Canadian woman suffering from long Covid applies for assisted suicide
- spucmarketing
- Dec 7, 2022
- 1 min read
A Canadian woman experiencing ongoing long Covid symptoms more than two years after catching the virus has applied for voluntary euthanasia.
Tracey Thompson, a Toronto resident in her 50s, told CTV News she had begun the process of applying for Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), a procedure that first became legal in Canada in 2016, due to her enduring illness and lack of financial support.
The former chef has lost 26 months of income, has no foreseeable ability to return to work, and expects to run out of money in about five months.
"(MAiD) is exclusively a financial consideration," she said. "My choices are basically to die slowly and painfully, or quickly. Those are the options that are left."
Thompson said in addition to severe fatigue, her symptoms included being unable to read books or text longer than a tweet, blurring vision around sunset, difficulty digesting food, altered sense of taste and smell, difficulty breathing, and scars on her heart from swelling due to myocarditis.
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