Roger Foley's Assisted Life Fund

Hello, my name is Roger Foley. I need your help.

I am the patient who has received international attention for my legal case, making it into Forbes Magazine and part of CTV's top 5 most resonating news stories  last year.

I am the young man who is dying of Cerebellar Ataxia and substantially suffering while the Health Care system and Government is doing nothing to relieve my intolerable suffering, and denying me proper and necessary health care. They are trying to take my life away from me by a so called Medically Assisted Death, referred to as MAiD.

I have been dehumanized, threatened, attacked, and abused, and my life has been completely devalued just because I am a person with disabilities.

Greater value is placed on access to MAiD than access to alternatives that could alleviate a patients intolerable suffering. MAiD is being presented to patients as a preferred treatment option rather than the very last resort once all other avenues have been exhausted.



I realize that the outcome of my Constitutional legal challenge  to require that all efforts to provide assisted life, and all appropriate safeguards be put in place before offering assisted death has wide reaching ramifications for other vulnerable Canadians. It will also effect citizens internationally too as the trends in one country can easily spread globally.



I continue to fight for my life in court. However the Defendants continue to deny and delay the case, and put up unnecessary barriers.

In order for me to continue this fight for my life I need your help. I have set up a GOFUNDME page linked to my website AssistedLife.ca 

Funds received from this account will be used to help me pay for the mounting legal expenses. These costs do not show signs of letting up anytime soon. Any funds unused after the completion of the legal expenditures will be donated to organizations that support survivors of abuse and neglected persons with disabilities.

I will provide periodic updates on AssistedLife.ca 



I am hoping you can support me with a donation. My life and the lives of so many others depend on it.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Roger Foley.

Links:
CTV National News: Chronically ill man releases audio of hospital staff offering assisted death 
Global News Radio ON Point w/ Alex Pierson interview w/ Ken Berger 
Forbes Magazine: Time To Terminate "Assisted Dying"  by Steve Forbes