Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Jen Stevens left this world on Tuesday, July 26, 2022. In today’s program, her daughter Darshan Stevens talks about Jen’s life, her medically assisted death (MAID) and the changes that came about throughout this process.

“My biggest grief was when my mom received her diagnosis of inflammatory breast cancer and my longest grief is probably what I was going into now, after she's passed,” explained Darshan.

“That initial shock and devastation of finding out what my mom had, I've never had a moment like that before in my life! I guess I've been quite privileged and lucky to not have any other close family members die. I was absolutely wrecked. I was incoherently babbling. My mom told me on the phone and she didn't know what it meant, and I just held it together when she told me. After I got off the phone with her, I looked it up. Then I knew how bad it really was, that there was very little chance that she would have more than two years.”

Jen lived in a cabin on her daughter’s property during the last decade of her life. They were very close, almost like partners. You can hear that intimacy in Darshan’s voice, as she lists some of the things she appreciates about her mom in the podcast above.