The obituary last week may have caught some people’s attention: Bob Wilson, 71, and his wife Margi, 73, died on the same day, May 25, at Charlottetown’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

They planned it that way. 

“They went out on their own terms,” said their son Scott Wilson, sitting beside his sister Nicolle Hogan in her sunny kitchen in Cumberland, overlooking the sparkling Northumberland Strait. 

The doctors told the Wilsons’ three children they would be the first couple in P.E.I. to use medical assistance

This story was originally published on  CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-maid-assisted-dying-1.6050270?cmp=rss.

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