Letters: Robert Munsch is writing his own ending

Robert Munsch and the arc of life

Re: Canadian icon Robert Munsch has chosen to die by MAID — Chris Knight, Sept. 15

Learning that beloved children’s author Robert Munsch has chosen to die at some point in the future using Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) may shock some, but it is not out of character. After all, Mortimer — whose name is partially derived from the Latin word meaning dead — was the boy who refused to go to sleep. In his first ever story, Munsch gave Mortimer the defiance to resist that “little death” we surrender to each night. Youth should resist. Life should be lived fully.

But now, the man who once celebrated the child who wouldn’t go to sleep has chosen, as author of his own life story, to embrace the “big sleep.” That’s the arc of life itself: what begins as a c