Canada debates offering physician-assisted death to patients who are not terminally ill
(World News USA)

LONDON, Ontario - For Ron Posno, the signs were piling up that something wasn´t quite right. He had graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering but suddenly struggled with simple arithmetic. The retired special-education teacher´s handwriting had become a scribble. The `homing pigeon` instinct that served him as a pilot was beginning to deteriorate. His sophisticated vocabulary was vanishing. Then the 80-year-old got his diagnosis: mild cognitive impairment - sometimes a precursor to dementia. `Everything I took 75 years to learn, I´m unlearning,` Posno said. He had watched as the spouses of friends struggled with dementia. He thought about the end stages - and decided he didn´t want...