# Why this daughter broke the law to help her mother die | Part 1 of 2

https://mins.news/en/video/97770

- CBC News, 2026-10-13 10:00 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWF_ivnvT4o

> In 2009, 89-year-old Kay Carter, who had painful degenerative spinal stenosis, asked her daughter Lee to help her die. Because assisted suicide was illegal in Canada, they covertly traveled to Switzerland, where Kay took a lethal barbiturate and said goodbye. Lee later went public with her mother's story, prompting a court fight over doctor-assisted dying.

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