TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website to Canada@lemmy.ca · 16 days agoBeloved Canadian writer Robert Munsch has chosen a medically assisted death | Hanomansing Tonightwww.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkBeloved Canadian writer Robert Munsch has chosen a medically assisted death | Hanomansing Tonightwww.cbc.caTribblesBestFriend@startrek.website to Canada@lemmy.ca · 16 days agomessage-square14linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredefinitemaybe@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·16 days agoDementia 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.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoThere 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.
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.