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TORONTO — The infectious disease doctor who guided Toronto through the 2003 SARS crisis made an appeal prior to his death for Canada to change the law and legalize assisted suicide.

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Dr. Donald Low made his plea in an emotional video shot eight days before his death last week from a brain tumour. He was 68.

In the video posted Tuesday on YouTube, Low says he does not fear death and is not in pain but worries about what will happen before the end.

“I’m going to die, but what worries me is how I’m going to die. Am I going to end up being paralyzed and have to be carried from the bathroom to the bed, am I going to have trouble swallowing…things like that. What the end is going to look like, that’s what bothers me the most.” he says in the video.

Low says he would like the option of choosing when he will die, before the disease renders him incapable of walking, swallowing food or using the bathroom without assistance.