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theweaselkingKanata man plans and attends a wake tonight - his own.
Marcel Tremblay, a 78-year-old retired businessman will bid farewell to more than 50 friends and relatives at the party, to be held at an Ottawa-area hotel.
He'll enjoy a last meal of filet mignon with his family.
After hosting the wake, he'll accompany his closest family members back to his tidy brick bungalow in Kanata where he'll spend his last hour with loved ones.
Wearing his favourite blue cardigan and the most expensive white shirt and black pants he owns, Tremblay will sit in his comfy leather recliner and put a helium-inflated bag over his head.
The gas will painlessly kill him within five minutes.
Tremblay has a chronic, debilitating and incurable lung condition.
Tremblay isn't shy about admitting he hopes his death will have an impact because he feels strongly that people should have the right to decide when they die and they should have the right, if they are of sound mind, to have assistance if they need it.
He's believed in the right to die for about 20 years and has been a member of Dying with Dignity for nearly as long. He's also made financial contributions to the organization off and on since the mid-1980s.
"I'm really disgusted that something hasn't been done years ago about this," he said.
"I want to make as much noise about this as I can. Since I'm doing it anyway, why not make a lot of noise and let people know that there’s another way out of this situation if you go through all the proper channels. I've been through three psychiatrists and the police part of it."
He hopes at least some critics will see the justification in changing the laws after hearing his story.
"For me, it's the right decision," he said.
Marcel Tremblay, a 78-year-old retired businessman will bid farewell to more than 50 friends and relatives at the party, to be held at an Ottawa-area hotel.
He'll enjoy a last meal of filet mignon with his family.
After hosting the wake, he'll accompany his closest family members back to his tidy brick bungalow in Kanata where he'll spend his last hour with loved ones.
Wearing his favourite blue cardigan and the most expensive white shirt and black pants he owns, Tremblay will sit in his comfy leather recliner and put a helium-inflated bag over his head.
The gas will painlessly kill him within five minutes.
Tremblay has a chronic, debilitating and incurable lung condition.
Tremblay isn't shy about admitting he hopes his death will have an impact because he feels strongly that people should have the right to decide when they die and they should have the right, if they are of sound mind, to have assistance if they need it.
He's believed in the right to die for about 20 years and has been a member of Dying with Dignity for nearly as long. He's also made financial contributions to the organization off and on since the mid-1980s.
"I'm really disgusted that something hasn't been done years ago about this," he said.
"I want to make as much noise about this as I can. Since I'm doing it anyway, why not make a lot of noise and let people know that there’s another way out of this situation if you go through all the proper channels. I've been through three psychiatrists and the police part of it."
He hopes at least some critics will see the justification in changing the laws after hearing his story.
"For me, it's the right decision," he said.