The Fifth Estate
Season 38 Episode 5 - The Life and Death of Gloria Taylor
Diagnosed with ALS, one woman's public fight to meet death on her own terms. Gloria Taylor was the first Canadian ever to win the right to ask a doctor for help in dying, when and how and where she wished. "The Life and Death of Gloria Taylor" documents her struggle with mortality as she fights publicly to change the law over the course of what would be the last year of her life. Doomed by ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Gloria Taylor became dependent on medical technology. Her fight for life was futile, and she could only hope for what she called a dignified ending. the fifth estate's Linden MacIntyre first met her more than a year ago as she battled with a disease that has no cure, and had just begun another struggle in British Columbia's Supreme Court to have the right to decide the time and manner of her death. She agreed to let the fifth estate follow her throughout that struggle, the private highs and lows, and the personal indignities throughout the final year of her life.
Episodes in Season 38
Into The Death Zone
60 min
Kingston Pen: Secrets and Lies
60 min
Runaway Fighter
60 min
The Widow's Web
60 min
The Life and Death of Gloria Taylor
60 min
Whistleblowers: Moment of Truth
60 min
Lost In The Struggle: The Next Chapter
60 min
Lucky 7
60 min
The Elephant in the Room
60 min
Left for Dead
60 min
Lance Armstrong: Master of Spin
60 min
Hunting Magnotta
60 min
Costa Concordia: The Captain's Tale
60 min
The Imperfect Spy
60 min
The Last Race
60 min
Target Bin Laden
60 min
Crossfire
60 min
The Unrepentant
60 min
The Vanishing
60 min
Second Wave
60 min
Ironman
60 min
Mission Improbable
60 min
Rate My Hospital
60 min
