“That was the worst day of my life. That day and those moments, in that room, there’s nothing… that compares to it… The provider was sitting beside me, on a couch right next to me, injecting very large syringes of propofol, which looks like milk, and other drugs into my father and taking his life… A few seconds before, he’d been animated. And then he was a corpse.” 

That is a small excerpt from Christopher Lyon’s story of his father’s death by assisted suicide. In this short, five-minute video, Christopher documents the tragic and compelling story of his father’s unexpected death by assisted suicide. He shares his father’s complex character – a man who loved his family and yet was deeply troubled and struggled with depression. Christopher laments that when new assisted suicide laws were passed in Canada, his father saw them as a glorification of suicide. In his father’s mind, suicide became the “beautiful” way to escape his troubles. 

Christopher learned of his father’s scheduled death a mere two days before it occurred, and though he tried, every effort of persuasion was to no avail. Mr. Lyon was killed by lethal injection leaving behind a shocked, confused, and hurting family. In its tragedy and pain, Christopher’s story is a compelling example of the horror of assisted suicide and euthanasia laws.