Observing Healthcare With Mary in Her Final Weeks of Life.

Abstract

Early in the year 2024, my mother, Mary V. Seeman (MD, DSc, OC, FRCPC), received news that would recognize her lifelong goal, which was to humanize and empower some of the most stigmatized members of society - the severely mentally ill and their parents and, in particular, their mothers. The American Psychiatric Association had chosen to honour her with the 2024 Adolf Meyer Lifetime Achievement Award, a prestigious tribute to her life's work in improving women's mental health. This accolade arrived in her e-mail in January; she died three months later, on April 23, 2024.