2026-07-09 from cbc.ca
Years into a diagnosis of Lewy body dementia, Clarke Eusanio was living a nightmare.
"He would phone us, frantic, because [he thought] somebody was chasing him with a chainsaw trying to kill him. Bears were chasing him," said Tanya Secord, Eusanio's daughter, who lives in Revelstoke, B.C.
Visual hallucinations are a common symptom of the condition. Eventually, Secord said, he forgot how to function and couldn't eat or drink.
"He ended up with aspiration pneumonia and drowned for five days until he finally passed," she said. He was 83 years old.
After watching him suffer, Secord grew adamant: She wanted to plan her own death.
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