
The 87-year-old Saskatoon artist says she wants to be alert tomorrow — the day she’s scheduled her medically-assisted death.
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[Why is this article here? There is a song in this quote from Jeanette. Someone write it…]
“From the moment of birth to the moment of death, aging is inescapable,” read the exhibit notes. “In our society, older women are devalued through gender bias, ageism and consumerism. They are no longer youthful, so they are no longer useful.… This work is intended to be a celebration of these women.”
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Read the rest of Mrs. Lodoen’s story here:
https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/a-good-death-maid?
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OTHER NOTABLE MUSICIANS’ DEATHS
If you want to know more about any of the musicians we lost, please check them out at http://www.wikipedia.com
June 2023
11: Suna Kan, 86, Turkish violinist.
10: Yannis Markopoulos, 84, Greek composer (Young Aphrodites, Sin, Who Pays the Ferryman?), cancer.
9: Dinah Faust, 96, French actress and singer; Niel Immelman, 78, South African pianist.
8: Peter Belli, 79, Danish singer and actor (The Double Man, Truly Human, Koko-di Koko-da); Maria Peschek, 69, German cabaret artist, actress and playwright, heart attack.
7: Irma Capece Minutolo, 87, Italian operatic singer and actress (Neapolitans in Milan, Young Toscanini); Banani Ghosh, Indian Rabindra Sangeet singer.
6: Tony McPhee, 79, English guitarist (The Groundhogs), complications from a fall.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2023
Photo: The late courageous Jeanette Lodoen
Artist Jeanette Lodoen’s Wise Words – and Choice of When to Die // Other Notable Musicians Deaths
