Personal Stories

• "As If Your Next Breath Could Be Your Last"
  Meet Fatima Fatima is a wife and mother in her thirties. She provides emotional support and guidance to her teenaged children and companionship to her husband. Five years ago, she was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, and her condition has progressed to the extent that she requires ventilator support twenty-four hours a day.
  

  Posted on: Thu, Aug 12, 2010

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• G. Kenneth Langford
  Ken did what many young men did in the war years – he joined the Canadian army (initially with the artillery, then with the infantry). In February, 1945 he was the platoon commander of the Calgary Highlanders, who were entangled in a battle at the village of Wyler on the border of Holland and Germany
  

  Posted on: Fri, May 28, 2010

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• Gary & Kristy Luker - "No Limits"
  Gary and Kristy Luker share their story in this 9 minute video: "No Limits".
  

  Posted on: Thu, Aug 12, 2010

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• Peter (Toronto, ON)
  I still remember that day – August 12, 1995. I was only 17 years old and my entire life changed. On a family vacation in Greece, I dove off a cliff. I had done it before – many times – but this time the tide had receded.
  

  Posted on: Fri, May 28, 2010

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• The Woman Of My Life
  June 20th, 2003, my parents felt extremely hopeless after I jumped off the 8th floor balcony and attempted to end my life in my 18th year. Seeing their only daughter lying motionless on the ground, they cried, they screamed and they did not know what else they could do.
  

  Posted on: Thu, Aug 12, 2010

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• Wayne MacDonald
  
  

  Posted on: Thu, Aug 12, 2010

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