Canadian team’s sepsis-testing device shows promise in fight against one of the world’s most common killers

A decade ago, Price Carter’s mother was at the forefront of a landmark legal battle that resulted in Canada’s highest court recognizing the right of consenting adults to access doctor-assisted deaths if they suffered “intolerable suffering.” Kay Carter lived with excruciating spinal stenosis and used a wheelchair. No doctor could legally help her die in Canada, so the 89-year-old travelled to Switzerland in 2010 where she ate chocolates before a physician gave her medication to die.