Notes

Background

1.     Ed Koren, The New Yorker, November 27, 2017, p. 77.

Walking with Coffins

1.     Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of (Toronto: Vintage Canada Edition, 2009), p. 65.

2.     Ibid., p. 126.

3.     See the website deathcafe.com.

4.     Robert Matas, “An Artist in an Unlikely Residence,” The Globe and Mail, May 28, 2005.

5.     Jen St. Denis, “Remembering All the Souls at a Vancouver Graveyard,” Metro News, October 28, 2016, http://www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2016/10/28/all-souls-at-mountain-view-offers-place-to-reflect.html.

6.     See the website https://nightforallsouls.com.

7.     Erika Hayasaki, The Death Class: A True Story about Life (New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2014), p. 45.

8.     Quoted in Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of, p. 205.

9.     Jody Porter, “Gord Downie’s Secret Path Brings Hope to Chanie Wenjack’s Family, 50 Years after Boy’s Death,” CBC News, October 18, 2016, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/wenjack-family-response-secret-path-1.3808589.

10.   See the website www.downiewenjack.ca.

Changing Our Lives

1.     As described by Mrs. Cratchit, mother of Tiny Tim, in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (London: Harper Press, 2010), p. 59.

2.     Ibid., p. 99.

3.     Ibid., p. 82.

4.     Ibid., p. 39.

5.     Ibid., p. 40.

6.     Mari Ruti, The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), p. 9.

7.     George F. MacDonald, Ninstints: Haida World Heritage Site (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1990), p.1.

8.     From an information placard in The Bill Reid Rotunda, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC.

9.     Bill Reid, “Curriculum Vitae 1,” Solitary Raven: The Essential Writings of Bill Reid, Robert Bringhurst (ed.) (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2009), p. 115.

10.   Doris Shadbolt, “The Will to Be Haida,” Bill Reid and Beyond: Expanding on Modern Native Art, Karen Duffek and Charlotte Townsend-Gault (eds.) (Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2004), p. 35.

11.   Miles Richardson, “On Its Own Terms,” Bill Reid and Beyond: Expanding on Modern Native Art, Karen Duffek and Charlotte Townsend-Gault (eds.) (Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2004), p. 22.

12.   Brad Gooch, Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love (New York: HarperCollins, 2017), p.123.

13.   Ibid., p. 174.

14.   Ibid., p. 124.

15.   Ibid., p. 185.

16.   The Essential Rumi, Translation by Coleman Barks, New Expanded Edition (New York: Harper One, 2004), p. xv.

17.   Ibid., p. 41.

Living Our Legacies

1.     For more on these athletes, see Melissa Renwick, “How the Surfing Sisterhood Helped Put Tofino on the Map,” The Globe and Mail, March 7, 2018, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/surfing-sisterhood-of-tofino/article38231777/.

2.     Kim Gray, “Surfer Girls Find Nirvana Catching Waves in Tofino,” Calgary Herald, July 17, 2014, http://www.calgaryherald.com/travel/Surfer+girls+find+nirvana+catching+waves+Tofino/10038462/story.html.

3.     See the website www.surfsister.com.

4.     See the website www.queenofthepeak.com.

5.     Nora Martin, “Kindergarten Students Build Their Surfing Skills,” Ha-Shilth-Sa, May 2, 2016, https://www.hashilthsa.com/news/2016-05-02/kindergarten-students-build-their-surfing-skills.

Leaving Ourselves in Others

1.     Sarah Petrescu, “Diverse Crowd Pays Tribute to Homeless Man Peter Verin,” Times Colonist, January 19, 2017, http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/diverse-crowd-pays-tribute-to-homeless-man-peter-verin-1.8063201.

2.     Sarah Petrescu, “Peter Verin, UVic’s Reluctant Philosopher King, Dies at 71,” Times Colonist, January 12, 2017, http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/peter-verin-uvic-s-reluctant-philosopherking-dies-at-71-1.7101837.

3.     Spotted in Victoria, November 19, 2014, “To the homeless man named Peter who is always around Quadra/Mckenzie area, shout out to you for being one of the most humble and Intelligent people I’ve ever talked to!” Facebook Post, https://www.facebook.com/spottedvictoria/posts/747862145251255, retrieved May 24, 2018.

4.     Petrescu, “Diverse Crowd Pays Tribute to Homeless Man Peter Verin.”

5.     Greg Pratt, “Post-secondary Staple Peter Verin Dies at 71,” Nexus, January 16, 2017, http://www.nexusnewspaper.com/2017/01/16/postsecondary staple-peter-verin-dies-at-71/.

Who Tells Our Story

1.     Dave Eggers, “Introduction,” The Autobiographer’s Handbook, Jennifer Traig (ed.) (New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2008), p. 8.

2.     Mark Medley, “Memoirist Revealed Residential-School Abuse,” The Globe and Mail, April 1, 2017, p. S18.

3.     Justice Institute of British Columbia, Working Together, Annual Report 08 09, http://www-files.jibc.ca/main/pdf/jibc-Annual-Report-08-09.pdf.

4.     Bruce Feiler, “The Stories That Bind Us,” The New York Times, March 15, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/fashion/the-family-stories-that-bind-us-this-life.html.

5.     Robert Brooks, “The Stories of Our Families: How Much Do We Truly Know?” Dr.RobertBrooks.com, November 21, 2013, http://www.drrobertbrooks.com/the-stories-of-our-families-how-much-do-we-truly-know/.

6.     See the website storycorps.org.

7.     See www.canada.ca/en/services/culture/history-heritage/genealogy-family-history.html.

8.     See their website, www.editors.ca.

9.     One online source is legacybox.com.

10.   Paul Alexander, Rough Magic (New York: Da Capo Press, 1999), p. 339.

11.   Diane Middlebrook, Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath—A Marriage (New York: Viking, 2003), p. 227.

12.   Ibid., p. 235.

13.   Alexander, Rough Magic, p. 252.

14.   Middlebrook, Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath—A Marriage, p. 232.

15.   Ibid., p. 237.

16.   Alexander, Rough Magic, p. 335.

17.   Ibid., p. 353.

18.   Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume 1: 1940 –1956, Peter K. Steinberg and Karen Kukil (eds.) (New York: HarperCollins, 2017).

19.   Middlebrook, Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath—A Marriage, p. xviii.

20.   Rachel Corbett, You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2016), p. 109.

21.   Ibid.

22.   Carole Gerson, “Maud’s Darkening Gables,” Literary Review of Canada, July/August 2017, p. 26.

23.   Brad Gooch, Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love (New York: HarperCollins, 2017), p. 86.

24.   Maria Tippett, Emily Carr: A Biography (Toronto: House of Anansi Press Inc., 1994), p. 280.

25.   Ibid., p. 303.

26.   Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr (Madeira Park, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2013), p. 298.

27.   Tippett, Emily Carr: A Biography, p. 153.

28.   Susan Crean (ed.), Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings (Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 2003), p. 2.

29.   Carol Pearson, Emily Carr As I Knew Her (Victoria, BC: TouchWood Editions, 2016), p. 153.

30.   Ibid., p. 12.

31.   Tippett, Emily Carr: A Biography, p. 274.

32.   Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr, p. 4.

33.   Ibid., p. 44.

34.   Ibid., p. 399.

35.   Ibid., p. 24.

36.   Ibid., p. 39.

37.   Ibid., p. 195.

38.   See the website deadsocial.org.

39.   Sprebas, December 2, 2012, Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die—Intro Speech, YouTube video file, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8wkeNDAGyM.

40.   BBC News, “Sir Terry Pratchett, Renowned Fantasy Author, Dies Aged 66,” bbc.com, March 12, 2015, http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31858156.

41.   Louise Lewis, “The Fiduciary Role,” STEP Journal, February 2018. STEP is the global professional association for practitioners who specialize in family inheritance and succession planning.

42.   BBC News, “Terry Pratchett’s Unpublished Works Crushed by Steamroller,” BBC.COM, August 30, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-41093066.

43.   Nick Bilton, “The Upside to Technology? It’s Personal,” The New York Times, March 30, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/fashion/social-media-technology.html.

44.   CBC Radio, “When His Father Died, This Technologist Created a Chatbot, so His Kids Could Talk to Their Grandfather,” cbc.ca, February 25, 2018, http://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/when-his-father-died-this-technologist-created-a-chatbot-so-his-kids-could-talk-to-theirgrandfather-1.4548924.

45.   James Vlahos, Interview by Lulu Garcia-Navarro, “Creating a ‘Dadbot’ to Talk with a Dead Father,” NPR Northwest Public Broadcasting, July 23, 2017, https://www.npr.org/2017/07/23/538825555/creating-a-dadbot-to-talk-with-a-dead-father.

46.   James Vlahos, “A Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality,” Wired, July 18, 2017, https://www.wired.com/story/a-sons-race-to-give-his-dying-father-artificial-immortality/.

47.   Hayley Tsukayama, “How the Tupac ‘Hologram’ Works,” The Washington Post, April 18, 2012, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/how-the-tupac-hologram-works/2012/04/18/gIQA1ZVyQT_story.html?utm_term=.11ec8cda40d6.

48.   TMZ, “Tupac’s Mom—Coachella Hologram was Frickin’ AMAZING” TMZ.COM, April 16, 2012, http://www.tmz.com/2012/04/16/tupac-mother-afeni-shakur-coachella-hologram/.

49.   Cathy Scott, “Rapper Tupac Shakur’s Digital Resurrection Gets Mixed Reviews,” Forbes.com, April 18, 2012, https://www.forbes.com/sites/crime/2012/04/18/rapper-tupac-shakurs-digital-resurrection-gets-mixed-reviews/#72d6cd9d4c7e.

50.   Rap-Up, “Tupac Shakur Inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame,” Rap-Up.com, April 8, 2017, http://www.rap-up.com/2017/04/08/tupac-shakur-inducted-into-rock-roll-hall-of-fame/.

51.   Lama Nachman, Interview by Laura Lynch, The Current, CBC Radio, March 20, 2018, http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-march-20-2018-1.4583785/meet-the-woman-who-saved-stephen-hawking-s-voice-and-then-gave-the-technology-away-to-those-in-need-1.4583922.

History Will Have Its Way with Us

1.     University of Victoria, June 2, 2017, Trutch Name to Be Removed from Residence, Press Release, https://www.uvic.ca/home/about/campus-news/2017+trutch-residence-renaming+ring.

2.     Cision, “The Beaver: Canada’s History Magazine Releases Results of ‘Worst Canadians’ Survey,” Newswire.ca, July 30, 2017, http://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/the-beaver-canadas-history-magazine-releases-results-of-worst-canadians-survey-534026251.html.

3.     YaleNews, “Yale Changes Calhoun College’s Name to Honor Grace Murray Hopper,” Yale University, February 11, 2017, http://news.yale.edu/2017/02/11/yale-change-calhoun-college-s-name-honor-grace-murray-hopper-0.

4.     Paul Waldie, “Queen’s Stripping Radler’s Name from Business Wing,” The Globe and Mail, September 21, 2005, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/queens-stripping-radlers-name-from-business-wing/article1124051/.

5.     Amisha Padnani, “How an Obits Project on Overlooked Women Was Born,” The New York Times, March 8, 2018, https://nyti.ms/2D9Mq4H.

6.     Raoul Peck, Interview by Tom Power, q, CBC Radio, February 24, 2017, http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/friday-feb-24-2017-raoul-peck-reginaldedmund-and-more-1.3995507/raoul-peck-brings-james-baldwin-s-powerful-gaze-to-the-big-screen-1.3995526.

7.     Darryl Pinckney, “Under the Spell of James Baldwin,” The New York Review of Books, March 23, 2017, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/03/23/under-spell-james-baldwin/.

8.     Devoney Looser, The Making of Jane Austen (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), p. 7.

9.     Paula Byrne, The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things (New York: HarperCollins, 2013), p. 6.

10.   Looser, The Making of Jane Austen, p. 3.

11.   Anthony Lane, “Last Laugh,” The New Yorker, March 13, 2017, p. 77.

Instructions from the Grave

1.     Jim Holt, “Two Brains Running,” The New York Times, November 25, 2011, https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/thinking-fast-and-slow-by-daniel-kahneman-book-review.html.

2.     Jean Blacklock and Sarah Kruger, The 50 Biggest Estate Planning Mistakes . . . and How to Avoid Them (Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada, 2011), p. 53.

3.     Ian Mulgrew, “Hollow Tree Friendship Leads to Inheritance Squabble,” Vancouver Sun, September 6, 2017, http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/ian-mulgrew-hollow-tree-friendship-leads-to-inheritance-squabble.

4.     Jon Hernandez, “What Eleanor Wanted: The Divisive ‘Last Will’ of a Hollow Tree Champion,” cbc.ca, September 23, 2017, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/what-eleanor-wanted-the-divisive-last-will-of-a-hollow-tree-champion-1.4298987.

5.     See http://www.bankofcanada.ca/unclaimed-balances/.

6.     Frances Backhouse, Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver (Toronto: ECW Press, 2015), p. 76.

7.     Ibid., p. 82.

8.     Ibid., p. 83.

9.     Lizzie Widdicombe, “Dem Bones,” The New Yorker, April 10, 2017, p. 18.

10.   Joshua Harmon wrote the play Bad Jews in 2011. The play has been performed around the world and has become one of the most produced plays in the United States. The quotations are from the Overlook Duckworth edition (New York, 2017).

11.   Ibid., p. 26.

12.   Marjo Johne, “Wealthy Canadians Cutting Children Out and Leaving Money to Charity,” The Globe and Mail, retrieved March 25, 2017, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/wealthy-canadians-cut-children-out-charities-in/article15561416/.

The Dubious Honour

1.     Max Brod, “Postscript to the First Edition (1925),” The Trial, Franz Kafka (New York: Schocken Books, 1992), p. 264.

2.     Ibid., p. 265.

3.     Ibid., p. 267.

4.     Ibid.

5.     Reiner Stach, Is That Kafka?: 99 Finds, translated by Kurt Beals (New York: New Directions Book, 2016), p. 132.

6.     Reiner Stach, Kafka: The Years of Insight, translated by Shelley Frisch (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013), p. 477.

7.     George Steiner, “Introduction,” in The Trial, Franz Kafka (New York: Schocken Books, 1992), p. vii.

8.     Paul Alexander, Death and Disaster: The Rise of the Warhol Empire and the Race for Andy’s Millions (New York: Random House, Inc., 1994), p. 244.

9.     Arthur C. Danto, Andy Warhol (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 47.

10.   Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (New York: Harper & Row, 1986), p. 29.

11.   Victor Bockris, The Life and Death of Andy Warhol (New York: Bantam Books, 1989), p. 238.

12.   Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again (New York: Harcourt, Inc., 1975), p. 92.

13.   Bockris, The Life and Death of Andy Warhol, p. 255.

14.   Alexander, Death and Disaster: The Rise of the Warhol Empire and the Race for Andy’s Millions, p. 155.

15.   Ibid., p. 219.

16.   See the website warholfoundation.org.

Giving Back

1.     For details on Canadian charitable donations and volunteer activities, see Martin Turcotte, Volunteering and Charitable Giving in Canada, Statistics Canada 89-652-X 2016, http://www.stacan.gc.ca/pub/89-652-x/89-652-x2015001-eng.htm.

2.     Terry Fox, Terry’s Letter Requesting Support, TerryFox.org, http://www.terryfox.org/terrys-story/terrys-letter/.

3.     The Terry Fox Foundation, “The Marathon of Hope,” TerryFox.org, http://www.terryfox.org/terrys-story/marathon-of-hope/.

4.     Tracy Gary, Inspired Philanthropy (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008), p. 10.

5.     The survey was conducted on behalf of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Foundation for Philanthropy–Canada by Ipsos. What Canadian Donors Want, http://www.afpnet.org/ResourceCenter/ArticleDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=36796.

6.     See the website www.imaginecanada.ca.

7.     See the website www.canadahelps.org.

8.     To download electronic versions of the worksheets and exercises, go to www.inspiredlegacies.org.

9.     Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015), p. 26.

10.   Ibid., p. 16.

11.   The Against Malaria Foundation provides funding for the distribution of insecticide-treated nets in developing countries, and the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative supports government-run deworming programs in low-income countries. See https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities.

12.   Malcolm Gladwell, interview by Tyler Cowen, Conversations, March 15, 2017, https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/malcolm-gladwell-podcast-outliers-tyler-cowen-3abdf99068ee. For a response to Gladwell’s general opposition to funding wealthy universities, see Mike Scutari, “The Sultan of Brunei? Really? Unpacking Malcolm Gladwell’s Latest Salvo Against Stanford,” Inside Philanthropy, https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2017/3/7/the-spokesman-for-effective-altruism-strikes-again-on-gladwells-slightly-misguided-attack-on-stanford.

13.   See the website communityfoundations.ca.

14.   See the website www.charityintelligence.ca. Another source of information is www.moneysense.ca, which provides ratings of the 100 largest charities using grade ratings for categories they label “charity efficiency” and “fundraising efficiency.”

15.   The authoritative source of information on charities is the Canada Revenue Agency website. You can search by charity name and/or registration number to obtain detailed information. See http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/ebci/haip/srch/advancedsearch-eng.action.

16.   Jean Blacklock and Sarah Kruger, The 50 Biggest Estate Planning Mistakes . . . and How to Avoid Them (Mississauga, ON: John Wiley & Sons Canada, 2011), p. 155.

17.   CanadaHelps, “Donate Securities and Mutual Funds through CanadaHelps,” CanadaHelps.org, https://www.canadahelps.org/en/why-canadahelps/ways-to-give/benefits-of-donating-securities/.

18.   KCI, “The Recognition Issue,” Philanthropic Trends Quarterly, 2012: Issue 4, http://kciphilanthropy.com/download_trends/KCI%20Trends%20English_Q4%202012.pdf.

19.   Michèle Benoit, The Personal Philanthropy Project, March 2017, p. 6.

20.   See the website www.imaginecanada.ca.

21.   Gary, Inspired Philanthropy, p. 241.

22.   The Giving Pledge, “History of the Pledge,” GivingPledge.org, https://givingpledge.org/About.aspx.

23.   Richard I. Kirkland Jr. and Carrie Gottlieb, “Should You Leave It All to the Children?” Fortune, September 29, 1986, http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/09/29/68098/index.htm. Buffett modified his thinking somewhat over the years and has made large donations to his children’s foundations to reward them for the way they’ve been managing their philanthropy.

24.   The Giving Pledge, “A Commitment to Philanthropy,” GivingPledge.org, https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=172.

25.   Rob Carrick, “How Helping Your Adult Kids Financially Became the New Normal,” The Globe and Mail, July 27, 2017, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/genymoney/how-helping-your-adult-kids-financially-became-the-new-normal/article35816506/.

26.   Marjo Johne, “Wealthy Canadians Cutting Children Out and Leaving Money to Charity,” The Globe and Mail, accessed March 25, 2017, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/wealthy-canadians-cut-children-out-charities-in/article15561416/.

27.   See the website www.socialventurepartners.org.

28.   See the website www.cleanstartbc.ca.

29.   See the website www.toniic.com. UBC’s Sauder School and SFU both have significant programs in this area. See http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/Faculty/Research_Centres/Centre_for_Social_Innovation_and_Impact_Investing and http://www.radiussfu.com/.

30.   See the website chimp.net.

31.   A comparison to setting up your own private foundation can be found at http://www.canadagives.ca/donor-advised-funds/your-foundation-choices/. A comparison to using a community foundation can be found at http://www.canadagives.ca/donor-advised-funds/comparison-of-community-foundations/.

Leaving a Piece of Ourselves

1.     A 2017 Age Wave/Merrill Lynch study posed the question “Which of the following are very important to pass on to your children or heirs?” Here are the percentage responses in each category: values and life lessons 62%, instructions and wishes to be fulfilled 53%, personal possessions of emotional value 43%, financial assets or real estate 32%. Age Wave/Merrill Lynch, “Finances in Retirement: New Challenges, New Solutions,” 2017, https://www.ml.com/articles/age-wave-survey.html.

2.     Daniel Gottlieb, Letters to Sam: A Grandfather’s Lessons on Love, Loss, and the Gifts of Life (New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 2006), p. 14.

3.     Ibid., p. 15.

4.     See http://dignityincare.ca/en/toolkit.html.

5.     Tracy Hanes, “Thinking of Her Son’s Future, Above All,” Toronto Star, October 15, 2010, p. L3.

6.     SecretValet, July 15, 2014, Video Message delivered in the future by SecretValet using an electronic time capsule, YouTube video file, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsCywQwspPQ.

7.     Paul Sullivan, “Digital Messages for Loved Ones from Beyond the Grave,” The New York Times, October 23, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/your-money/digital-messages-for-loved-ones-from-beyond-the-grave.html.

8.     Candy Schulman, “My Motherless Mother,” The New York Times, January 13, 2016, https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/my-motherless-mother/.

9.     See the website www.wpshc.com.

10.   Margareta Magnusson, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning (New York: Scribner, 2018), p. 4.

11.   Ibid., p. 104.

12.   See the website www.cantransplant.ca.

13.   See the website concussionfoundation.org.

14.   Dylan Matthews, “Why I Gave My Kidney to a Stranger—And Why You Should Consider Doing It Too,” Vox, April 11, 2017, https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/11/12716978/kidney-donation-dylan-matthews.

15.   germanrlopez, March 6, 2018, “Have to credit @dylanmatt for inspiring me to do this,” Tweet, https://twitter.com/germanrlopez/status/971129480084324352?lang=en. For information about organ donation in Canada, visit the website of the Kidney Foundation of Canada, https://www.kidney.ca. The website includes links to provincial organ donor registries.

16.   NYTDirect.com, “An estimated one in five adults in the United States have at least one tattoo,” Morning Briefing The New York Times, email received March 13, 2018.

17.   Charles Hamm, Interview by Shad, q, CBC Radio, October 15, 2015, http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-wednesday-october-7-1.3260084/tattoo-preservationist-makes-case-for-saving-skin-art-1.3260099.

18.   Reiss Smith, “What is cryogenics and how does freezing bodies work?” Express, November 18, 2016, https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/733717/What-is-cryogenics-how-does-freezing-dead-body-work.