While funeral homes are places where you usually end up after you die, Patrick Savoie’s father-in-law, Michel Brunelle, decided to die in one instead.
“Michel had been suffering from emphysema for a very, very long time,” said Savoie. “As time was passing by, his ability to move, his ability to function was getting harder and harder.”
Brunelle chose a doctor-assisted death, but his family wanted him to die in a facility that had the amenities and the right space in which to comfortably say goodbye, said Savoie.
Brunelle’s wife didn’t want to live with the memory of her husband dying in their bed at home, Savoie said. A
