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Price Carter is planning to die this summer.

The 68-year-old has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. He knows it will take his life eventually; before it does, he intends to die on his own terms with his family at his side.

“I was told at the outset, ‘This is palliative care, there is no cure for this.’ So that made it easy,” he said in an interview from his home in Kelowna, B.C.

Carter said he’s always known that medical assistance in dying would be an option “that I would exercise if I could, if needed to.”

He has that option, in large part, because of his mother.

Lee Carter, daughter of Kay Carter, speaks at a press conference on doctor-assisted death legislation, Bill C-14, while her brother, Price Carter, listens on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in April 2016. Lee and Price led the fight after their mother died in Switzerland. (Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press)

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