Compassion & Choices Storyteller Featured in Minnesota Women’s Press
Feb 12, 2021
Grand Marais, Minnesota resident Carrie Framsted lost her wife, Monica Schliep, to pancreatic cancer in February 2020. Watching Monica suffer in her final days, they regretted that they did not live in a state that authorized medical aid in dying.
Since Carrie’s death, Monica has been advocating to help advance a bill in the Minnesota legislature to make this safe, compassionate medical practice a reality for other terminally ill Minnesotans.
She recently wrote about her experience in the February 2021 issue of the Minnesota Women’s Press, saying:
“If a person wants to make the decision to choose the timing of their inevitable, impending death, I believe it is their right. It is not something to be decided by others…
“I will continue to actively pursue education about this legislation, and awareness of my wife’s story, to recognize this right for any human being who wants to make their own choice — which authorizes medication from a doctor to self-ingest when there are fewer than six months of life remaining.”
Read all of Carrie’s essay here on womenspress.com
