Leave a legacy for Diabetes Canada
Leaving your legacy by including a gift to Diabetes Canada in your will is an act that is generous, powerful and simple. This gift will reflect your values and makes a lasting impact on future generations.
"This is our way to do something for future generations and make a difference for the people after me."
- Cheryl Krueger
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Your future gifts will help us continue this important work. Every gift makes a difference, no matter what the size.
Gift in your will (bequest)
No matter the size, every gift in a will helps to realize our shared vision of a world free from diabetes.
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Securities
Making a gift of stocks, bonds, mutual funds or flow-through shares provides a gift to support diabetes research, education, services and advocacy.
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Registered retirement funds
Retain ownership and use of RRSPs, RRIFs and TFSAs during your lifetime while helping Diabetes Canada in future.
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Life Insurance
A gift through life insurance provides a way for you to make a more substantial gift t at a relatively low cost.
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i don't want other mothers to live in
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fear like i do
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there isn't a moment
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of a day that doesn't go by that i'm not
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thinking about how mark's doing when
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he's not at home
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what he's doing
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how he's managing
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it's not what you want to be faced with
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because it absolutely is
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life-threatening
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he had a friend over and they
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said you know i don't i don't know what
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mark's
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doing he's talking
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you know nonsense he's sweating
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mark was in bed
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but he was
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incoherent he couldn't put any sentences
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together he didn't understand what we
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were doing
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we were just
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you know kind of holding him propping
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him up there wasn't anything else that
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we could physically do for him at home
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i ended up just calling 9-1-1 at that
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point
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it's horrible to think that you can lose
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your child
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we're just so thankful that his friend
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was there
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to alert us
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to the situation
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if if they weren't there we would have
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lost them that day
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please donate to diabetes canada to fund
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life-saving research
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For more information:
Kate Hicks
Senior Manager, Planned Giving
1-800-BANTING, ext. 5577 or 416-408-5577
kate.hicks@diabetes.ca
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