{"id":34988,"date":"2025-09-26T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/?p=34988"},"modified":"2025-09-26T23:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T23:28:35","slug":"what-can-we-say-to-a-famous-childrens-author-facing-alzheimers-diagnosis-who-is-contemplating-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/what-can-we-say-to-a-famous-childrens-author-facing-alzheimers-diagnosis-who-is-contemplating-assisted-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"What can we say to a famous children&#8217;s author, facing Alzheimer&#8217;s diagnosis, who is contemplating assisted suicide?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>By:  Dave Andrusko, originally published <a href=\"https:\/\/nrlc.org\/nrlnewstoday\/2025\/09\/what-can-we-say-to-a-famous-childrens-author-facing-alzheimers-diagnosis-who-is-contemplating-assisted-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">September 24, 2025, National Right to Life<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Back in 2014, Rai Rojas wrote a deeply touching story titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nrlc.org\/nrlnewstoday\/2014\/03\/ill-love-you-forever-ill-like-you-for-always-the-story-behind-robert-munschs-best-selling-childrens-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The story behind \u2018I\u2019ll love you forever, I\u2019ll like you for always,\u2019 Robert Munsch\u2019s classic children\u2019s story<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0All of us who have read Munsch\u2019s story can identify with the almost irresistible need to weep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">If you recall, as Leah Savas of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>World magazine<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reminds us today,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>The book begins with a mother rocking her baby and&nbsp;<\/em><em>singing to him,&nbsp;<\/em><em>\u201cI\u2019ll love you forever \/ I\u2019ll like you for always&nbsp;<\/em><em>\/ As long as I\u2019m living \/ my baby you\u2019ll be.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><em>It shows her&nbsp;<\/em><em>doing this through various stages of the boy\u2019s life until their<\/em><em>&nbsp;roles reverse at the end of the book. The final pages<\/em><em>&nbsp;depict the now-adult son holding his frail, old mother and&nbsp;<\/em><em>singing her a different version of the same song: \u201cI\u2019ll love&nbsp;<\/em><em>you forever \/ I\u2019ll like you for always \/ As long as I\u2019m living \/&nbsp;<\/em><em>my Mommy you\u2019ll be.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But Rai quoted from Munsch\u2019s webpage which explained the book\u2019s backstory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>\u201cI made that up after my wife and I had two babies born dead. The song was my song to my dead babies. For a long time I had it in my head and I couldn\u2019t even sing it because every time I tried to sing it I cried. It was very strange having a song in my head that I couldn\u2019t sing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>\u201cFor a long time it was just a song, but one day, while telling stories at a big theater at the University of Guelph, it occurred to me that I might be able to make a story around the song.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>\u201cOut popped \u2018Love You Forever\u2019 pretty much the way it is in the book.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"742\" src=\"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/I-love-you-forever.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-34990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/I-love-you-forever.jpg 740w, https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/I-love-you-forever-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/I-love-you-forever-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It moves me even today, as I thought back on reading it to my children. I recommend you read it before you read of the devastating news that facing an Alzheimer\u2019s diagnosis, Robert Munsch says he is contemplating assisted suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cHello, Doc \u2014 come kill me!\u201d the Canadian citizen joked to the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>. \u201cHow much time do I have? Fifteen seconds!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/14\/magazine\/robert-munsch-author-children-books-dementia.html?smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Munsch was interviewed<\/a>\u00a0by the\u00a0<em>New York Times\u2019<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0Katie Engelhart. The title of her profile (as you read it, you come away thinking that perhaps it was as much for her as her readers) was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/09\/14\/magazine\/robert-munsch-author-children-books-dementia.html?smid=url-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children\u2019s Book Writer<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Savas points her readers to a profoundly moving story written following the\u00a0<em>Times\u2019<\/em>\u00a0profile by\u00a0Amanda Achtman\u00a0at<em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2025\/09\/98925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Public Discourse<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>The title is \u201c<em>Will You Love Me Forever?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It is critically&nbsp;&nbsp;important to know that Achtman \u201chas worked on Parliament Hill in an effort to prevent the expansion of euthanasia to persons with living with disabilities or mental illness. Amanda works with Canadian Physicians for Life and teaches Catholic Bioethics at End of Life at St. Bernard\u2019s School of Theology and Ministry.\u201d She knows of what she speaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Love you forever<\/em>&nbsp;\u201cis a touching story of the natural circle of life and of the unconditional love for which we are made,\u201d Achtman writes. \u201cThis is one reason why many Canadians are shocked that the book\u2019s author, of all people, is saying he wants a doctor to end his life by euthanasia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>\u201cI have worked hard to overcome my problems, and I have done my best. I have attended twelve-step recovery meetings for more than 25 years,\u201d Munsch wrote in a note to parents on his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/robertmunsch.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">personal website<\/a>. \u201cMy mental health and addiction problems are not a secret to my friends and family. They have been a big support to me over the years, and I would not have been able to do this without their love and understanding.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Engelhart\u2019s article, Achtman writes, \u201cthen fixates on what Munsch can no longer do. He can no longer ride a bike, drive a car, and, particularly cruelly for an author, he can no longer read. Like the mother in his classic story, he himself has become old and sick. But, unlike her, he now is tempted to seek state-sponsored suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Achtman observes, in a way, how readers are let down (to put it selfishly) by \u201cschedul[ing] his death at the hands of a physician\u201d which \u201cwould contradict the message of unconditional love that he shared all those years ago, a message that resonated with hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of children and parents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But she makes us understand how suicide, assisted or otherwise, \u201cwould also contradict the support and understanding with which, thankfully, he was met throughout his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>When he faced depression and suicidal ideation, he got a psychiatrist. When he struggled with drugs and alcohol, he joined Narcotics and Alcoholics Anonymous. After he lost two children, he and his wife welcomed three through adoption. But now that he is elderly and asking for euthanasia, what is on offer? Why, only now, should there not be any antidote?\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It turns out that Munsch\u2019s thoughts are not new, according to one of his children. He \u201cdiscussed this with journalists four years ago upon receiving diagnoses of dementia and Parkinson\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Now, in&nbsp;The New York Times&nbsp;interview, he is admitting his deepening insecurities over having dementia, expressing his fear about becoming \u201ca turnip\u201d or \u201ca lump.\u201d The request for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) is a cry of the heart concerning self-worth and lovability. Now that he can no longer tell stories, which had always been such a key part of his identity, he is shaken and vulnerable. The request for euthanasia betrays a fundamental lack of self-esteem.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But, bringing us full circle, Achtman writes that&nbsp;<em>Love You Forever,<\/em>&nbsp;his most famous book of all,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>was actually inspired by the two children that he lost. On his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/robertmunsch.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">personal website<\/a>, Munsch\u2019s biography says that he wrote&nbsp;Love You Forever&nbsp;as a memorial for his two stillborn children, delivered in 1979 and 1980.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In a tragic way, these were<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>gifts that completely transformed him, that made him a father, that broke open his heart to that radical&nbsp;\u201cLove You Forever\u201d&nbsp;kind of love. These two children who never took a breath in this life have had an incalculably positive impact on the world by inspiring Munsch to write his book and encouraging readers to love one another, despite failures and weaknesses, through every season of life.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Achtman\u2019s conclusion reminds us of our fundamental interdependence, whether we are unborn children or very old and frail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>No matter what he suffers now, Robert Munsch will never be more vulnerable, more discreet, more unspoken than his stillborn children who inspired his bestselling book of all. In the universality of Robert Munsch\u2019s fears about dementia, we see the need to propose something other than death. It is time for someone else to continue the story with him still in it. Just as in the story, he needs someone to pick him up and rock him \u201cback and forth, back and forth, back and forth.\u201d Singing over him: \u201cI\u2019ll love you forever \/ I\u2019ll like you for always\/ As long as I\u2019m living \/ My [dear one] you\u2019ll be.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>If stillborn children could inspire one of the most-loved children\u2019s books in the twentieth century, then maybe a grandpa with dementia will inspire one of the best stories in the twenty-first.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>Dave Andrusko is Editor at National Right to Life News.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Dave Andrusko, originally published September 24, 2025, National Right to Life Back in 2014, Rai Rojas wrote a deeply touching story titled \u201cThe story behind \u2018I\u2019ll love you forever, I\u2019ll like you for always,\u2019 Robert Munsch\u2019s classic children\u2019s story.\u201d\u00a0All of us who have read Munsch\u2019s story can identify with the almost irresistible need to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What can we say to a famous children&#039;s author, facing Alzheimer&#039;s diagnosis, who is contemplating assisted suicide? 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