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SARS doctor Donald Low's posthumous plea for assisted suicide

In an impassioned YouTube video shot eight days before he died of a brain tumour, Dr. Donald Low, the microbiologist who helped guide Toronto through the 2003 SARS crisis, makes a plea for Canada to change the law to allow assisted suicide.

In YouTube video, he says there's a need for 'dying with dignity'

In an impassioned YouTube video shot eight days before he died of a brain tumour, Dr. Donald Low,the microbiologist credited with guiding Toronto through the 2003 SARS crisis, makes a final plea for Canada to change the law to allow assisted suicide.

I know Im going to die, what worries me is how Im going to die, the 68-year-old Low says in the video.

He was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer seven months ago anddied on Sept. 18.Low wasthe microbiologist inchief at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital and a professor at the University of Toronto.

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