My dad set an example of how to work yourself to death — and how not to

This First Person article is written by Taylor Maavara, who is a Canadian environmental scientist living in the U.K. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.

I found him again in Newfoundland. 

Cancer had forced my dad to cancel his trip in 2018 to photograph puffins. Dad had always been a photographer; it wasn’t his career, but it was his passion. So that’s why on a blustery August day in 2021, three months after he died, I lay on my belly on a clifftop on the edge of North America, my Toronto Blue Jays cap on backwards, glasses in my mouth, imitating one of Dad’s characteristic

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